palestine

The AP has obtained a memo written by the non-Hamas wing of the Palestinian national movement:
“All hopes placed in the new U.S. administration and President Obama have evaporated,” said the document issued by Fatah’s Office of Mobilization and Organization. The department is headed Fatah’s No. 2, Mohammed Ghneim.

Speaking for the first time since receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama accepted the honor while outlining some of the goals he still hopes to accomplish.
“I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century,” he said.
After a light [...]

In defiance of President Obama’s expressed and unequivocal statements and international obligations, the Netanyahu government in Israel intends to authorize “hundreds” of new housing units on Palestinian territory in the West Bank, which the AP reports is a prelude to even more settlement construction. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ office just sent out this [...]

While in Israel, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee gave an interview to an extremely sympathetic reporter for PajamasTV. Asked about “the Obama administration’s view of Jewish settlements,” Huckabee compares the idea of telling Jewish families not to move to the settlements to American segregation. “We tried that in the United States,” Huckabee says. “We had [...]

Building off former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s rejection of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, Josh Smilovitz at the Israel Policy Forum finds video from 2007 of Huckabee telling a Jewish gathering that those people who think of themselves as Palestinians are really suffering from a false national consciousness.
HUCKABEE: Basically, there really is no [...]

If I gave a speech saying that Israel had the right, invested in it by God, to permanently rule over millions of disenfranchised Palestinians in violation of their rights and their legitimate aspirations, I’d be outing myself as a dangerous fanatic who has no problem with a Jewish democracy becoming a Jewish apartheid state. So [...]

Former GOP Arkansas governor, Fox News host and presumed presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is in Israel and he tweets:
I’ll be in Israel this week and touring the highly disputed settlements that Obama and Hillary are trying to stop.
“Highly disputed” is one way of putting it. “Illegal” is another, and “contrary to Israeli obligations under the [...]

Over the weekend, Israel evicted two Palestinian families from largely-Palestinian East Jerusalem, a move met with near-universal international condemnation. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a joint appearance at the State Department with her Jordanian counterpart about an hour ago, said Israel’s move is “not in keeping with Israeli obligations.” AFP reports:
“Both sides have [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s going to be giving her first major speech on the Obama administration’s foreign policy to a domestic audience this afternoon at the Council on Foreign Relations. I, for one, am not going to be writing much about the policy substance of the speech. That’s because I want to focus [...]

A big cross-section of the American Jewish community’s leadership met with President Obama today at the White House, from J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami on the left to Abraham Foxman on the right. Obama talked about a lot more than Israel, Palestine and Iran, including domestic issues like health care as well. You can read all [...]