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Haaretz credit box, November 5th 1995
Rabin’s murder and the paper that was never published
A page has emerged from Haaretz’s daily op-ed pages, printed before the murder but never distributed; strangely enough, the coverage of GOP-Likud relations in a piece in the page remains as relevant as ever. Yesterday was the 17th anniversary of the murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin’s right-wing assassin, a law student from Bar-Ilan…
By Noam Sheizaf November 5, 2012
Direct negotiations: Recipe for prolonging the occupation
The unequal dynamic in the negotiating room guarantees that neither peace nor justice will come out of direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said this week that without a complete settlement freeze, talks with Israel will not resume. In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “Abbas has turned his…
By Noam Sheizaf February 13, 2012
Haaretz’s pundit takes on US envoy Ross for aiding Netanyahu
Akiva Eldar, an expert on the peace process, avid supporter of the two-states solution and author of “Lords of the Land,” a history of the Israeli settlement project, harshly criticizes the White House’s envoy to the Middle East, Dennis Ross, for backing the demands of an extreme rightwing Israeli government. In an Haaretz article, Eldar…
By Noam Sheizaf July 4, 2011
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US administration covering up for Netanyahu?
According to Haaretz’s Akiva Eldar, Obama’s administration is refusing to reveal what happened in the negotiations with Israel and the Palestinians, probably in order not to embarrass Jerusalem: The U.S. president is sticking to his refusal to declare that the negotiations be based on the 1967 borders. Moreover, the Americans are refraining from issuing any…
By Noam Sheizaf January 17, 2011
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