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Hugh Naylor

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Hamas tells Hizbollah to withdraw fighters from Syria

Jun 18, 2013

Call to withdraw forces from Syria is a further sign that the 26-month uprising against President Bashar Al Assad is straining longtime alliances in the region. Hugh Naylor reports from RamallahRead article "Hamas tells Hizbollah to withdraw fighters from Syria"

Israel rejects Jewish extremist group's terrorist tag, despite hate crimes

Jun 18, 2013

Attacks by the ultrationalists involve torching Palestinian olive groves and spray-painting bigoted graffiti on mosques and churches, as well as armed raids into West Bank villages. Hugh Naylor reports from RamallahRead article "Israel rejects Jewish extremist group's terrorist tag, despite hate crimes"

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China hosts Middle East peace talks

Jun 19, 2013

Palestinian envoy to the United Nations praises China's growing involvement in the Middle East peace process.Read article

Israel has frozen building in settlements, housing minister says

Jun 19, 2013

The step, confirmed several weeks ago by the Israel's anti-settlement Peace Now movement, has had no impact on construction already under way in settlements - projects that have raised Palestinian concern and drawn international condemnation.Read article

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Ramallah is booming, but residents wait for the bubble to burst

Apr 25, 2012

The Palestinian Authority's capital on the West Bank has had a persuasive veneer of prosperity for the past five years, but there are fears that the economic boom may soon turn to a very painful bust. Hugh Naylor, Foreign Correspondent reports.Read article Ramallah is booming, but residents wait for the bubble to burst

Syria's rebel bikers a key weapon in war on Assad

Aug 19, 2012

The success of the rebel assault on Aleppo was in part based on the superior motorbiking skills of residents from Syria's countryside. Read article Syria's rebel bikers a key weapon in war on Assad

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Kerry's deadline may signal end of road for two-state solution

Apr 28 , 2013 | 10:06AM GST

bojack

The occupation has absolutely nothing to do with Palestinian/Arab hostility toward Israel. When the Arab states of Egypt, Syria and Jordan initiated a war of publically stated annihilation against Israel in 1967 (The Six Day War), there were no settlements and therefore no settlers in the West Bank or Gaza. What does this tell us? In 2000, Israeli PM Ehud Barak met with Yasser Arafat at Camp David, with Bill Clinton and Mideast advisor Dennis Ross presiding. PM Barak offered PA Chairman Arafat 92% of the West Bank with land exchanges for the remaing 8%, the entire Gaza, and an independent Palestinian state. Arafat neither responded nor offered a counterproposal. He simply packed his bags and went home. Clinton and Ross both reported this. In 2008 Israeli PM Ehud Olmert offered all of the above but sweetened the pot to 95% of the West Bank with land exchanges for the remaining few percent (Gaza had already beem surrendered). Palestinian PM Abbas turned it down without a serious counterproposal. In 1979 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat offered Israeli PM Manachem Begin a peace treaty for the return of the Sinai. When the Likud hawk saw a man whom he believed was sincere, he surrendered the entire Sinai Peinsula for a peace treaty. In 2008, the Likud uber hawk PM Ariel Sharon surrendered the entire Gaza, forcibly expelling the settlers from their homes, without getting anything in return. Woops, I made a mistake. He got 10,000 rockets fired at Israeli civilian centers in return. Israel has released thousands of Palestinian prisoners over the years as goodwill gestures to get peace talks started. Please tell me a solitary thing that the Palestinian side has done to promote peace. President Abbas has stated he will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state. He refuses to try to tamp down the anti-Semitism in the Palestinian media and in the public school curriculum . He refuses to amend the genocide clause in the PLO Charter which to this day calls for the destruction of Israel.

Turkey gets tough with Israel over peace deal

Apr 8 , 2013 | 04:15PM GST

Tim Upham

Ahmet Davutoglu should do the same thing that Turkish President Abdullah Gul has called for -- Hamas to recognize the State of Israel.

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