Palestina: negoziati diretti, rotta sconosciuta

Rilancio dei negoziati diretti fra israeliani e palestinesi, dunque. La decisione era ormai nellaria da tempo, e lavvio ufficiale di tali negoziati giunge a poche settimane dalla possibile ripresa delle attività edilizie negli insediamenti, essendo previsto per il 26…

Direct talks let the countdown begin

Spend as much time in the Middle East following the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as I have over the years and you begin to notice a sad pattern. The two-state solution based on the Israeli-Palestinian equation of ‘land for peace’ has brought…

At the Mideast peace talks, a changed Netanyahu

He is usually depicted as a hard-liner, a hopeless ideologue burdened by a legacy of hawkish sound bites and shackled to a notoriously conservative coalition. But, contrary to popular wisdom, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is proving to be the most…