PEACE PROCESS

LE MYTHE DE LA PAIX MANQUÉE AVEC LES PALESTINIENS

Le Centre des Affaires Publiques et de l'État, Jérusalem (CAPE), 15 mai 2012

On Saturday, Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho delivered a letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas outlining Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s stance on the stalled “peace process”.

The following is an excerpt of a letter delivered last week
to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu by a Palestinian delegation:

…Mr. Prime Minister,

CONDI’S LESSONS:
Rick Richman
Commentary, February 2012

The following is a review of Condoleezza Rice’s No Higher Honor:
A Memoir Of My Years In Washington (Crown Publishers, 766 pages.)

A BLESSING IN DISGUISE?
Charles Bybelezer

A YEAR FOR ELECTIONS, NOT MIDEAST PEACE
Elliott Abrams
Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2012

Last week, the Quartet issued yet another call for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks “without delay or preconditions”—its third such declaration since September 23—following separate meetings in Jerusalem with Palestinian and Israeli officials.

The current paradigm governing Israel’s strategic relations is flawed. Perhaps it is due to millennia of suffering that Jews, and by extension the Jewish state, are compelled to adopt a position of weakness vis-à-vis the external world; however, the fact remains: Israel is strong.