JERUSALEM -- Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met for the third time this month in Jordan. The talks began Saturday night and continued for several hours according to reports. The sides agreed to meet again on Jan. 25, according to Palestinian sources,...
NEW YORK - Noam Shalit, the father of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, wants his son's plight to be part of the discussion of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations in September.In his view, Shalit's release should be a precondition of any vote...
The Palestinian Authority is using a year-old qualified statement by President Obama in a campaign for support for its statehood recognition bid. "When we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that can lead to a new member of the United...
The writers of Superman comics coined it in 1960, and Jerry Seinfeld (a huge Man of Steel fan) borrowed it - the notion of a "Bizarro World" where black means white, up means down, right means wrong.Now we're witnessing an entirely new take on Bizarro...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA, NEW YORK
• Published August 17, 2011
On Sept. 20, when the annual session of the U.N. General Assembly opens, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to ask U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to present a Palestinian request for statehood recognition to the U.N. Security...
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...
BY REPPS HUDSON, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published June 8, 2011
If anyone still has questions about how Israel has lost the public relations campaign against the Palestinians, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin explain in non-judgmental prose what has happened since 2000 to isolate the Jewish state. In the introduction...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, WASHINGTON
• Published May 25, 2011
Let's get past this U.S.-Israel relationship thing, so we can get on with important stuff, like the U.S.-Israel relationship.That seemed to be the message this week at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.With a...
In Texas Hold ‘Em parlance, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has gone all in. In his Monday opinion piece in the New York Times, Abbas has said to the world that the future of Israel doesn't matter one iota. In essence, he's proven that...
Let's do some logic:FACT A: Before the exceptional United States Special Forces mission that led to the slaying of Osama bin Laden, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas reached a historic agreement about cooperation.FACT A-1: Hamas does not renounce violence...
One of the most powerful and memorable books I ever read was "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett, which provides glimpses into the relationships between black and white women in 1962 Mississippi. After I finished the book, I spent a lot of time thinking about...
