IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Fact Sheets
Prior to the conference on Israeli-Palestinian peace being convened by the French government in Paris on Sunday and the principles of a two-state framework recently laid out in a major speech by US Secretary of State John Kerry, the IMEU offers the following policy brief.
on January 11, 2017
Similar to the main character in the movie "The Terminal," Alaa Yasin is a man without a homeland, according to the U.S. government. Unlike the movie, however, Yasin has spent the last eight months in a jail cell instead of a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
on May 20, 2016
68 years ago yesterday, the United Nations voted to partition Palestine, with General Assembly Resolution 181. The front page of the November 29, 1947 edition of the New York Times read “[General] Assembly Votes Palestine Partition; Margin Is 33 to 13; Arabs Walk Out; Aranha Hails Work as Session Ends.” Why were the Arabs angry? Because, for the indigenous Palestinians, the deal was a thoroughly bad one.
on November 30, 2015
Fact Sheets
In light of today’s meeting at the White House between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the IMEU offers the following fact sheet, Five Questions President Obama Should Ask Prime Minister Netanyahu.
on November 9, 2015
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that although he doesn't want a binational state, "at this time we need to control all of the territory for the foreseeable future." MKs who took part in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting told Haaretz that Netanyahu turned to the politicians and said, hinting at the anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination: "These days, there is talk about what would happen if this or that person would have remained."
on October 26, 2015
Diana Buttu: Abbas needs to call for international 'sanctions' on Israel. The former legal adviser to the PLO also added that the Palestinian president needs to accept a one-state solution. Watch Buttu's analysis of Abbas' UN General Assembly speech.
on September 30, 2015
Q&As
With Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas having addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, September 30, 2015, the IMEU offers the following expert Q&A with Diana Buttu, a former advisor to Abbas and Palestinian negotiators.
on September 30, 2015
More than half of Palestinians no longer support a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel, a survey released on Monday showed, rejecting the goal that has underpinned four decades of international diplomacy. The poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, a leading research group in the Palestinian territories, found that 51 percent of Palestinians oppose the two-state solution while 48 percent support it.
on September 21, 2015
The United Nations has overwhelmingly voted in favour of raising a flag of Palestine at its headquarters in New York City in a symbolic move highlighting Palestinian aspirations for statehood. A resolution was adopted on Thursday evening with 119 in favour, eight voting against - including Israel and the United States - and 45 abstentions.
on September 11, 2015