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Arab-Israeli Conflict

The region's only democracy is also its geopolitical lightening rod

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September 2008
- Olmert: Israel Must Leave West Bank
  
  Haaretz (Israel) | Sep 29, 08 7:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Israel must give up nearly all the land it seized in 1967 to forge peace with the Palestinians, said outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The nation must relinquish most of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights—or compensate the Palestinians and Syrians with Israeli territory, said Olmert, who announced his resignation last week. "In the end, we will have to withdraw from the most decisive areas," he said More »
- Holy Season for Two Faiths Intersects in Jerusalem
  
  New York Times | Sep 29, 08 11:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - This year’s intersection of Jewish new-year holidays and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan—a rarity due to Islam’s changing calendar—is felt particularly keenly in Jerusalem, a sacred city for both religions, Ethan Bronner notes in the New York Times . Night has become “a kind of monotheistic traffic jam,” with devout Jews praying at the Western Wall while Muslims break their fast. More »
- Radical Settlers Fight Palestine —and Israel
  
  New York Times | Sep 26, 08 10:17 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A pipe bomb exploded Wednesday night outside the Jerusalem home of a dovish Israeli professor—where authorities also found fliers promising a $300,000 reward to anyone who killed members of a leftist advocacy group. The attack is the latest sign that right-wing settlers are resorting to extremist tactics to show the Israeli government that they will not be removed from their settlements in the West Bank, the New York Times reports. More »
- Bush Blocked Israel Attack on Iran
  
  Guardian (UK) | Sep 26, 08 3:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Israel asked Washington for a green light to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities but was told no, reports the Guardian . Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made the request in a private meeting with President Bush in May, but Bush feared air strikes over several days would lead to full-scale war and terrorist attacks in the US. More »
- Livni Nods to Peace Amid Political Talks
  
  Associated Press | Sep 23, 08 3:12 PM CDT
  
  (AP) - Israel's prime minister-designate took a break from her efforts to form a new government today to meet with the chief Palestinian peace negotiator, signaling she will keep negotiations going despite the country's political uncertainty. Tzipi Livni and the Palestinian negotiator, Ahmed Qureia, have met regularly since peace talks formally relaunched at a US-hosted summit last November. More »
August 2008
- Israeli Divorce Spurs Debate Over Who Is Jewish
  
  Washington Post | Aug 30, 08 7:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A divorce ruling in Israel has thrown thousands of Jewish conversions into question and sparked a debate over who is really Jewish, the Washington Post reports. Ultra-Orthodox rabbis, who frame one side of the dispute, refused to let a Jewish convert divorce last year, saying she was never married because she did not observe Jewish law. "I was in shock," she said. "I couldn't believe it." More »
- Israel Releases 198 Palestinians
  
  AFP | Aug 25, 08 9:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Israel today released 198 Palestinian prisoners in an effort to bolster Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, the AFP reports. The release, on the eve of a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, included two prisoners held since the late 1970s who were convicted of murdering Israelis. One of them, a Fatah party member who killed an Israeli settler in Hebron, was elected to parliament in 2006. More »
- Ahmadinejad Says Israel to Be 'Removed Soon'
  
  Associated Press | Aug 20, 08 2:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel “a germ of corruption” to be “removed soon” in comments on his presidential website today, the AP reports. While the outburst is nothing new for the Iranian leader, the posts were probably meant to reassure hawks enraged by the vice president’s comments last week that Iranians are “friends of all people in the world—even Israelis.” More »
- Why No Arab Rage Over Darfur?
  
  New Republic | Aug 15, 08 7:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Israel's wrongs against Palestine are "minor" compared to other modern conflicts—yet Arab leaders continue to cry bloody murder over Palestine while ignoring and covering up atrocities in Darfur, writes Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic . Darfur "does not trouble the conscience of Islam," Peretz writes. "They are otherwise engaged in the hyper-drama of Palestine." More »
- Olmert Proposes New West Bank, Gaza Borders
  
  Haaretz | Aug 12, 08 11:26 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Ehud Olmert has presented Mahmoud Abbas with a plan to withdraw from most of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip once the Palestinian Authority retakes Gaza from Hamas. The centerpiece of the proposal is a new permanent border that would keep 7% of the West Bank in Israel in exchange for adding some territory to Gaza. Abbas immediately rejected the proposal because it doesn't create a contiguous Palestinian state, though it offers passage without checkpoints between the West Bank and Gaza. More »
- Olmert Move Clouds Future of Peace Deal
  
  New York Times | Aug 1, 08 7:50 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - State Department officials are putting on a brave face in the wake of Ehud Olmert's resignation announcement, saying that the departure of Israel's PM will not forestall a peace agreement. But as the New York Times reports, most Middle East observers believe that Olmert's move signals the end of the Bush efforts to broker a deal. One analyst said simply, "It's over." More »
July 2008
- Who Will Replace Olmert?
  
  Guardian (UK) | Jul 30, 08 3:41 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Who will succeed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert when he resigns in 2 months? Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, known as "Mrs. Clean," is a top candidate and would likely engage Palestine in peace talks, Ian Black writes in the Guardian . Challenging her will be hawkish Shaul Mofaz, a former defense minister who recently caused a stir by calling an attack on Iran "inevitable." More »
- Israeli PM to Step Down in 2 Months
  
  Associated Press | Jul 30, 08 1:02 PM CDT
  
  (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced today he will resign in September, throwing his country into political turmoil and raising doubts about progress for US-backed Mideast peace efforts. Olmert's brief address included harsh criticism of police investigations of corruption allegations against him. He said he was choosing the public good over his personal justice, the AP reports. More »
- In Blow to Bush, Olmert Rules Out Deal in 2008
  
  Financial Times (UK) | Jul 28, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Ehud Olmert said today it is "unrealistic" to expect a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement by the end of the year. The Israeli PM and Palestian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas pledged last year to make a deal by the end of 2008, and their inability to do so is a blow to President Bush's hopes for the situation to be resolved before he leaves office, reports the Financial Times . More »
- Global Leaders Slam Israel's West Bank Expansion Plan
  
  Washington Post | Jul 25, 08 9:46 AM CDT