Charlie Rose with Shibli Telhami & Yossi Beilin; Kate Winslet & Michael Gondry; Helen Mirren (April 15, 2004)
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unwilling to make sufficient concessions on Jewish settlement building to stop the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, one of the Israeli architects of the deal that created it said on Wednesday. "Netanyahu is set to announce in the coming days that he will accept a construction freeze in the West Bank settlements for 10 months but will exclude...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
On the eve of the festive ceremony at which the Oslo Accords - or, as the document is officially called, the "Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements" - were signed, MK Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium in the Knesset and railed at Rabin that he was worse than Neville Chamberlain. "We will work with all the legitimate means at the disposal of the opposition...
Middle East Analysis (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
INSS Insight No. 122, August 7, 2009 Shalom, Zaki http://www.inss.org.il/research.php?cat=45&incat=&read=3150 In a Newsweek interview on June 22, 2009, former prime minister Ehud Olmert stated that in his talks with Mahmoud Abbas, he had made fairly detailed offers towards an Israeli-Palestinian settlement, including: a. Willingness by Israel to give the Palestinians 93.5-93.7 percent of the...
English Webster (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
It ain’t the first time Meretz seeks to change its name in an attempt to gain a broader public momentum. In 2003 Meretz brought in Yossi Beilin and temporarily changed its name to Yachad. This was the year Yossi Sarid resigned from its chairman position in Meretz, and the year when Meretz initiated a self-inflicting coma. Now, having survived 5 gloomy years, Meretz is trying to play the same...
Jewish Current Issues (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Nathan Guttman writes in Forward that Barack Obama’s chief of staff has in the past supported the Geneva Initiative – Yossi Beilin and Jimmy Carter’s 2003 effort to supplant the Roadmap: “Emanuel’s Record on Israel Is More Dovish Than the...
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
From The Jerusalem Post Are we to draw any lessons about the state of Israel's Zionist Left from the back-to-back announcements by former Meretz leader Yossi Beilin and veteran party stalwart Ran Cohen that they are retiring?
The Hedgehog Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
You may not have heard of Yossi Beilin, but you know his works. He is a politician on the far left of Israeli politics, having led the Meretz-Yachad party from 2003-2006. The roots of Meretz are in Mapai, a Stalinist pro-Soviet faction of the Israeli left that even managed to alienate the Israeli Labor Party led by David Ben-Gurion. In more recent years, Meretz was the most fervent advocate of withdrawal...
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Israel - The Knesset made history today when it swore in its first female Orthodox MK, just before it enters a pre-election recess on Monday. MK Tzvia Greenfield joined the Knesset on behalf of the Meretz Party, to replace retiring MK Yossi Beilin. Greenfield is a doctor of political philosophy, and her achievements include the [...]
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
In a too generous retrospective of Yossi Beilin’s career, Ethan Bronner writes: For the last two decades, the easiest way to invoke dovishness in Israel has been to utter the words “Yossi Beilin.” The politician who navigated mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the early 1990s and has never stopped believing, Mr. [...]
Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
In a too generous retrospective of Yossi Beilin's career, Ethan Bronner writes: For the last two decades, the easiest way to invoke dovishness in Israel has been to utter the words "Yossi Beilin." The politician who navigated mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the early 1990s and has never stopped believing, Mr. Beilin has a unique place in the...
Jerusalem News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Two arch-leftists recently announced their intention to drop out of politics and enter the private sector. On October 28, former Meretz Party head, "land-for-war" promoter Yossi Beilin said he was bowing out. Described as a co-architect of the Oslo "Peace" Process (along with Shimon Peres), Beilin is being "credited" with having changed the political landscape in Israel...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
Yossi Beilin, who navigated mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the early 1990s, revealed that he was leaving Parliament 20 years after he was first elected.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Veteran left-wing Israeli politician Yossi Beilin says he will retire from political life after February's general election.
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Yossi Beilin is removing himself from politics, about 20 years too late. Former Meretz head and a prominent leader of the left-wing camp, Knesset Member Yossi Beilin, announced that he will not be seeking a spot on his party’s Knesset roster in the upcoming elections. Dr. Beilin informed Meretz Chairman Chaim Oron of his decision on [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
An Israeli lawmaker who helped engineer the Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinians says he's done with parliamentary politics. Longtime dovish politician Yossi Beilin said Tuesday he would not seek another term in office when the country heads...
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