Time is running out for a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict leading to a two-state solution, said the Palestinian Authority prime minister Sunday night.
BEIRUT -- Lebanons new electoral law could define the role of the countrys Christian electorate and directly impact the ongoing Sunni-Shia power struggle, experts say.
EDITORIAL
Salam Fayyad, prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, cited his Israeli counterpart Ehud Olmert during a speech Sunday night in Washington. Fayyad said that unless a two-state solution was achieved in the settlement of the six-decade old Palestinian-Israeli conflict, chances are the Palestinians would eventually give up on the idea of a two-state solution, and settle on the one-state alternative.
OPINION
JERUSALEM -- In a recent report, Peace Now (an Israeli NGO) revealed that since U.S. President George W. Bush convened the Annapolis peace talks last October, the number of Israeli construction tenders issued in East Jerusalem has increased by a factor of 38 compared to the previous year.
In a farewell interview he gave to the Yediot Ahronot newspaper on the eve of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert dropped a bombshell. "What Im telling you now," he said to his interviewers, "no Israeli leader ever said before me: We have to pull out from almost all the territories [in the West Bank], including in East Jerusalem, including in the Golan Heights."
