WASHINGTON -- Conflicting voices for and against renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks came to Capitol Hill as leading pro- and anti-voices gathered to recall the nearly 20 years since the dramatic signing of the Oslo Accords. The Oslo document, signed...
By Leslie Susser, JTA, Jerusalem
• Published June 22, 2011
The pressure on Mahmoud Abbas to back down from plans to seek recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations in September is intensifying.Squeezed by a combination of concerted American pressure and intense Israeli diplomacy, some top Palestinian...
