Land Swap

Israel's Palestinian citizens have rejected the proposal made by Arab League foreign ministers to agree to land swaps between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The rejection was made on...

The Israeli Ministerial Committee on Legislation passed a draft law yesterday regulating Bedouin settlement in the Negev known as the "Prawer Plan", which will allow the seizure of approximately...

Marwan Barghouti has criticised the concept of land swaps with the Israelis and called for a Palestinian state on all of the land occupied by Israel in 1967. The...

Israel expects to retain about 85 per cent of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories at the end of the negotiations, Yedioth Ahronoth said on Thursday. Citing sources in...

The Palestinian Authority is ready to exchange land with Israel in a deal which will mean that 65 per cent of the illegal settlers and their homes will stay...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has apparently told John Kerry that his negotiators cannot carry on talking to the Israelis as long as settlement construction and expansion continues. Abbas told...

Israel's Maariv newspaper quoted on Friday sources close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office saying that the US administration favours a recent proposal by Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor...

Earlier this month, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman declared in a high profile speech that "he would not support any peace agreement that does not include the exchange of...

By Dr. Salman Abu Sitta Newspaper columns are currently busy with commentaries on Arab, Israeli and US diplomatic moves suggesting new initiatives in the peace process, which died some time...

If political wisdom does not prevail, if no crucial decisions are taken in which ALL Palestinians are represented, and if we do not learn from the mistakes of the...

By Fahmi HoweidiThe basic principle in politics is to assume a lack of innocence surrounding any action, so we should treat with caution the visit of the Elders' delegation...

"They already have a certain amount of self-determination – something that's less than a state but covers almost all of the Palestinian population." Elkin's statement refers to the alleged...

The late Palestinian writer, Emile Habibi has coined the Arabic word "AlMutashail" out of the two halves of the Arabic words (mutafail /optimist and mutashaim /pessimist) to describe someone...

Diplomacy and submission have been propelled to prominence with Mahmoud Abbas's recent concession to Israel. Allegedly speaking on behalf of Palestinians, Abbas declared that the Palestinian Authority would agree...

Every other day, it seems, figures from the group who believe that "life is negotiations" mourn the current negotiation process; they sometimes get upset and resign; at other times...