From The Illusion of “Peace in Exchange for Territories”: Since the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, Arab leaders have repeated the mantra that peace with Israel hinges upon a withdrawal to the pre-1967 border. Yet it remains unclear whether the Palestinians will be satisfied with a homeland in the West Bank and Gaza following an Israeli withdrawal to the “green line.” Palestinian insistence on the refugees’ right of return, ending the Jewish majority in the State of Israel, indicates hostile intent. Relations between Israel and its Palestinian and Arab neighbors are not dominated by the issue of disputed territory, but by
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Read More +From CBCNews: The Israeli government overwhelmingly approved the appointment of the country’s first Muslim cabinet minister Sunday, Raleb Majadele. Israel’s parliament has always had Arab lawmakers — today, they number 13 members out of 120. But the country has had only one Arab cabinet minister before: Salah Tarif, a Druse, who was appointed in 2001 and forced to resign nine months later under a cloud of corruption allegations. This appointment was more contentiousbecause Muslim and Christian Arabs, unlike the Druse, do not serve in the army and have a far weaker identification with Israel. Arabs have been slowly taking on
Read More +In its annual report published Thursday, the Central Bureau of Statistics revealed that at the end of 2006, 76% of Israel’s residents were Jewish (5,393,600), 20% were Arabs (1,413,500), and 4% were of other nationalities (309,100). During 2006 some 19,900 new immigrants arrived in Israel, a number similar to 2004 and 2005.
Read More +Daniel Pipes, in Exploring the Strength of Ties to Jerusalem: Historically, the religious standing of Jerusalem for Muslims waxed and waned six times through 14 centuries. British rule over the city in 1917-48 galvanized a passion for Jerusalem that had been absent during the 400 years of Ottoman control. Throughout the Jordanian control of the walled city in 1948-67, Arabs largely ignored it. Jordanian radio broadcast Friday prayers not from Al-Aqsa mosque but from a minor mosque in Amman. The PLO’s founding Covenant, which dates from 1964, contains no mention of Jerusalem. Muslim interest in the city revived only with
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