Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

Some major developments on the Palestinian side of the Mideast conflict. Mahmoud Abbas, in a move that has managed to shock both Hamas, Israel and the U.S., called on Hamas to accept the Hadarim peace proposal formulated largely by Marwan Barghouti and his fellow prisoners in Israeli jails (including many Hamas prisoners). The [...]

In a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Hamas foreign minister, Mahmoud Zahar, called Israel’s settlement expansion and Separation Barrier obstacles to peace. But the language he used to do so was striking and unusual for any Hamas leader and particularly for him, who is known as more hardline than his counterparts. [...]

Haaretz reports today that Bill Clinton was interviewed on BBC TV this weekend (why no link at the BBC site??) speaking of U.S. Mideast policy and specifically about our approach to the new Hamas government. He brought a breath of fresh air to the table compared to the stale stuff the Bush Administration and [...]