Insights
The Peace Bridge
No one is deluded enough to believe that the Arab parties running on a single list means that there is real unity among them.
No one is deluded enough to believe that the Arab parties running on a single list means that there is real unity among them.
Any Israeli-Palestinian agreement must be based on the principles of mistrust and therefore must include enough safeguards to ensure implementation and to protect our vital national security needs.
If the politicians fail to address how they will make peace with the Palestinians, then they must be demanded to state how they plan to continue to control them and the territories, how they plan to continue to deny the Palestinians the right of self-determination.
Netanyahu is constantly reminding us of all of the threats that surround us.
Israel needs a world class statesman, not another small “p” politician.
Ghazi Hamad, deputy foreign minister of Hamas, responded to an appeal by Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin to negotiate the release of Gilad Shalit. For three months, Hamad conveyed messages from the Hamas government to then-prime minister Ehud Olmert, through Baskin and Olmert’s daughter Dana.