No new offers from Israel, Abbas says
admin | January 12, 2012
Israel has made no new proposals in meetings with Palestinians about the possibility of resuming formal peace talks, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday.
"The future is ours," says Hamas Gaza leader
admin | January 9, 2012
GAZA (Reuters) – The coming rise of Islamism in the Arab world will strengthen support for the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which will not give up its armed confrontation with Israel, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahar said Monday. If Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas bets on peace talks with Israel rather than reconciling his Fatah movement with Hamas, he will lose …
Fatah, Hamas Seek Gains in a Reshaped Middle East
admin | January 6, 2012
Representatives of the rival factions Fatah and Hamas are pursuing contrasting approaches to building support for the Palestinian cause, with Fatah engaged in apparently fruitless peace talks with Israel while Hamas’ leader pays visits to newly empowered Islamist governments across the region.
Hamas condemns Palestine-Israeli peace talks
admin | January 4, 2012
Palestinian radical movement, Hamas criticized on Wednesday a recent Palestine-Israeli peace talks in Jordan, calling it “a strike on Hamas-Fatah rapprochement,” RIA Novosti reported.
Palestine and Israel Meet for Talks in Jordan
admin | January 4, 2012
Palestine and Israel have agreed to meet in Jordan for their first talk in over one year. Analysts are skeptical as to whether the countries will be able to move forward in peace talks.
Palestinians warn of ‘new measures’ if talks fail
admin | January 3, 2012
RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Palestinian president on Tuesday threatened to take “new measures” against Israel if a much-anticipated meeting in Jordan fails to bring about a resumption of peace talks.
Israel says European U.N. states’ criticism is wrong
admin | December 21, 2011
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel Wednesday said four European U.N. Security Council members should support a resumption of stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks because their criticism of the Jewish state could sideline them from negotiations. Tuesday, representatives of Britain, France, Germany and Portugal said a briefing by U.N
Israel seeks builders for over 1,000 settler homes
admin | December 18, 2011
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel began seeking tenders to build more than 1,000 homes in the occupied West Bank Sunday, part of a settlement plan it accelerated after Palestinians won recognition by a U.N. body, but a move which complicates a return to negotiations. Palestinians have conditioned a return to peace talks on a freeze to settlement building
EU concerned over Israel’s Arab minority: report
admin | December 16, 2011
EU ambassadors in Israel are concerned over Israel’s treatment of its Arab minority and about poor prospects for relaunching peace talks with the Palestinians, according to a working paper disclosed by daily newspaper Haaretz on Friday.
Israel blames Palestinians for peace stalemate
admin | December 3, 2011
Israel on Saturday blamed the Palestinians for stalled peace talks, in a rebuttal to US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta who said the Jewish state must take concrete steps to revive the process.
