Global National: Eric Sorensen: "Mideast peace talks" (2/09/2010) "Israeli and Palestinian leaers met today in Washington. The first face-to-face peace talks in almost two years. Both sides say a lasting peace deal is within reach despite recent violence, but that’s been promised before. Here’s Global National’s Washington bureau chief, Eric Sorenson." Watch this report online Send a letter to Global
Toronto Star: Mitch Potter: "After Washington launch, a sliver of hope" (3/09/2010) “Fledgling peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians survived their first precarious hurdle, as both sides departed Washington pledging to sit down face to face every two weeks in a year-long drive to end the seven-decade conflict. But expectations remained low for the U.S.-brokered negotiations, with Palestinian officials pointing to Israeli plans to resume expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank as an early deal-breaker.” Write a letter to the editor Submit a comment online
Globe and Mail: Rick Salutin "At 7, a terror suspect" (3/09/2010) “I met Abdullah, the seven-year-old terror suspect, at a dinner near Toronto on Canada Day. He came last year from Gaza with his dad, Izzeldin Abuelaish, who’s here teaching global health at the med school, and five surviving siblings. His three oldest sisters were killed in their home in Gaza by Israeli shelling during the 2008 invasion. His mother died shortly before, of cancer. You can read about it in Dr. Abuelaish’s remarkable book, I Shall Not Hate. Abdullah has a sweet, mischievous look. Fireworks went off nearby and he asked his dad, Is it the Israelis? His dad reassured him.” Send a letter to the editorSubmit a comment online
CBC Photo Gallery: AP: "Wednesday: Rebuilding" (3/09/2010) "Jewish children throw material into a cement mixer during a symbolic ceremony to renew construction in the West Bank, in the Jewish settlement of Adam, near Ramallah, on Wednesday. Following Tuesday’s fatal shooting, Jewish settler leaders said they would unilaterally resume construction in West Bank settlements on Wednesday evening. At the Adam settlement near Jerusalem dozens gathered and prepared cement for the rebuilding."
CBC Photo Gallery: Reuters: "Wednesday: Peace talks" (3/09/2010) "U.S. President Barack Obama, centre, walks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second from left, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, second from right, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, right, and Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak through Cross Hall on their way to the East Room for Middle East peace talks at the White House in Washington."
Globe and Mail: Paul Koring: "Talk of Mideast peace emerges from Obama-brokered meeting" (3/09/2010) “Glimmers of hope that Palestinian-Israeli talks will finally herald peace after decades of failure, recrimination, bloodshed and despair emerged Thursday from a meeting brokered by U.S. President Barack Obama. “The people of Israel and I, as their Prime Minister, are prepared to walk this road and to go a long way in a short time to achieve a genuine peace,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose embracing of the process and willingness to accept an independent Palestine has made the prospect of a deal within a year a viable possibility.” Send a letter to the editorSubmit a comment online
