Last weekend, the 14th conference by Democracy Today was held in Yerevan, Armenia, titled "From Global Insecurity to Common Security - Women's Role in Peacemaking."
‘We willingly relinquished our fiscal rights in order to buy peace, but we are not getting what we are paying for,’ says Maurice Hirsch, Director of the Initiative for Palestinian Authority
While officials hold an annual commemoration for Rabin on Mount Herzl, the surviving family of the visionary told Ynet they were requesting that this year’s be cancelled due to the war.
In a reflection on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the writer delves into the numerous peace initiatives that have been proposed and consistently rejected by Arab and Palestinian leaders.
A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.
Prime Minister Netanyahu criticized the defense establishment as naive leftists, accusing them of underestimating diplomatic pressure related to the Philadelphi Corridor in his speech.
Israel publicly declaring the desire for diplomacy instead of war might seem like a prudent way to avoid unnecessary conflict with the West.
Oslo had warned Israel that its decision to revoke diplomatic status of Norwegian officials working with the Palestinian Authority would harm ties between the two countries.
'I believe that there is much to be learned from the insights and achievements of the Rabin government some 30 years ago', the author says.
At the very start of the Zionist enterprise in the 1880s, the two parties to what is now called “the Palestinian-Israeli conflict” developed distinctive and enduring attitudes toward each other.
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