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US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the media after a meeting with Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah in January, 2014 (Reuters/Brendan Smialowski)

John Kerry’s peace plan to recognize Israel as “Jewish state”

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 12, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—According to a leaked report published in an Israeli newspaper on Tuesday, an outline Israeli–Palestinian peace agreement being drawn up by US Secretary of State John Kerry will include the recognition of Israel as a “Jewish state.” The...

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Palestinian youths walk past Israel’s controversial separation barrier at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, where thousands of Muslim worshippers queued to cross into Jerusalem on August 4, 2013 on their way to attend the Lailat al-Qadr night prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the last week of the holy month of Ramadan. (AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI.)

Opinion: The Secret Life of Palestine

by Bakir Oweida | Aug 9, 2013 | Opinion

Happy Eid? I have to admit that I have borrowed the word “pessoptimism” from the title of the tragicomic novel The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (1974) by the late Palestinian novelist Emile Habibi. Were the author alive, he would immediately ask me to be...