Palestine: UN reiterates two-state solution based on 1967 borders
Middle East Monitor / January 30, 2020
The United Nations stressed on Wednesday its adherence to international legitimacy resolutions on the conflict in the Middle East, and bilateral agreements on the establishment of two states, living side by side in peace and security within recognised borders based on the 1967...
ICC war crime probe more likely to find Israel guilty says Israeli legal expert
Middle East Monitor / January 29, 2020
Israeli officials are at risk of being issued arrest warrants over possible war crimes in the occupied West Bank. That is the conclusion of Yuval Shany, an expert on international law at the Israel Democracy Institute.
Commenting on what may turn out to be...
The Elders warn that new US ‘peace’ plan for the Middle East is unworkable
Middle East Monitor / January 29, 2020
The Elders warned today that the new US proposals announced by President Donald Trump cannot provide a workable solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If implemented by Israel, they would make the two-state solution impossible, entrenching deep inequality along ethnic lines and moving the...
Donald Trump’s Middle East “peace plan” will not bring peace – the US and...
Jonathan Cook
The National / January 29, 2020
The proposal deliberately includes a host of unrealisable preconditions before what remains of Palestine can be recognised.
Much of Donald Trump’s long-trailed “deal of the century” came as no surprise. Over the past 18 months, Israeli officials had leaked many of its details. The...
