Word: palestinians
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Indeed, if anyone is to bring peace and an end to Israeli-Palestinian violence it is men like Professor Finkelstein and President Jimmy Carter who have the guts to point out some atrocious policies and human rights violations that Israel has and continues to conduct. Indeed if Israel has no regard for the human rights of its neighbors, the spiral of violence, the constant reproduction of vengeance for lost lives on both sides, will never end. Only with restraint and cooperation, from both sides, can there be peace, and that was precisely the final message of Finkelstein?...
...optimistic the government will open a new era," said Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday, after announcing that he and President Mahmoud Abbas had finally reached agreement on the composition of a new Palestinian government. That Palestinians would seek a new era is not surprising: It's been a long, hard, often bloody year in the Palestinian territories, with recent spasms of internal violence threatening to devolve into all-out anarchy. But Hamas's Haniyeh and Abbas, who heads the rival Fatah organization, emerged from a final flurry of meetings in Gaza City with a deal...
...similar to ours,” said Jaclyn B. Granick ’08, Chair of the Operating Committee of the Progressive Jewish Alliance. “We support LGBT rights and we also support a truly democratic state in Israel which includes rights for both Israelis and Palestinians,” she said. A two percent minority in Israel, Bedouins often inhabit villages in the Negev area that are not officially recognized by Israeli government, said El-Sana. He said that the absence of recognition causes many problems in local infrastructure, including lack of tap-water, electricity, health centers...
...going to let them sell us out as Fatah sold out its fighters" with the Oslo Agreement in 1993, when Arafat formally recognized Israel. (In the past year, kidnapped reporters have mostly been released within a matter of days, though a team from Fox was held for two weeks; Palestinian authorities have said they are searching without pause for Johnston...
...more militant jihadis in Hamas may well have been emboldened by criticism Sunday of the Hamas political leadership by Ayman al Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's chief ideologue, who said they were surrendering the dream of the Palestinian people to preserve their place in an ineffectual government. Several Hamas leaders fired back, but there now exists the curious coincidence of Zawahiri wanting the same thing Olmert and President Bush (and many members of Fatah) want, which is for Hamas to fall apart. Abbas and Haniyeh may be able to solve the immediate issues before them, and succeed in announcing...