The View from a Divided Palestine

With less than a month before the planned Annapolis peace summit, the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program will be hosting Mustafa Barghouti in conversation with Rita Hauser to look at the expectations, opportunities and risks of renewed U.S. peace efforts.

This is the first in a series of events hosted by New America's Middle East Initiative that look at the landscape in the run-up to the Annapolis conference.

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[imfromjenin]

Jewish settlements constructed on stolen Palestinian land and inhabited by extremist Jewish fanatics that harass and murder Palestinians on Palestinian land... A wall that usurps and swallows in settlements and divides Palestinians. An Apartheid system of the worst fashion...

[kithp]

44 minutes: looking at map Barghoti shows the original 47 division - but he leaves out the most important message! The Arabs rejected it!

[kithp]

I expected better, an outright lie from Mr Bargouti regarding the Fence/Wall. Why don't you tell the truth? Yes it is large ugly wall in a MINORITY of areas, but the overwhelming majority of a wall is a fence! Tell the truth. Enough propaganda.

[kithp]

So lets see Mr Barghouti is a "Moderate" but he is upset that the world did not support a government with a terrorist group (Hamas) Inside it!?

[1ogik]

Oh boy. Clamoring about the pseudo-issues!! Jewish settlements that Israel has proved it will eagerly uproot; a wall that prevents further humanitarian suffering for Jewish AND Arab Israelis; the status of Gaza (a rift created as Palestinians slaughtered each other in the streets; and an economic situation exasperated by reckless anti-progress extremism and isolationism. Peace can be achieved. Do not let issues like jewish settlements or Palestinian rockets erase what's left of that prospect.