Tag : two-state solution
We can’t just sit this one out
“Maybe we should just sit this round out.”
That’s what a long-time supporter of two states said to me the other day questioning whether, with all the upheaval in the Middle East, now is really the time for Israel to pursue a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
Underlying the question is the assumption that if the risks of pursuing two states seem too great, maybe it’s better to just accept the status quo.
J Street Responds to Israeli, Palestinian Meeting in Amman
WASHINGTON— J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami issued the following statement in response to the meetings between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators held in Amman today.
“J Street welcomes the news that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators held meetings today in Amman, hosted by the Jordanian government and joined by representatives of the Quartet.
Jeremy Ben-Ami on ‘what pro-Israel should mean’ in the Washington Post
Jeremy Ben-Ami is president of J Street, a Washington-based nonprofit that advocates a diplomatic resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the author of “A New Voice for Israel.”
Word on the Street: Time to Lead
Let’s be honest: events in recent weeks around the UN meeting could have driven even the strongest of us to despair. How do you not feel desperate when the President of the United States won’t use the word “settlements,” the Israeli Prime Minister won’t talk of the 1967 lines with swaps as the basis for
J Street On The UN
With the pending approach of the Palestinians to the United Nations for membership this September, J Street has just issued a policy paper which urges the continuation of serious diplomatic efforts by the United States and the international community to avert a showdown, calls on the Palestinians to defer their application, and supports the United States’ declared intention to veto the application at the Security Council. J Street also issued an open letter calling on the American Jewish community to shift the energy it is putting into defeating the Palestinian initiative at the UN into promoting the urgency of a two-state resolution to the conflict. In an email to the J Street community today, J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami reaffirmed the movement’s deep commitment to a Palestinian state – because it is so vital to Israel’s security, democratic character and Jewish nature to achieve a two-state solution.
