Results tagged “Oslo”

Anyone analyzing what Israel's adversaries are planning should read the writing of Professor Richard Falk carefully. A former professor of international law at Princeton, where he defended the use of violence by Vietnam War protesters and supported the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, he was recently appointed by the...

Just when President Barack Obama is facing mounting criticism over his domestic agenda for the US, one of the leading American journals of international relations, Foreign Policy, published a cover story for its January/February issue comparing Obama to Jimmy Carter, who is widely perceived as having been a failed president....

This week, Osama bin Laden took down from the shelves an old argument from his radical Islamic library, namely that Israel is the reason why al-Qaeda is presently trying to attack the US. In an audiotape broadcast on al-Jazeera on January 24, bin Laden took credit for the attempted airline...

Israel has not yet declared its detailed positions in future talks with the Palestinians, and for understandable reasons. At this point, the government is justly focusing on the Iranian issue, which constitutes an existential threat. This is the context in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conducted his visit in Washington...

The Obama administration's tough, confrontational rhetoric on Israeli settlements raises a number of specific questions: Were Israeli settlements a violation of international law? Were Israeli settlements a violation of agreements and an obstacle to further progress in any future peace talks? Did the administration envision Israel withdrawing completely to...