Most Israelis and Palestinians support a two-state solution (JNS.org) The majority of Israelis and Palestinians still support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a new survey by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. The Palestinian-Israeli Pulse poll surveyed 1,270 Palestinians and 1,184 Israelis on […]
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Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The international conference that was convened by France on June 3rd in Paris to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process ended up without concretely establishing specific measures that would persuade both parties to resume negotiations in order to reach a peace agreement. The joint communiqué issued following the conference stated “The
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USAEgyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin informed him that he is ready to host direct talks between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Speaking in an interview with Egyptian journalists and quoted by Yedioth Ahronoth, the Egyptian president said Israeli convictions of peace are
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International, Middle EastJust two days after the Turkish parliament ratified an agreement aimed at normalizing relations between Turkey and Israel, the Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly criticized Israel’s strikes on Gaza in response to yesterday’s attack on Sderot, when a rocket was shot into the city from Gaza. “Normalization of relations with Israel does not mean that we
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Middle EastA senior IDF official reported Monday morning that Israel struck dozens of Hamas targets inside the Gaza Strip overnight, in response to rocket fire on Sunday which hit the southern Israeli town of Sderot, damaging a kindergarten. Despite the Hamas attacks and Israel”s retaliation, the official emphasized that Israel is not interested in escalating the
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Middle EastDid Colin Powell suggest that Hillary Clinton should use her private email account as secretary of state—as he had admittedly done in that same job several years earlier? Last week, The New York Times confirmed that Powell did offer her precisely that advice, based on an account in my forthcoming book on Bill Clinton’s post-presidency.
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USAFormer State Department Deputy Chief of Staff and senior Clinton confidant Huma Abedin worked for more than a decade at a stridently Islamist journal which opposed women”s rights and blamed the United States for the 9/11 terror attacks, the New York Post reported on Sunday. For more than a decade, Abedin was listed as the
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International, USAPhilippines police announced Monday that 1,800 people have died in drug-related killings since President Rodrigo Duterte took power on June 30. This figure, police said, includes 712 drug traffickers and users killed during various narcotics operations. The remaining deaths occurred outside normal police work. The announcement comes the day after Duterte held a news conference
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InternationalJordan signed a grant agreement on Monday with the U.S., Britain, Norway and Switzerland that will provide the Arab nation with $100 million to help place Syrian refugee children in school. The country, which is home to over 600,000 displaced Syrian refugees, accommodated 145,000 Syrian children in schools during the previous academic year. Even so,
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationLondon’s Buckingham Palace opened a unique and unprecedented new exhibition celebrating 90 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s style. For museumlifestyle WWecker writes about three amazing exhibitions about the dresses and the style of The Queen https://t.co/HlSO2PrnZI— MusErMeKu Blog (@musermeku) August 19, 2016 British Couture Staged at the Summer Opening of the State Rooms at the
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International, Travel and FoodChinese players celebrate winning the gold medal in women’s volleyball after beating Serbia 3:1 in Rio de Janeiro on Aug 20, 2016. [Photo by Wei Xiaohao/chinadaily.com.cn] China beat Serbia to win its third women’s volleyball gold medal in Olympic Games on Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, 12 years after the team clinched the title in
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International, Sports & CompetitionsFrom left, Lydia Ko of New Zealand holds her silver medal, Inbee Park of the ROK holds her gold medal and Feng Shanshan of China holds her bronze medal following women’s Olympic golf competition in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. [Photo/Agencies] RIO DE JANEIRO — Feng Shanshan clinched the first medal for Chinese golfers at
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International, Sports & CompetitionsThe Rio Games had their highlights, but they were also the most testing for the Olympic movement, and end with only a handful of stars having made their mark – led by Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps. Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – The Rio Olympics closed on a wet and stormy Sunday and will go
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAWhen a drum containing radioactive waste blew up in an underground nuclear dump in New Mexico two years ago, the Energy Department rushed to quell concerns in the Carlsbad desert community and quickly reported progress on resuming operations. The early federal statements gave no hint that the blast had caused massive long-term damage to the
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