Feb 11, 2009

Palestine News Roundup: Close Elections, Distant Peace

Secret Israeli database reveals full extent of illegal settlement (Ha'aretz)

Rival parties in Israel each claim the right to lead (International Herald Tribune)

Livni: ‘Peace does not belong to the Left’ (JTA)

HOW THEY VOTED: See Israel election results by city and sector (Ha'aretz)

Netanyahu and Yishai: Israel needs Likud-led rightist government (Ha'aretz)

Panel allows far-rightist Marzel to oversee Arab city poll (Haaretz)

Fayyad: PA will make ‘pragmatic’ demands of any Israeli government (Ma’an news agency)

Anti-Israel protests gain momentum at UK universities (Mathaba)

Arab press despair as Israel votes (BBC News)

Leader: War on Gaza enters new phase (Press TV)

Russia hopes new Israeli government will be committed to peace (Novosti)

Israel votes, Palestinians groan (Reuters)

Arabs fear rise of Israeli rightist bloc (Jerusalem Post)

Palestinians say next Israeli government cannot bring peace (Reuters)

UN appoints panel of inquiry to probe deaths at Gaza compounds (Ha'aretz)

Student blogger arrested at peaceful march in Egypt (Amnesty International)

UK diplomat arrested over alleged tirade at Israel (Associated Press)

German-Egyptian blogger freed in Cairo (IHT)

Iranian Overture Might Complicate Relations With Israel (New York Times)

COMMENTARY

Tobin Harshaw: In Israel, Victory for All? Or None? (New York Times)

Aluf Benn: OPINION / For the sake of peace, Labor and Kadima must merge (Ha'aretz)

Spiegel database of settlements plotted (Google Maps)

Robert Naiman: Can Mitchell Succeed? Let Him Talk to Hamas (Huffington Post)

Dr. Haidar Eid: Gaza 2009: Culture of resistance vs. defeat (EI)

Israel's age of fragmentation (The Guardian)

Your Views: Will the peace process survive Israeli election results? (Al Jazeera)

Shimon Peres: Two is better than one: Only the peaceful coexistence of Palestinian and Jewish states offers a realistic and just solution in the Middle East (guardian.co.uk)

Stephen Walt: What do we do if the "two-state" solution collapses? (Foreign Policy)