The Media Line - Trusted Mideast News. About Mondoweiss. Mondoweiss is a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective. It has four principal aims: To publish important developments touching on Israel/Palestine, the American Jewish community and the shifting debate over US foreign policy in a timely fashion.To publish a diversity of voices to promote dialogue on these important issues.To foster the movement for greater fairness and justice for Palestinians in American foreign policy.To offer alternatives to pro-Zionist ideology as a basis for American Jewish identity.
This blog is co-edited by Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz. Weiss is 56 and lives in New York state. Horowitz is 39 and lives in Atlanta. We maintain this blog because of 9/11, Iraq, Gaza, the Nakba, the struggling people of Israel and Palestine, and our Jewish background. This site aims to build a diverse community, with posts from many authors.
Contact Mondoweiss c/o CERSC PO Box 180165 Chicago, IL 60618. Time Running Out For A Two-State Solution? Getting a peace deal in the Middle East is such a priority to President Obama that his first foreign calls on his first day in office were to Arab and Israeli leaders. And on day two, the president made former Senator George Mitchell his special envoy for Middle East peace. Mr. Obama wants to shore up the ceasefire in Gaza, but a lasting peace really depends on the West Bank where Palestinians had hoped to create their state. The problem is, even before Israel invaded Gaza, a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians had concluded that peace between them was no longer possible, that history had passed it by. It's known as the "two-state" solution.
Daniella Weiss moved from Israel to the West Bank 33 years ago. "I think that settlements prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state in the land of Israel. Though settlers and Palestinians don't agree on anything, most do agree now that a peace deal has been overtaken by events. Asked why there are so many checkpoints, Dr. Middle East: MidEastWeb. Israel News | Israel's #1 News Site - Israel National News. Is Peace Out Of Reach? ePalestine. The Electronic Intifada. Middle East - The Christian Science Monitor. PNN - Palestine News Network. Haaretz Israeli News source.
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