Word: palestinians
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Israel: Little Help from Bibi President Obama believes it is critical to wider U.S. interests across the Middle East to urgently implement a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Indeed, he believes it is vital to Israel's own interest, even as the clock runs out on the viability of such a solution. However, Israel's new prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sees things differently. Netanyahu has until now resisted the idea of an independent Palestinian state, arguing that the Palestinians should enjoy self-governance but without full sovereignty, because that would put Israel at risk. Anyway, he argues...
Netanyahu says he wants peace with the Palestinians, but he sees the immediate priority as strengthening economic development and the security capability of the Palestinian Authority. Even that, however, is of secondary importance for the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu sees the overwhelming priority of both Israel and the U.S. as Iran, and he has made stopping Tehran's nuclear program his overarching priority. Defanging Iran, his aides argue, is also the key to any progress with the Palestinians, because the Israelis claim that Hamas is nothing more than an Iranian proxy. And while the Obama Administration has begun unfurling...
...Effie Eitam of the National Religious Party is another proponent of expulsion. He derided Palestinian citizens of Israel as a “fifth column,” “ticking bomb,” and “cancer.” Nevertheless, these views did not prevent the former general from being appointed as a minister of national infrastructure in 2002 and of housing from...
...monkey. In the 2006 and 2008 U.S. congressional and presidential elections, American voters signaled a desire to transcend a history of Jim Crow discrimination. In Israel, however, the country is on an opposite track with careers buoyed by bigotry directed at the country’s Palestinian minority...
Nimer Sultany is an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School. He is a Palestinian citizen of Israel...