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Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (Beautiful Faces of Palestine/CC BY NC ND 2.0)
World Bank report obscures nature of Palestinian economic crisis
Why does Prime Minister Fayyad wish to ‘improve’ the Paris Protocols, despite the severe limitations that it imposes on the PA’s ability to choose their own economic regime and adopt trade policies?  By Neve Gordon Triggered by gas-price increases, tens of thousands of Palestinian taxi, truck and bus drivers in the West Bank observed a…
By +972 Magazine September 27, 2012
It’s time the US talked to Hamas
The positive reports coming out of the Israeli-American-Palestinian summit in Sharm el Sheikh– like those which came from Washington a week earlier – shouldn’t surprise anyone. There is a strange dynamic to these talks: both sides present an optimistic smile to the world and a hawkish, pessimistic face at home. As both recent polls and…
By Noam Sheizaf September 14, 2010
US media more excited about peace talks than Israelis and Palestinians
Take a look at today’s front pages shown here. The one on the left is Yedioth Ahronoth’s, Israel’s leading tabloid. On the right is the New York Post. Yedioth’s top story reads “wave of terrorism,” referring to the two shooting attacks carried out by Hamas militants against settlers in the last 48 hours. On the…
By Noam Sheizaf September 2, 2010
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