http://www.cnionline.org Advocating Middle East policies that serve the American national interest. Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:48:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.cnionline.org/64th-un-general-assembly-no-peace-deal-no-settlement-on-settlements/ http://www.cnionline.org/64th-un-general-assembly-no-peace-deal-no-settlement-on-settlements/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:45:42 +0000 Frederick http://www.cnionline.org/?p=797 (WASHINGTON, DC) September 23, 2009 –President Barack Obama‘s speech at the 64th UN General Assembly meeting displayed evidence that a lasting peace between the Israelis and Palestinians has made no new ground. If anything, the speech indicated the President’s plans to restart negotiations and retract his demand for Israel to end construction of illegal colonies. [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/64th-un-general-assembly-no-peace-deal-no-settlement-on-settlements/feed/ 0 http://www.cnionline.org/israel-approves-more-settlements-in-occupied-west-bank/ http://www.cnionline.org/israel-approves-more-settlements-in-occupied-west-bank/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:34:46 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=755 On Monday, the Israeli government officially authorized the expansion of West Bank settlements. With the approval of Ehud Barak, the Minister of Defense and leader of the Labor Party, 455 new units will be built in several settlements close both to Jerusalem and to the 1967 border. The move comes as parties try to finalize [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/israel-approves-more-settlements-in-occupied-west-bank/feed/ 0 http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-iii/ http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-iii/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:39:46 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=640 Principled Policy as a Last Resort Michael Thomas CNI Board Member American policy toward Hamas has been self defeating. From and after the elections of 2006, in the name of the war on terror, the US has dishonored its commitment to democratic institutions; has vigorously supported massive violations of international humanitarian and human rights law [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-iii/feed/ 1 http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-ii/ http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-ii/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:34:01 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=637 Hamas and Current American Policy Michael Thomas CNI Board Member Part I summarized what was learned about Hamas in meetings throughout the Levant in May of this year. In this Part II, we will consider information about Hamas from sources we did not talk to, and analyze current American policies and their evident effects. Hamas: [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-ii/feed/ 2 http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-i/ http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-i/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:29:46 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=635 Hamas as It and Its Neighbors See It Michael Thomas CNI Board Member The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has proven intractable for over six decades. In the past decade, even as Israel, Arab states and Fatah have seemed to be gravitating toward a two-state solution many blame a resistance organization designated terrorist by [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/what-to-make-of-hamas-part-i/feed/ 2 http://www.cnionline.org/yes-you-can/ http://www.cnionline.org/yes-you-can/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:19:36 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=591 By Uri Avnery FIRST, AN honest disclosure: I loved the Shepherd hotel very much. In the first years after the Six-Day War, I was a frequent guest there. My work in the Knesset demanded that I stay in Jerusalem at least two nights every week, and after the war I switched from the hotels of [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/yes-you-can/feed/ 0 http://www.cnionline.org/israels-naval-campaign-against-gaza/ http://www.cnionline.org/israels-naval-campaign-against-gaza/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:57:37 +0000 carlton http://www.cnionline.org/?p=473 By Brian Doyle CNI Staff Writer brian@cnionline.org Yesterday Israel continued its naval campaign against Gaza, seizing a ship from the US-based Free Gaza Movement that was attempting to enter the besieged Palestinian territory with a cargo of humanitarian supplies. The ship, Spirit of Humanity, had sailed from Cyprus but was stopped and boarded by the [...]]]> http://www.cnionline.org/israels-naval-campaign-against-gaza/feed/ 0