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Olmert: Equal rights would be death of Israel

Olmert to Haaretz: Two-state solution, or Israel is done for
ALUF BENN, DAVID LANDAU, BARAK RAVID and SHMUEL ROSNER
Ha'aretz, 29 November 2007

Israel's government of generals

An army in power
AMNON KAPELIOUK
Le Monde diplomatique, November 2007

Israel’s army no longer represents the Israeli people (religious exemptions have narrowed its conscript basis), while the people have lost confidence in the army. It has grown used to being an army of occupation and a police force for the settler movement, not to fighting wars – especially unwarranted wars

Democracy not Zionism

Palestine: democracy not Zionism
JOHN V WHITBECK
Christian Science Monitor, 14 September 2007

Jeddah -- With some sort of "meeting" or "conference" to kick start the peace process now being touted by the Bush administration, there is at least the appearance of an understanding in Washington of the importance for the region and the world of solving the "Palestinian problem."

Olmert's peace proposal

The Ramon Plan
NAHUM BARNEA and SHIMON SHIFFER
Yediot Aharonot, 7 September 2007, p. B2

[translation: McClatchy Jerusalem bureau]

The intifada will 'never stop'

Hamas leader: Palestinians will 'never stop the intifada'
DION NISSENBAUM
McClatchy Newspapers, 22 August 2007

Damascus, Syria — Khaled Mashaal, Hamas' most influential political leader, told McClatchy Newspapers that his Islamist organization is unwilling to make any significant concessions to Israel or to its Palestinian rivals in Fatah to repair fractured Middle East peace talks.

On Hamas

Our second biggest mistake in the Middle East
ALASTAIR CROOKE
London Review of Books, vol 29 no 13 (5 July 2007)

Hamas: Unwritten Chapters by Azzam Tamimi · Hurst, 344 pp, £14.95

Where Now for Palestine: The Demise of the Two-State Solution ed. Jamil Hilal · Zed, 260 pp, £17.99

Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Sara Roy · Pluto, 379 pp, £16.99

Al Hayat interview with Mish'al on Hamas's position

Leader Mish'al explains Hamas's 'selective' approach to Quartet conditions
BBC Worldwide Monitoring, 13 October 2006

Head of Hamas's Political Bureau Khalid Mish'al has explained the movement's refusal to recognize Israel by saying that, if it were to recognize "the Zionist entity", Hamas would be recognizing "the legitimacy of the occupation".

However, he pointed out that Israel "exists in reality" and that what concerns him and the movement is the Palestinian state which is yet to be established and Palestinian rights which have yet to be granted.

Marwan Barghouthi speaks from prison

Talking with Marwan Barghouthi
Palestine-Israel Journal vol 13 no 2 (Autumn 2006)

The time has come to open the doors for a young generation of activists

Marwan Barghouthi is a member of the Revolutionary Council of Fateh. He is currently serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail, but is viewed by all observers, including Israelis, as a potential future Palestinian leader. His imprisonment is seen as a political act and his release will constitute a substantial part of any future political breakthrough.

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