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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 563

Geneva Initiative

A view from Basher al-Barghouthi square, Ramallah, May 23, 2024 (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)
May 23, 2024, 4:56 pm
In Ramallah, Palestinians welcome recognition by 3 countries with cautious optimism
Residents celebrate diplomatic achievement but say that more pressure is needed on Israel to realize a two-state solution, whether from the US, Arab states or international courts
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Labor MK Gilad Kariv at a Constitution Committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 29, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 31, 2023, 2:34 pm
Opposition MK holds rare meeting with Palestinian officials in Ramallah
Labor’s Gilad Kariv holds first public sit-down with PA by a Jewish Israeli lawmaker in over a year to promote dialogue and advance ‘alternative vision’ distinct from government’s
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Palestinian protesters attend a demonstration against the Evyatar settlement outpost, south of Nablus, on June 4, 2021, in the West Bank. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
February 7, 2022, 7:09 pm
Israeli, Palestinian public figures propose two-state confederation plan
Former justice minister Yossi Beilin and Hiba Husseini, a former legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team, to present outline to UN and US officials
By Agencies
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 19, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90/pool)
December 22, 2021, 5:22 pm
Poll finds slim majority of Israelis back Bennett meeting Palestinian leader Abbas
In survey from dovish Geneva Initiative, 51% support a summit, including 40% of voters from PM’s right-wing Yamina party; 49% of respondents favor direct talks with Hamas
By ToI Staff
Protesters carry a placard which reads in Hebrew 'no to annexation' as they gather in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on June 6, 2020, to denounce Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
June 7, 2020, 8:33 pm
More Israelis oppose West Bank annexation than support it — survey
Poll by dovish Geneva Initiative contradicts findings from another recent study, which saw a plurality of Israelis back the move
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A new housing project being built in the Israeli settlement of Nokdim on October 24, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
March 26, 2018, 4:29 am
Most new West Bank homes being built in ‘isolated settlements’ — monitor
Peace Now figures show slight decrease in number of construction starts in past year, but 78% of new homes are well beyond Green Line, and thousands more are in the pipeline
By Jacob Magid
Yossi Beilin at the Israel Conference on Democracy in Tel Aviv, February 17, 2015. (Amir Levy/Flash90)
July 12, 2016, 11:48 am
State bars ex-minister, peace activists from Ramallah
Defense Ministry claims ‘security considerations,’ but sources say political motive behind nixing of meeting between Yossi Beilin and with PA liaison
By Dov Lieber
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 31, 2015. (Flash90)
August 27, 2015, 6:18 pm
Abbas reopens peace NGO in wake of EU pressure
Move reverses a presidential order to shutter the Palestinian Peace Coalition run by rival Yasser Abed Rabbo
By ToI Staff
Israeli Likud and Shas party members meet with senior Palestinian officials Yasser Abed Rabbo and Nabil Shaath at the PLO offices in Ramallah, July 7, 2013 (Mati Milstein/Flash90)
August 20, 2015, 6:21 pm
Palestinian official denies closure of local peace group
As critics accuse Mahmoud Abbas of targeting rival Yasser Abed Rabbo, PA official claims shuttering of Ramallah’s Geneva Initiative branch is merely a bureaucratic misunderstanding
By Elhanan Miller
Adina Bar-Shalom, the daughter of the late Shas spirtual leader, Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. (Flash90)
March 10, 2015, 7:34 pm
Daughter of Shas’s late spiritual leader ‘fears’ far-right coalition
After Deri throws support behind Netanyahu, Adina Bar-Shalom says party will push for Palestinian state ‘with all its might’
By ToI Staff
Then-opposition leader Isaac Herzog meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. on December 1, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90/File)
September 16, 2014, 6:36 pm
Israel’s power-starved left seeks its political fortunes in the center
Shut out of government for a generation, Labor is shifting its tone, arguing that the right offers no hope of peace and, after this summer’s conflict, that it can’t win wars either
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael B. Oren speaks in Tel Aviv on December 16, 2013. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)
February 26, 2014, 6:25 am
If peace talks fail: Michael Oren’s Plan B
Reopen the option of unilaterally withdrawing from the West Bank, former envoy to US urges, lest we ‘outsource our fundamental destiny to Palestinian decision making’
By Raphael Ahren
Irena Kalhousová
December 13, 2013, 8:20 am
Irena Kalhousová
Geneva is not Munich
Unlike Czechoslovakia in 1938, Israel is neither helpless to defend itself, nor is it alone in the world
Former Shin-Bet Director Yuval Diskin speaking at conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the Geneva Initiative, December 4, 2013. (photo credit: Shalom Anasi)
December 4, 2013, 11:19 pm
Ex-Shin Bet chief: Iranian threat dwarfed by danger of failed peace talks
Diskin says ‘tremendous’ Palestinian frustration could trigger conflict; sources close to PM: Diskin disgruntled over Mossad post
By Spencer Ho
Benjamin Netanyahu, center, walking to a cabinet meeting Sunday, with Gil Shefer at right. (photo credit: Miri Tzahi/ Pool/ Flash90)
July 8, 2013, 4:00 pm
Netanyahu said to have met secretly with Palestinian leaders
Former PA minister tells Knesset he and others negotiated with the prime minister, warns of violence if political process doesn’t show results
By Gavriel Fiske
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