Binyamin Netanyahu

By Teymoor Nabili in Americas on May 25th, 2011
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I was presenting the news on Al Jazeera English on Tuesday, as Binyamin Netanyahu was speaking to the US congress in Washington, DC.

We carried the whole speech live, and did a good job, I thought, of presenting a rounded analysis of the content and the implications of Netanyahu's hard-line approach. (And I am still always amazed at how the Israeli press is so much better at critiquing Netanyahu  than are the US media.)

Anyway, within the overwhelmingly partisan chamber there was, rather unexpectedly, a heckler. We didn't get to see her, barely even heard her yell "stop the occupation" before she was dragged away.

By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on March 3rd, 2011
Egyptians perform Friday prayers in Tahrir Square during a huge march celebrating former president Hosni Mubarak's ouster.

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By Gregg Carlstrom in Middle East on January 24th, 2011

We'll be blogging throughout the day about the first installment of The Palestine Papers, Al Jazeera's months-long investigation into thousands of confidential documents from Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

(Last night's coverage, if you missed it, dealt with the PA's offer to concede almost all illegal settlements in East Jeursalem, and chief Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat's offer to be "creative" about the legal status of the Haram al-Sharif.)

By Sherine Tadros in Middle East on November 19th, 2010
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We’ve all been warned to expect postal delays after the recent parcel bomb scare, but I’m not sure we can blame DHL for the delay in the so-called US ‘letter of incentives’ getting to Israel.

The letter is meant to formalise the offer communicated last Thursday by US secretary of state Hillary Clinton to Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister.

Israel agrees to a 90-day freeze in settlement building in return for US jets and support at the UN.

By Sherine Tadros in Middle East on October 14th, 2010
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Six weeks to the day since direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority were relaunched and we've seen the settlement moratorium expire, the Palestinians threaten to walk out of talks and the Israeli cabinet approve one of its most racist laws of all time. 

But the main players did fit in a nice post-summer mini-break, aka 'peace summit round 2', in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

And to think we were all skeptical at the start of this US-led peace endeavour.

But this week has seen an interesting twist to the story.

On Sunday, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli PM, revealed he had offered to [consider] asking his cabinet to extend the [partial] settlement freeze in the West Bank (not including Jerusalem).

In return, he asked for the Palestinians to recognise Israel as the Jewish homeland (and not the homeland of millions of Palestinians that fled following Israel's creation and hope to one day return). 

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By Hashem Ahelbarra in Middle East on October 7th, 2010
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Peace talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis have once again shipwrecked on an ocean of semantic squabbling.

Relaunched in September, the talks have tested a core premise of the American diplomatic effort in the Middle East: bringing the two sides to sit down and hammer out a comprehensive peace deal that would pave the way to the creation of a Palestinian state.

After three rounds of direct talks in Washington, DC, the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh and Jerusalem, negotiations collapsed when Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, refused to extend a moratorium on illegal settlement construction in the West Bank.

The Palestinians and the Israelis haven't had a chance to tackle core issues: the borders of the future state, security, the refugees, Jerusalem and the settlements.

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