JTA reporters spent the three days leading up to the Palestinian statehood bid outside the U.N. building in New York City and recorded the rallies, voices, sounds and events. Video by Uri Fintzy and Dan Klein.
As reporter types and think tank types know, an interview can run to 20 minutes, and then depending on how your story’s shaping up, you get out of it a single sentence or two. That always means a lot of good stuff gets left out. So it was this week when I interviewed the Washington […]
And here’s what happened: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas formally applied for statehood recognition at the United Nations. In his speech to the General Assembly, Abbas outlined a vision for an independent Palestine that hewed to the two-state formula but also revived rhetoric that hearkened back to an era of Palestinian belligerence. Israeli Prime Minister […]