The world may be watching for negotiations between Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Leader Abu Mazen. But a different set of negotiations recently inside Israel could signal that the peace process is heading in a slightly different direction. Israeli Histadrut chief Amir Peretz, who negotiated for two years with the current Israeli Labor […]
Jo-Ann Mort
Jo-Ann Mort writes frequently about Israel and Palestine for The American Prospect and other publications. She is co-author of Our Hearts Invented a Place: Can Kibbutzim Survive in Today’s Israel?. Follow @changecommnyc
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An Unsettling Delay
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s decision last week to postpone the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and four remote settlements in the West Bank highlighted just how high the stakes are for Israel. But it also showed the disconnect between many who live in the settlements and Israel’s political and military establishment. Believe it or not, […]
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The Secret Lives of Negotiators
Yossi Beilin is the leader of Yahad [successor party to Meretz], the Israeli Social Democratic Party, and was Israel’s justice minister from 1999 to 2001. He helped negotiate the Oslo Peace Accords in the 1990s and was also a negotiator at Camp David in 2000 with President Bill Clinton. On October 12, 2003, Beilin and […]