January 23, 2011

Reporting from Jerusalem, July 1995

With help from my dedicated Bryn Mawr College extern Danielle Ford, I have now completed the digitization of a series of five reports I wrote for Al-Hayat in July 1995...
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March 13, 2010

'Journey to Jerusalem, 1995', Part 1

I'm happy to make available to JWN readers Part 1 of a seven-part series I wrote about Jerusalem for Al-Hayat, back in July 1995. It's here. Getting this series into...
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March 11, 2010

So does Biden finally get it? Does Obama??

Shimon Shiffer, writing in Yediot Aharonot today (HT: Laura Rozen): While standing in front of the cameras, the U.S. vice president made an effort to smile at Binyamin Netanyahu even...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:34 PM | Fulltext link (9 comments)

March 10, 2010

The Biden factor: Iraq, Palestine-- and Israel

Breaking news: late Wednesday evening in Cairo, Abu Mazen and his buddies at the Arab League decided there will be no 'proximity talks' between the PLO and Israel. I'm kind...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:43 PM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

March 07, 2010

Avraham Burg, a prophetic voice for Jerusalem

Go read the stirring op-ed that Avraham Burg, former Knesset speaker and former chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, published in Haaretz today. The title is Once justice dwelled...
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New life for Israel's anti-occupation left?

Didi Remez has a great post today about the gradually snowballing effect of the weekly anti-occupation demonstration's in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah district. He writes, Thousands of demonstrators, Jewish and Palestinian,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:54 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

February 24, 2010

What's been happening in Shu'afat Refugee Camp?

Shu'afat Refugee Camp has the dubious privilege of being the only UN-run Palestinian refugee camp that lies within the boundaries that the Israeli occupation authorities unilaterally drew inside the West...
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February 17, 2010

Jerusalem between two states and one

In the event of a two-state solution to the Palestine-Israel dispute, what are the options for governing Jerusalem? This was the question I started to explore in the presentation I...
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February 13, 2010

In Malta, discussing Jerusalem

Well, on Thursday I was finally able to get out of Washington... I had a long layover in Munich yesterday and got here to Malta, to the U.N. conference on...
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