[QODLink]
Inside Story
Can peace be achieved?
We discuss if the new direct talks will overcome lingering Israeli-Palestinian divisions.
Last Modified: 02 Sep 2010 16:29 GMT

After months of US-sponsored indirect negotiations direct peace talks between Israel and Palestine are set to begin on Thursday after being frozen for more than 18 month.

Top level talks in search of the elusive peace deal broke off in 2008 when Israel invaded the Gaza Strip.

But with Hamas noticeably missing at the talks, can real peace be achieved? Is it time for the other players to recognise them?

Or could talks with the Palestinian Authority simply make Hamas less relevant?

Would the current Palestinian divide affect the ability of the Palestinian team headed by President Mahmoud Abbas to deliver?

Joining the programme are Michele Dunne, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Ezzedine Choukri, a professor of international politics at the American University in Cairo, and Dianna Buttu, a lawyer and former spokesperson with the Palestine Liberation Organisation.

This episode of Inside Story aired from Tuesday, August 31, 2010.
Source:
Al Jazeera
Topics in this article
People
Country
Organisation
Featured on Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera's exclusive publishing of a key Guantanamo prison military document lays bare the brutality of force-feeding.
Former military official says poverty and anger in indigenous communities mean conditions for an "insurgency" are ripe.
A four-part series that gives a rare insight into the country on the move, with history in tow.
Series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures.
Featured
China Rising
A four-part series that gives a rare insight into the country on the move, with history in tow.
Al-Nakba
Series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures.
Syria: The War Within
Two years since the start of the uprising, rebels and Assad's forces remain locked in conflict.
China angles for Arctic power
China aims to expand its influence in the resource rich area.
Crisis in Bangladesh
Extensive coverage of war crimes tribunals and controversial calls for blasphemy laws.
join our mailing list