Netanyahu as a statesman needs to reshuffle his cabinet. He needs to approach Livni and propose to her that Kadima replace Israel Beiteinu.


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Tikkun Magazine: An American Peace Initiative: (Is there a nice way of saying “an imposed solution”?)(0)

There is more liveliness today on the streets of Ramallah (above) and in the West Bank in general-a new energy that presages either real movement forward on the peace agenda or a new explosion of violence. Gershon Baskin lays out what Obama needs to do to help ensure it is the former.


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Encountering Peace: Change in Gaza is possible(0)

hirty-nine young people from Gaza applied to attend a peace education workshop sponsored by the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information that was held this past weekend in a school in Beit Jala. Thirty-five of them were denied entry by the IDF and did not have the opportunity to join the 70 other Israelis and Palestinians who spent the weekend in dialogue, debate, disagreement and agreement, rejoicing in the mutual recognition that we all want peace and that peace is possible.


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Encountering Peace: 2 capitals for 2 states for 2 peoples(0)

Not one country in the world recognizes our capital, Jerusalem, as the capital of Israel. Even the United States footnotes the following on the State Department Web page: Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950. The US, like nearly all other countries, maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv. UN Security Council Resolution 478 declared the 1980 Jerusalem Law that declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s “eternal and indivisible” capital null and void, affirming that it was a violation of international law.


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