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19th April 2007

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WELLINGTON YOUTH TO EXPLORE CROSS-CULTURAL CONFLICT THROUGH CREATIVE ARTS

Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority

Ismail Haniyeh outlines the basis for comprehensive peace

by Margaret Beckett British Foreign Secretary
The Deccan Chronicle
28 October 2006
http://www.deccan.com/Columnists/Columnists.asp#The%20way%20to%20a%20via... 20Palestine

by ELIAS DAVIDSSON
28 September 2006

Elias Davidsson argues that it is in the enlightened self-interest of Israeli Jews to accept the Palestinian refugees' right of return. Not to do so will "inevitably undermine the moral fabric of [Israel's] Jewish population and its capacity to sustain itself".

Behind the Wall - "The Blessed"
By RICH WILES
27 September 2006

BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
Bethlehem, Palestine, 26 September 2006 (E/20/06)
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R E P O R T
26 September 2006 (E/20/06)
Geneva: 25 September 2006:

by RACHELLE MARSHALL
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs August 2006
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/August_2006/0608007.html

Life under occupation is life under permanent terrorism. — Shai Carmeli-Pollak, Israeli film director and peace activist, quoted in the Israeli magazine, The Other Israel.

We need security, but we do not need foreign troops and helicopters and tanks anymore. — Hajii Agha Lalai Dastagiri, member of the provincial council in Kandahar, Afghanistan, New York Times, May 26.

Israel's "right to exist": does it exist?
by Scott Burchill
28 July 2006

Prime Minister Howard argues that "until there is an acceptance in the entire Arab world … of Israel's right to exist and an embrace of the two state solution, we're never going to have a lasting peace" in the Middle East. The refusal of Syria, Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas "to accept Israel's right to exist … is still at the core of the whole dispute."

Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Letter from World Council of Churches General Secretary to Members of the UN "Middle East quartet"
* Geneva, 8 February 2006

by Patrick Seale Dar Al-Hayat
14 April 2006
http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/04-2006/Article-20060414-98e3...

An extraordinary paradox of the current international scene is that the most powerful countries in the world are also the most afraid - and fear has caused them to lose their senses.