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rief, Thursday, 26 May, 2011 UNSCO Daily Press Brief Thursday, 26 May, 2011 Diplomacy: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday dismissed Benjamin Netanyahu's outline of a peace deal as a non-starter and said he is now setting his sights on UN recognition of a Palestinian state in the fall. (AP) Speaking

UN recognition of a Palestinian state in the fall. (AP) Speaking at the opening of a meeting for the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, Abbas said Netanyahu "has shown us, in addition to the many mistakes and distortions that he moved very far from the peace process. There was nothing that we could buil

in anything Israel wanted, including the newest weapons, NATO membership, maybe even EU membership. It could be a security windfall for Israel. Does Bibi have any surprise in him or do the Palestinians have him right: a big faker, hiding a nationalist-religious agenda under a cloak of security?" Gaza

ons posed by the Palestinians and not under Israel's conditions. Dagan said that Israeli acceptance of the move could actually minimize the damage. (Maariv) Columnist Ari Shavit writes in Haaretz that "Netanyahu missed the last chance that history will give him. In another few months, reality will come

3 Article 1. The Wall Street Journal What a Final Iran Deal Must Do Henry A. Kissinger And George P. Shultz Article 2. The Daily Beast Memo to Netanyahu: It's Time to Build an Arsenal of Awe Lloyd Green Article 3. Washington Post Ousting Assad may be only the beginning David Ignatius Article 4.

—isn't going to work. Time for Plan B: Work with the U.S. on joint technology investment and deployment to safeguard against asymmetrical attacks. Bibi, you're off your game—Plan A didn't work. The United States and the rest of the •. Security Council have lined up in favor of a deal with Iran. Wi

ements. It is difficult to measure Allen's effort directly. But it is possible to see evidence of the consternation it is causing in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's effort to challenge the notions at the heart of Allen's and more broadly the Kerry-led policy to facilitate a negotiated agreement. So, for examp

nyahu added, "but first among them will be that the state of Israel's security border remains along the Jordan [River]." According to the report in Maariv on Nov. 3, "In Netanyahu's eyes, creation of a fence may also send a message to the Palestinians opposed to an Israeli presence along the Jordan Ri

ct was getting a lot of attention: Iran's nuclear program. April 28 was Holocaust Remembrance Day, and that was the context in which Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke about Iran at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. Netanyahu discussed the world's blind refusal to see what was coming in the 1930s despite a

dogs (and not a few political pundits) worry about Adelson's growing influence. Adelson is an avid supporter and long-time friend of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "As a very strong backer of Prime Minister Netanyahu — not that there's anything wrong with it — Adelson owns a paper that is rarely, if ever, cr

n will now also control the main religious daily, Makor Rishon, which caters to Israel's Zionist religious right, and NRG, the news Web site of the Maariv newspaper, which has faced a multitude of financial woes in the past few years. While the antitrust authority decided that Adelson's acquisitions a

lapsed. (Mann News) Shalit• Germany says Israel accepted a proposal by a German mediator to free Gilad Shalit, but Hamas did not sign off on it. PM Netanyahu said that he had accepted the proposal, but Hamas rejected the deal. It is thought to include hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Sha

sible for the fatal outcome of the previous flotilla. Military officials said that the activists are planning to kill as many soldiers as possible. (Maariv) Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman described the flotilla participants as "terror activists, seeking to create provocation and looking for