Imagine if Palestinian and Israeli kids took over the peace process
The future would look very different if we put the peace process in the hands of Palestinian and Israeli children.
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Unfinished peace overtures between Israel and Egypt
The Band’s Visit shows an Egyptian police orchestra striking a chord with the locals after getting hopelessly lost in Israel.
Read MoreA civil solution to the Palestinian struggle
If the Annapolis peace conference fails, then Palestinians should abandon their national struggle and demand their civil rights from Israel.
Read MoreMadrid II: Towards a civil peace in the Middle East
Prompted by the dire situation in Gaza, Spain, France and Italy have floated an unexpected Middle East peace drive. This initiative will almost certainly join other similar aborted road maps and peace plans slowly decaying in the graveyard of international diplomacy. What the EU needs to do is to organise a high-profile Madrid II conference to set in motion a ‘people’s peace process’.
Read MoreShould Israel be offered virtual membership to the EU club?
The European Commission has come out in favour of the EU enhancing its economic and political ties with Israel. But critics question the wisdom of extending a policy of good neighbourliness to a country that has done little to make the neighbourhood safer.
Read MoreEU sticks with Middle East road map amid uncertainty in Israel
The collapse of the ‘national unity’ government in Israel has sparked fears in EU corridors that a hardening of Israeli politics could further endanger the prospects for a peaceful resolution of the two-year-old bloody conflict with the Palestinians.
Read MoreEU should stay out of Middle East peace process, insists Israeli diplomat
The European Union should confine itself to supervising reforms in the Palestinian Authority rather than trying to play a central role in the Middle East peace process, according to a senior Israeli cabinet advisor.
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