The Daily Star, January 27, 2005

It is time to make the most of 'a promising moment' for peace

Daily Star Editorial

In light of this week's visit by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near
Eastern Affairs William Burns, this Daily Star editorial discusses recent
developments taking place on the Israeli-Palestinian scene: "The stew is,
indeed, thickening, and may be ready for savouring very shortly. Or so it
appears. We have, however, seen it all before - apparent progress, raised
hopes, and then ... nothing. We cannot afford to be overly optimistic, yet
the signs are more promising today than they have been for years."

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Ha'aretz, January 20, 2005

State, Bedouin ready for mediation effort on land disputes

Nir Hasson

In a meeting with U.S. mediation expert Prof. Larry Susskind last week, (Israeli) Attorney General Menachem Mazuz gave his approval for a course of mediation between the state and the Bedouin residents of the Negev. The process, the first of its kind in Israel, is aimed at solving land disputes in the Negev and the problem of unrecognized villages.

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13. Januar 2005

Palästina nach den Wahlen

Christian Sterzing

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The Daily Star, January 17, 2005

Israel may look more closely at economics of peace -
Central Bank gets new governor

David Dreilinger

David Dreilinger discusses the political impact of American economist
Stanley Fischer's nomination as the new Israel Central Bank Governor.
According to Dreilinger, Fischer "realizes that he cannot pull off an
economic miracle without a political breakthrough with the Palestinians.
[.] The election of Mahmoud Abbas, together with the upcoming Israeli
evacuation of settlements and troops from the Gaza Strip and a small part
of the West Bank, could present an opportunity for Palestinians and
Israelis to work together productively to the benefit of their respective
economies.

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Januar 2005

Largest Municipal Park In Israel On Track For Approval

Arava Institute Policy Center

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The Jerusalem Post, December 2, 2004

Try Wisdom

David Kimche

Former Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General David Kimche recently participated in a conference in Israel about Arab perspectives on peace.  Several Palestinian and Jordanian speakers were nearly denied permission from Israeli authorities to enter Jerusalem for the conference.  Reflecting on this experience, Kimche asks, "Is it not in our interest to foster good relations with those of our neighbors who speak for peace and nonviolence? Security is, of course, a supreme imperative. But let's use our head when working for this goal. Neither the Shin Bet nor the IDF emerges with flying colors from that particular test."

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The Jordan Times, December 9, 2004

Reasons for Optimism- Palestinian, Israeli children 'imagine' peace"

Omar Attum

Freelance journalist Omar Attum relates the moving experience of spending ten days in the United States city of Louisville, Kentucky, with Israeli and Palestinian children from the Shani Choir of Jezreel Valley Music School and the National Palestine Centre for Music in Nablus.

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IPF, December 3, 2004

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year?

MJ Rosenberg

"According to the classic old carol I keep hearing this week, it is 'beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere I go.' That could be.  Even in the Israeli-Palestinian arena, of all places, a certain seasonal cheeriness seems for the moment to hint that better times may be ahead."

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11. November 2004

The Day - and Day After

Christian Sterzing

Ramallah, 8.15 Uhr

Yassir Arafat starb heute um 3.30 Uhr in Paris. Die Situation in Ramallah ist ruhig. Die Geschäfte sind geschlossen. Die Palästinensische Selbstverwaltungs-Behörde (PA) hat eine 40-tägige Staatstrauer ausgerufen. Vom Minarett der großen Moschee in Ramallah schallen über die Häuser der Stadt die Koranverse. Am Manara-Platz, der Stadtmitte Ramallahs, sammeln sich Menschen – die Journalisten sind derzeit noch in der Überzahl. An der Muqata, dem ehemaligen Sitz und zukünftigen Mausoleum Arafats, hat sich die Anzahl der TV-Uebertragungswagen seit gestern nochmals erhöht. Aus dem Gaza-Streifen werden erste Trauerdemonstrationen gemeldet.

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11.11.2004

YASSER ARAFAT 1929-2004

Adam Keller & Beate Zilversmidt

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LA Times, November 10, 2004

Palestinians Need a Gandhi, Not a New Arafat

Eric Weiner

One of the last foreigners to visit Yasser Arafat before he fell ill was
Arun Gandhi, grandson of Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhi. He traveled to
Arafat's compound in Ramallah with a simple message: Put down the gun and adopt Gandhi's way of nonviolent resistance.

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CGNews, September 24, 2004

Begin with the Children

Josie Mendelson

Hand in Hand, the centre for Jewish-Arab education was established in 1997 with the goal of initiating and fostering egalitarian, bilingual,
multi-cultural education for Jewish and Arab children.  Today, over 500
children attend Hand in Hand's three schools in Israel and share
extraordinary experiences of integrated classrooms. 

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Israel21c, September 12, 2004

Israeli, Palestinian Paediatricians Partner
to Treat Palestinian Children

Lauren Gelfond Feldinger

Scores of Palestinian children with serious medical conditions have long
gone untreated because of lack of access to and lack of affordability of
proper medical care. But thanks to a new partnership of Palestinian and
Israeli paediatricians, hundreds of Palestinian children have been seen for
free by Israeli doctors in the last four months.

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BBC Online, September 7, 2004

Water Factory' Aims to Filter Tensions

Jon Leyne

Using new, innovative technology, private Israeli contractors are
developing a water desalination plant that may provide a mechanism to
reverse political tensions surrounding the sensitive issue of water use in
the Middle East. 

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Jahrestagung des DIAK

Deutsch - Israelischer Arbeitskreis für Frieden im Nahen Osten - DIAK, die Evangelische Akademie Arnoldshain und die Heinrich Böll Stiftung laden ein zur Tagung:

Nahostkonflikt und Antisemitismus

29. – 31. Oktober 2004 (Fr. – So.)

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The Daily Star, 20. Oktober 2003

Der malaysische Premierminister sollte nicht den Juden die Schuld geben

Marwan Bischara

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Jordans Time Editorial

Refreshing Start

The remark made last week by Lt. General Moshe Yaalon, Israeli army
chief-of- staff, that Israel would be prepared to give up the Golan Heights
in return for peace with Syria, may signal a new Israeli perspective on
peace terms with Damascus, hitherto unannounced.

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Bitterlemons, August 16, 2004

A Missed Opportunity to Rebuild Trust

Gidon Bromberg

In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, water allocation remains a disputed
issue but, surprisingly to most people, not an impediment to progress in
peace talks. This article discusses how, during this latest Intifada, when
all other negotiation issues came to a complete halt, both sides were able
to continue meeting and cooperating on water issues.

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BBC News Online, August 25, 2004

Gandhi's non-violence message to Mid-East

Soutik Biswas

A grandson of India's pacifist independence leader, Mahatma Gandhi, is on a
mission in the Palestinian territories to promote unarmed, peaceful
struggle in the search for reconciliation with Israel.

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The Middle East Times, August 8, 2004

Engage America's Jews

Youssef M. Ibrahim

Youssef Ibrahim urges Arabs and Muslims to open a dialogue with the
American-Jewish community.  "American Jews have made it repeatedly clear
they agree on one thing: the need to assure the safety of Israel. Nothing
wrong with that, as Arabs and Muslims claim their main interest is the
Palestinians' well-being. Within those parameters, the American-Jewish
community holds a multitude of views and shades on Israel and how best to
defend its interests."

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The Globe and Mail, August 9, 2004

Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall

Shira Herzog

In this article, Shira Herzog reviews the challenges unique to Jerusalem
within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and highlights Israeli think tanks'
proposals.  "These groups are committed to providing security measures
while keeping political options open for future negotiations. In a city
burdened by history and shared by two nations and three religions, there's
too much at stake to do otherwise."

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Christian Science Monitor, July 06, 2004

A bridge builder between America and Islam

Jane Lampman

Lampman introduces Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a New York Imam who looks to American Muslims to help break through the stereotypes between America and Islam "by articulating the congruence of values and helping educate both sides."

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Middle East Council of Churches, June 19, 2004

"Speeding Prayer Books: Faithful Jews, Christians and Moslems in Jerusalem"

Dr. Bernard Sabella, 

Dr. Bernard Sabella discusses how the three monotheistic religions should
be united together through their worship of the same God.  He calls on
those offering up prayers to overcome the challenges of difference and
include others in those prayers.  "If we do this then we are on our way to
healing the wounds of history, peacemaking and eventual reconciliation in
the One All Loving Yahweh God Allah!"

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AMIN.org, June 18, 2004

Needed: Palestinian Unilateralism

Daoud Kuttab

Taking a second look at the concept of unilateralism, Daoud Kuttab points
out that unilateral action on one side provokes unilateral actions on the
other.  According to Kuttab, since previous Palestinian attempts at
unilateralism have not been successful, "What is badly needed is for the
Palestinian Authority to try and carry out some more political acts that
can help kick start real bilateral negotiations."

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CGNews, June 25, 2004

Promoting Reform Efforts in the Middle East

Nizar Abdel-Kader

Writer and political analyst, Nizar Abdel-Kader reflects on the reactions
of Arab states to the Greater Middle East Initiative.  Due to the war in
Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, many Arab leaders oppose the US
inspired plan. Though, Abdel-Kader encourages "a frank pan-Arab dialogue in
order to come up with a plan to serve as a basis to invite the UN, the US,
and the EU to come forward with a constructive role needed to sustain the
reform process"

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Ha’aretz, June 9, 2004

International Involvement is Key

Ha’aretz Editorial

Reacting to the new Egyptian involvement in the formulation of the Gaza
withdrawal plan and the Israeli cabinet's authorization of the
disengagement plan, this editorial stresses the need for cooperative
efforts by Israelis, Palestinians, Egyptians and especially by the Quartet
members and other G8 countries, who should be actively involved in the
plan’s implementation.

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Bitterlemons, June 7, 2004

The Big Brother

Ali Jarbawi

Ali Jarbawi explores Egyptian and Israeli motives for supporting the latest
disengagement plan in an attempt to assess whether Egypt’s role in the
conflict is changing and whether Egypt’s response signals a new approach
for resolving the conflict.

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AMIN.org, June 5, 2004

Give Peace a Chance

Ghassan Karam

Ghassan Karam encourages Arabs, Palestinians and Israelis to seize the
opportunities of the Gaza disengagement plan: “Accepting such a plan has no
downside. It will improve the quality of life for 1.3 million Palestinians
and will simultaneously act to improve the atmosphere within which the
Palestinian-Israeli dialogue is to continue.”

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Ha’aretz, May 19, 2004

An Opportunity for a Cease-Fire

Ze’ev Schiff

Though unilateral steps “attest to a loss of hope, or of desire, for an
agreement reached through negotiations and compromise” Ha’aretz defence
editor Ze'ev Schiff advocates for a unilateral response by the Palestinians
to PM Sharon’s Gaza disengagement plans: “The Palestinians now have an
opportunity to make a unilateral move of their own - the declaration of a
cease-fire, from which they would gain much.

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Bitterlemons International, May 13, 2004

The Role of Civil Society

Ron Pundak

Advocating for a multi-dimensional approach on the road to peace, Ron
Pundak, Director General of the Peres Centre for Peace, delves into the
issue of the role that civil society plays in facilitating peace in the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict.  Pundak points out that “civil society
cooperation can act as a complement to governments, fulfil peace-building
needs and cooperate in ways not feasible for the cumbersome machinery of
governments.

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Ha’aretz 20.5.2004

The outpost test

Aluf Benn

The saga known as "evacuation of the settlement outposts in the West Bank" set two new records for absurdity this week. On Monday, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz came to the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem and showed Ariel Sharon a binder of aerial photographs. One might have assumed some secret mission across the border was being considered but Mofaz's photos documented not nuclear facilities in Iran, nor Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon - but the progress of construction of settlement outposts.

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Ha’aretz, 21.5.2004

We're in bad hands

Gideon Samet

It is incredible how the commanders of such an experienced army have walked straight into their own booby trap. Many humble non-combatants have discreetly asked themselves this week what the point is of the operation in Rafah. How could it possibly succeed? How could something not go wrong?

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Ha’aretz 15.4.2004

Picking their battles

It's called 'the separation fence intifada' - an unarmed civil protest - but hundreds of Palestinians are getting hurt, and so are their Israeli supporters.

Aviv Lavie

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Monday, April 26, 2004

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What have Bush and Sharon wrought?

Henry Siegman IHT

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Ha’aretz, April 30, 2004

Corridors of Power / Whose freedom is it anyway?

Uzi Benziman

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Ha’aretz, May5, 2004, Editorial

The danger at home

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Ha’aretz, May 7, 2004

The bypass that failed

Ze'ev Sternhell

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The Washington Post, April 13, 2004

Overlooked Opening for Mideast Peace

Daoud Kuttab

Daoud Kuttab, Palestinian journalist and Director of the Institute of
Modern Media at Al-Quds University in Ramallah, reflects on overlooked
opportunities by the American administration to solve the current
Israeli-Palestinian deadlock: “The Bush administration is passing up an
important possibility for winning the war on terrorism: a military
intervention and international supervision of elections in Palestine. “

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Ha’aretz, April 15, 2004

Protest Is Not Terrorism

Ha'aretz Editorial

Arguing that “Demonstrators must not be made to pay with their lives for legitimate civil protest”, this Ha’aretz editorial explains that IDF forces
“find it difficult to understand the difference between civil disobedience
along the fence and armed combat with terrorist cells” and advocates the
need for “a uniform, coordinated policy for handling demonstrators”.

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Al-Hayat, April 12, 2004

Horizons of Peace

Mamdouh Nawfal

After three years of political deadlock, the Geneva and the
Nusseibeh-Ayalon initiatives revived the peacemaking idea between
Palestinians and Israelis.  Mamdouh Nawfal reflects on “the success of the
partisans of both initiatives in preserving efforts at making peace and
overcoming the difficulties of Sharon's era.”

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CGNews, April 16, 2004

Reform in the Arab World Requires that True Intellectuals Speak Out”

Daoud Kuttab

Daoud Kuttab reflects on the reasons why so far Arab reactions to the U.S. backed ‘Greater Middle East Initiative’ have concentrated overwhelmingly on criticisms rather than embracing its intent.  According to the author, “Since Arab democrats have failed to reach their goals through their own efforts, it seems to me that there is no harm in supporting any idea that fits with theirs, irrespective of the messenger.”

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Heft 2/2004, Mai 2004

Schwerpunkt: Die Genfer Initiative. Überblick über Inhalt und Hintergrund

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Band 38 der DIAK - Schriftenreihe

Die Anderen im Innern: Die arabisch-palästinensische Bevölkerung in Israel 

Das ist der Titel des von Uta Klein herausgegebenen Bandes. Namhafte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler geben in diesem Band Einblick in die aktuelle Situation und in Debatten der arabisch-palästinensischen Bevölkerung in Israel.

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