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A Bad Deal: Why Palestinian Unity Won’t Lead to Peace

April 28, 2011 | Amb. Dore Gold

Representatives of Fatah and Hamas announced that they had suddenly reached a reconciliation agreement. Although the agreement may solve some of the short-term problems of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's statehood drive, it will create larger problems that promise to doom the plan to irrelevancy -- and make a historic peace agreement with Israel far less likely.

The Fallacy of the “1967 Borders” – No Such Borders Ever Existed

December 21, 2010 | Amb. Alan Baker

The "1967 borders" do not exist and have no basis in history, law, or fact.

Recognition of a Palestinian State – Premature, Legally Invalid, and Undermining any Bona Fide Negotiation Process

December 9, 2010 | Amb. Alan Baker

The acts of recognition of a Palestinian state in 1967 borders by Brazil, Argentina, and possibly other Latin American states have no significance other than as a political expression of opinion. The unceasing efforts among states by the leadership of the Palestinian Authority to attain recognition of unilateral statehood within the 1967 borders and thereby bypass the accepted negotiation process, runs counter to their commitments in their agreements with Israel, as witnessed and guaranteed by

A New Strategy for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

September 2, 2008 | Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon

Is Jerusalem Being “Judaized”?

March 1, 2003 | Justus Reid Weiner