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Israeli ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor (UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras

Israel’s UN ambassador puts another nail in the two-state coffin

‘Imagine the type of state [Palestinian] society would produce. Does the Middle East really need another terror-ocracy?’ Prosor said in a speech on Monday. In recent years Israeli government officials have learned that rejecting the rights of Palestinians should always go hand-in-hand with a verbal commitment to the creation of a Palestinian state. But the…

By Noam Sheizaf November 25, 2014

Solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on Republican walls (Haggai Matar)

Lessons for a fruitful peace process from Northern Ireland

Achieving genuine conflict resolution requires a dedicated approach that incorporates building trust and relationships between communities from opposing sides of a deeply divided society. Lessons for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process from Northern Ireland. By Gary Spedding Israeli and Palestinian flags are frequently seen flying in Northern Ireland, often in Loyalist and Republican areas respectively. This…

By +972 Magazine May 18, 2013

Maale Adumim settlement near east of Jerusalem (Activestills.org)

Palestinian President Abbas: The only leader fighting for the Jewish state

Following the United Nations vote to recognize Palestine as a non-member observer state, Israel quickly announced it would reignite construction in the E1 area of the West Bank, long considered by the U.S. as the last nail in the coffin of the two-state solution. The move is not only Israel’s affront to the two-state solution,…

By Mairav Zonszein December 2, 2012

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Israeli Amb. to UN: Assad ‘has no moral authority to govern’

In an address to the UN General Assembly on Monday, Israel’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Ron Prosor, called on the international community to intervene in Syria to stop the systematic murder of civilians, breaking what has been mostly silence from Israel on the situation there. According to Prosor, “No decent human being can ignore…

By Mairav Zonszein February 15, 2012

Israel’s two-faced policy regarding American Jews

A couple of news items, published on the same evening, reveal what Israel’s government really thinks of American Jews. Israel’s new ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, has met Jewish leaders in New York and—for lack of a better word—ordered them to join Jerusalem’s diplomatic moves against the Palestinian leadership. This is from Haaretz (my…

By Noam Sheizaf June 22, 2011

September: The rules of the game have already changed

Israel’s new ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, gave a fumbling interview to Haaretz, illustrating the panic growing in Israeli diplomatic circles ahead of September. The vote won’t bring the Palestinians a state – but rules of the game have plainly already changed, before the vote even happened. The summer will be spent largely aligning…

By Dimi Reider June 19, 2011