Shibley Telhami / The Brookings Institution (November 2011)
Survey of 3,000 people in Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates in October 2011, assessing
attitudes toward the United States and the Obama administration, prospects for Arab-Israeli peace, the impact of
the Arab awakening, the outlook for the Egyptian elections, and opinions on where the region is headed politically.
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James Baker III Institute for Public Policy (November 2011)
Summary of results of a conference commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Madrid Peace Conference which included
Arab, Israeli, American and European diplomats, policymakers, business people, academics and civil society
activists. The goal was to reflect on the key achievements of the Madrid conference and to draw lessons learned
from that period- and from the intervening years- that might be instructive in the current context. PDF >
Gallup (November 2011)
Reveals that a large majority of Muslim Americans are
most likely (89%) to reject violent attacks by individuals or small groups on civilians versus any other U.S.
religious group. Also finds that 81% of Muslim Americans and 78% of Jewish Americans support a future in which an
independent Palestinian state would coexist alongside of Israel. Read More
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Dan Rothem / The Atlantic (November 1, 2011)
Rotehm, a mapping expert, provides a description of the most controversial settlements in the West Bank. Includes
information on Ariel, Giv'at Ze'ev, Ma'ale Adumim, Har Homa, and Efrat.
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Michael Several / Palestine-Israel Journal (2011)
Describes how tax-exempt organizations in the United States support Israeli settlements and what can be done to end
this practice. Read More >
Dear Friend,
From where we sit as longtime activists in Israel's struggle to define who she is, this past summer was an astonishing time. What began as a protest over the price of cottage cheese grew into mass demonstrations across Israel against the rising cost of living and our increasingly inadequate social welfare system.
The extremist settlers call it "Price Tag." We have always called it by its proper name: Terrorism.
Now, Israel's Shin Bet, the IDF's top brass and Israeli Cabinet members agree with us. On Monday, shortly after a mosque was torched in an Israeli-Arab village in the Galilee and "Price Tag" graffiti was found nearby, Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, a member of the extreme right wing Yisrael Beitenu Party, told an Israel Radio reporter that he prefers not to use the perpetrators self-serving jargon. "This is an act of terrorism," he said.
The problem is that largely because of law enforcement negligence, a terror campaign that has been raging in the West Bank for at least three years, has now mushroomed into a widespread phenomenon - both in the West Bank and in Israel proper - that targets not only West Bank Palestinians but also Israeli Arab citizens, Israeli peace activists and Israeli law enforcement officers.