OK, Binyamin Netanyahu said the magic words “Palestinian state,” now what? I want to give our prime minister the benefit of doubt and say that he even meant it; at least that is what he told US President Barack Obama. Where do we go from here? How do those words become transformed into reality? Let’s try to imagine.


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An Imposed Solution – perhaps the only way to move forward(0)

The opportunity for making a strategic change in the Israeli-Palestinian relation is here and now, despite the fact that it cannot be done by traditional means. There is close to zero chance of a bilateral negotiated Israeli-Palestinian agreement at this time given the political constellations both in Israel and in Palestine.


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Pushing an alternative Palestinian-Israeli peace plan(0)

Over the years peace plans have been emerging on the Middle East peace track, yet most of them were dismissed by both Israelis and Palestinians.

The latest one came out of the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI), a group jointly run by Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin and Palestinian lawmaker Hanna Siniora.


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Encountering Peace: What Netanyahu’s peace initiative must say(0)

US President Barack Obama’s Cairo speech and subsequent remarks by him and other senior US officials have made it clear beyond any doubt that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is two states for two peoples. There is no other solution. Today only three countries in the world are in opposition to it: Iran, Libya and Israel.


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