Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News U.N. Panel Debates ‘Civilizations’ Peace Plan
A high-level group appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is prepared to issue a set of recommendations that could end up identifying the need for a peaceful Israeli-Palestinian settlement as a vital step in improving relations between Islam and the West. Annan is expected to receive the final report next month from the Alliance…
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News Bush Urged To Take Lead in Peace Talks
Several former American officials, as well as liberal Jewish groups, activists and philanthropists including George Soros, are ramping up efforts to press the Bush administration to take a more active role in promoting Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. This week, a bipartisan group of former senior diplomats, including Dennis Ross and Thomas Pickering, issued a report calling for…
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News Palestinian Clashes Escalate, Pressure on U.S. Mounts
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas headed to the United Nations General Assembly in New York last month with a tentative agreement for a unity government with Hamas. The deal, however, quickly collapsed, and this week the mutual finger-pointing between Hamas and Abbas’s Fatah movement escalated into brutal clashes between their respective supporters. While some diplomats…
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News Saudis in Quiet Talks To Revive Arab Peace Bid
Reports of an unprecedented meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and a top Saudi Arabian official earlier this month, coupled with Riyadh’s outreach efforts to American Jewish leaders, have rekindled talks of a serious international diplomatic push to revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The Saudi push comes as European countries pressure the Bush…
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News Allies Press White House on Palestinians
The Saudi diplomatic push comes as European and Arab countries are pressing the Bush administration to jumpstart the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations in the wake of the recent Lebanon war, first and foremost by urging it to accept a Palestinian unity government with Hamas that would not explicitly recognize Israel or renounce violence. But the Bush…
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News U.N. Notebook
Fatah Collapse Middle East commentators of nearly every stripe are warning these days, echoing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, that a collapse of the Hamas-led government could precipitate a broader collapse of Gaza into chaos. Abbas hasn’t gone the next step to say that his own Fatah party is facing a serious crisis, but others…
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News Ahmadinejad Draws Protests Throughout Trip to N.Y.
When he came to New York for his first United Nations General Assembly last year, the newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a virtual unknown. But in the past year he has become the international face of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and growing influence from Lebanon to Iraq, not to mention his calls for the…
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News U.S. Groups Mostly Mum on Pope’s Remarks
One of Israel’s chief rabbis was quick to condemn the recent comments of Pope Benedict XVI on Islam, but American Jewish organizations were mostly silent. The Israeli Sephardic chief rabbi, Shlomo Amar, sent a letter written September 17 letter to Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, a leading Sunni Muslim legal scholar in Qatar, in which he criticized…
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