IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, joins Andrea Mitchell Reports to talk about Prime Minister Netanyahu’s attempts to walk back earlier remarks about rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state.
on March 20, 2015
The Obama administration might be open to lending its support to the UN Security Council's resolution that would define the principle for a two-state solution as based on Israel's 1967 borders, a senior White House official told The New York Times. The move would come in response to Netanyahu's withdrawal of his support for the establishing of a Palestinian state as expressed in his Bar Ilan speech in 2009.
on March 19, 2015
IF anyone doubted where Benjamin Netanyahu stood on the question of peace, the Israeli prime minister made himself clear just before Tuesday’s election, proclaiming that there would never be a Palestinian state on his watch. Then he decided to engage in a bit of fear-mongering against Palestinian citizens of Israel in hopes of driving his supporters to the polls.
on March 18, 2015
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu firmly repudiated his purported support for the establishment of a Palestinian state, the cornerstone of U.S. policy for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian issue for the past 15 years. According to Netanyahu, "anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state today and evacuate lands, is giving attack grounds to the radical Islam against the state of Israel."
on March 17, 2015
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a final bid to shore up right-wing support ahead of a knife-edge vote on Tuesday, said he would not permit a Palestinian state to be created under his watch if he is re-elected. Trailing his centre-left opponent Isaac Herzog in opinion polls, the three-term leader has sought to shift the focus away from socioeconomic issues and on to security challenges, saying he alone can defend Israel.
on March 16, 2015
Palestinians in the West Bank don't get to vote in Israel's election on Tuesday, but they do have opinions. And at a time when talks toward creating a Palestinian state have stalled, there are Palestinians like Ahmad Aweidah who are seeking alternatives to the traditional call for a two-state solution. Aweidah is among those busy building the outward signs of a Palestinian state. Such efforts were visible when we went to visit him in the city of Nablus.
on March 14, 2015
After joining International Criminal Court in January, Palestine to launch case over Israeli war crimes in Gaza and settlement-building activities. Palestinian officials are to lodge their first complaint against Israel for alleged war crimes at the International Criminal Court on 1 April, a senior official told AFP on Monday.
on March 2, 2015
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said late Tuesday that the state of Palestine will join the International Criminal Court on April 1, a high-stakes move that will enable the Palestinians to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel.
on January 7, 2015
Palestinians rang in New Year's Eve by deploying what Israel has called their legal and diplomatic "nuclear option." Mahmoud Abbas, chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the State of Palestine, which has been recognized by the UN as non-member observer state since 2012.
on January 6, 2015