Category Archives: Seek Peace and Pursue it

MK Isaac Herzog proposes that Israel announce immediately that it supports the United Nations resolution to establish a Palestinian state. Herzog, who is contending for the Labor Party leadership, has recently formulated a new peace plan. According to his plan, whose details Haaretz has obtained, Israel would recognize a Palestinian state whose borders will be set in negotiations between the sides, ratify the Clinton plan, freeze construction beyond the separation fence and enact legislation to …

On July 26, 1994, Yitzhak Rabin addressed the United States Congress during a unique convention, in which both houses of Congress honored Yitzhak Rabin, then Prime Minister of Israel, and King Hussein of Jordan. This was a momentous occasion in the long and often difficult struggle for peace between nations having a history of war, and there is much we can learn from Rabin’s words to his own people, to the Jordanian leader and his people, and to their American hosts. In particular, I think …

1. The Israel Labor Party welcomes President Obama’s vision and his statements on the changes in the Middle East and considers the advent of democracies and the advancement of human rights in our region as important parts of this vision. 2. The vision of two states for two people, that is the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, is a strategic national interest of the State of Israel. The Israel Labor Party supports this vision and will act to advance it. 3. President …

As I celebrate Passover this year, I will be thinking not only of my people’s distant past but also of our recent past and our future. I will be thinking of the fact that we will soon mark 44 years of Israel’s rule over another people and pondering why Israel’s leaders – and ours – have not yet found a way to rid the Jewish state of this moral, economic, political and security burden. I will be thinking of the profound positive benefits that an Israeli- Palestinian peace accord would …

The State of Israel, • Reaffirming that Israel’s strategic objective is to reach a historic compromise and permanent status agreements that shall determine the finality of all claims and the end of the Israeli-Arab conflict, in order to achieve permanent and lasting peace, lasting and guaranteed security, regional economic prosperity and normal ties with all Arab and Islamic states, • Recognizing the suffering of the Palestinian refugees since the 1948 war as well as of the Jewish refugees …

Natalie Portman’s award winning performance in Black Swan has renewed interest in the ballet Swan Lake. The ballet itself has the hopeless feel of a Greek tragedy where nothing can be done to prevent the inevitable heartbreaking outcome. Too often the Arab-Israeli conflict has the same feel. With events in the Middle East unfolding in a dramatic fashion, along with its unknown consequences for the Arab-Israeli conflict, I went to see the State Ballet Theatre of Russia perform Swan Lake. As …