Obama: Dim Hope For End To Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
“Netanyahu, in the election run-up, stated that a Palestinian state would not occur while he was prime minister,” Obama said. “And I took him at his word that that’s what he meant.
“Netanyahu, in the election run-up, stated that a Palestinian state would not occur while he was prime minister,” Obama said. “And I took him at his word that that’s what he meant.
Against the backdrop of AIPAC, Israeli Apartheid Week, Netanyahu’s upcoming address to Congress, and Iran’s nuclear talks with the U.S., activists and demonstrators find a perfect storm for protesting Israel’s actions on a number of fronts.
NEW YORK, March 1 - Demonstrators rallied outside the News Corp. Building to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States. NEW YORK --- Dozens of demonstrators in New York braved driving snow on Sunday to
Joe Catron is a MintPress News contributing journalist. He covers Palestine and Israel and other human rights issues. Catron has written frequently for Electronic Intifada and Middle East Eye, and co-edited The Prisoners' Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag, an anthology of accounts by detainees freed in the 2011 prisoner exchange.