I just listened to U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle EastGeorgeMitchell's press conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the other day. Given the...
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- GeorgeMitchell, the former US senator from Maine who helped hammer out a peace agreement in Northern Ireland, did not look daunted when he took the podium today to announce that Israel had...
Fadi Elsalameen , Publisher of The Palestine Note , and I interviewed J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami about a number of issues in the wake of J Street's highly successful national policy conference last month. In this clip, Ben-Ami responds to questions about Iran, Obama's foreign policy course, the effectiveness of Israel-Palestine Envoy GeorgeMitchell, and about the task...
From NBC's Susan KrollSpecial envoy for Mideast peace GeorgeMitchell told reporters today that the Israelis' announcment to limit settlement construction for 10 months to try to revive peace negotiations with the Palestinians could mark a step toward restarting peace talks. "It falls short of a full settlement freeze, but it is more than any Israeli government has done before and...
Obama and GeorgeMitchell are sending out spies to Jewish towns. One theory is that it is to prevent more Gilo gaffs, as until now, Obama administration people have shown a complete lack of knowledge on the ground of the ground. But more likely it is to just see what they want to destroy. Here is an article by Ben Caspit of Maariv (no link yet. I'm working on it) via David Bedein. Ma'ariv...
... gevraagd worden. Of de Palestijnen verkijken zich dit keer op de zaak... RP ---------------- Mitchell, Clinton welcome Israel settlement moratorium By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent, and Agencies http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1130654.html The Obama administration welcomed Israel's decision Wednesday to freeze new construction in settlements in the West Bank temporarily as...
The Obama administration was so excited by Israel's declaration of a temporary 'settlement freeze' on Wednesday that the State Department arranged a special press conference with US Middle East envoy GeorgeMitchell. Here's that press conference. A transcript and some discussion will follow.Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Mememorandum).And here's the transcript: MR. WOOD: Good afternoon,...
In this report, it's told that GeorgeMitchell tried to pressure the Israeli government to stop building in the Gilo neighborhood:(IsraelNN.com) U.S. Middle East envoy GeorgeMitchell reportedly asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, during one of their recent meetings, to freeze a construction project of dozens of housing units in Gilo. Netanyahu turned him down.[...]Netanyahu...
Ladies and gentlemen, The Godfather of Gas, the Santa Claus of Shale, the Wizard of The Woodlands, Mr. GeorgeMitchell. (Nick de la Torre/Chronicle) This weekend we wrote about the important role GeorgeMitchell and Mitchell Energy played in...
Houston oilman and developer GeorgeMitchell's persistence in trying to coax energy from stubborn formations laid the foundation for the emergence of shale natural gas as a potentially huge energy source.
U.S. Middle East envoy GeorgeMitchell has assured Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the U.S. stance regarding the Israeli settlement has not been changed, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Tuesday. GeorgeMitchell, who met Abbas Monday evening in Jordan, said "Washington considers the settlement activities illegal and refuses the Israeli attempts...
A senior Palestinian official said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to hold talks later Monday night with U.S. peace envoy GeorgeMitchell in the Jordanian capital Amman. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that Abbas would arrive in Amman from Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, on Monday evening to meet Mitchell, who is already thereon a...
U.S. Middle East envoy GeorgeMitchell on Monday emphasized his country's commitment to working "seriously" to bring about peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis based on the two-state solution. &$ &$Jordan's King Abdullah II (R) meets with U.S. Mideast special envoy GeorgeMitchell in Amman, capital of Jordan, Nov. 2, 2009. (Xinhua Photo)&$...
Amman - Jordan's King Abdullah II conferred Monday with USMiddle East envoy GeorgeMitchell, underlining the leading US role in ensuring the relaunch of serious peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel, according to a royal court s...
Jerusalem - Washington's special envoy to the Middle East ended a more than two-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday, preparing the ground for a one-day visit by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. GeorgeMitchell...