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When the Sharon government uprooted the Jewish residents of Gaza, former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn personally bought the hothouses of the evicted Jews for millions so they could be delivered intact to the Palestinians. This was intended to help underpin the Gazan Arabs economically and strengthen the presumed peace that he expected to see flourishing after Israel's surrender of the territory. The Palestinians promptly burned the hothouses as a prelude to how peace with Gaza, and their governance of it, would look. The PA rebuilt them. But Wolfensohn had shown the Arabs that his heart was in the right...

Thank God for New Castle, New York Democrat (of course) Councilman Michael Wolfensohn. This week, in an incredible display of bravery and foresight, he prevented what could have been a catastrophe and a miscarriage of justice. All Americans owe him a debt of gratitude. Here's the story. Last month, two nefarious Jewish 13-year-olds by the sinister names of Andrew and Kevin decided to set up a bake stand selling cupcakes, cookies, brownies, and Rice Krispie treats for a buck a piece in the local park. The first day, the two delinquents pulled in $120. They spent $60 of that cash...

Hamas cannot bomb Israel out of existence. Hamas has dropped ten thousand rockets on civilian targets in Sderot since 2001. Hamas' suicide bombers have killed hundreds of Israelis eating in restaurants, dancing in discos, and riding on buses. None of this has or will remotely achieve Hamas' avowed goal of destroying Israel. On December 19, Hamas declared an end to a temporary and frequently breached truce with Israel and launched a major rocket attack on Sderot timed to coincide with the end of the school day. In response, Israel did what any nation state would be expected to do; it...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Western nations must prepare for a future dominated by China and India, whose rapid economic rise will soon fundamentally alter the balance of power, former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn has warned. Wealthy countries were failing to understand the impact of the invevitable growth of the two Asian powerhouses, Wolfensohn said in the 2006 Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture at the University of New South Wales at the weekend. "It's a world that is going to be in the hands of these countries which we now call developing," said Australian-born Wolfensohn, who held the top job at the...

The Rafah Agreement is against the law, common sense and prudence by Ted Belman Every since the Roadmap was introduced, I railed against the stipulations that Palestine be created and that it be viable and contiguous. These should be matters for negotiation. More recently I admonished Israel to Reject the Link arguing only that she wasn’t obligated to provide it. Now that Israel has accepted the Rafah Agreement the land link appears more ominous. David Hornik in his article Folly in Gaza:The Sequal, reports, “Since the disengagement, 35 Gazan export trucks have gone through it daily. Under the agreement, this...

Last week, the bickering between the Israelis and Palestinians over the arrangements on reopening the Rafah border crossing was so bad that the Quartet's envoy, James Wolfensohn, threatened to give up and go home after months of failing to secure a solution. In walked U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and within hours, the two sides almost magically reached a deal to reopen the crossing. The fact that the disputes over the border's reopening were resolved so quickly after Rice arrived in the region is proof - if any more proof were needed - that American involvement in the Palestinian-Israeli...

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005 How Rice Won a Mideast Deal Behind the scenes of the Secretary of State's all-nighter to open Palestinian border crossings By ELAINE SHANNON/JERUSALEM When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived at Palestinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah Monday morning, Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayad knew it was her 51st birthday. He said he had a present that wouldn't exceed the government gift limit. He reached into a brown paper supermarket bag and pulled out a shiny green bell pepper. “These are really good,” Fayyad said. “These are not quite ready yet. In two more weeks they'll be...

JERUSALEM, Israel (UPI) -- With U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seeming to breath down their necks, Israeli and the Palestinian officials were reportedly nearing an agreement on opening the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Rice met Israeli and Palestinians leaders in Jerusalem and Ramallah Monday, traveled to Jordan, but rather than proceed to South Korea was returning to Jerusalem, a U.S. diplomat confirmed. Her return was an apparent effort to prod the sides to compromise and thus end a de facto closure of the Gaza Strip. Israel evacuated that area in September ending a 38-...

Joint Press Availability With European Union High Representative Javier Solana and Quartet Special Envoy Jim Wolfensohn Secretary Condoleezza Rice David Citadel Hotel Jerusalem November 15, 2005 SECRETARY RICE: Good morning. Two months ago, Israel and the Palestinian Authority took an unprecedented step on the road to peace with the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, returning control of that territory to the Palestinian people. Israeli and Palestinian leaders have been hammering out practical arrangements to gain the benefits of that withdrawal and improve conditions in the rest of the Palestinian territories. I am pleased to be able to announce today...

Wolfensohn fed up with delays, threatens to pick up marbles and go home By Associated Press November 13, 2005 International Mideast envoy James Wolfensohn on Sunday warned that time is running out for Israel and the Palestinians to wrap up a deal on opening the Gaza Strip's border crossings, saying it would be a "tragedy" if an agreement isn't reached soon. The fate of the border crossings is one of the most important unresolved issues in the wake of Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in September. Israel closed Gaza's border with Egypt shortly before the pullout, and has restricted the...

When James Wolfensohn and Mort Zuckerman raised $14 million to buy the Gush Katif hothouses from Israeli farmers to give to the Palestinians, many people were surprised. "We thought it was a chance to show the Palestinians that there were more benefits from cooperation than confrontation," Zuckerman explained. Zuckerman's New York Daily News reported on September 22 that "a week after they [Palestinians] descended like locusts on the greenhouses... looters continue to pillage what should be a prize asset for a fledgling Palestinian state." In response to this wanton destruction, Zuckerman said, "I'm just sad that they are cutting off...

Oct. 25, 2005 20:43 Mofaz off to Cairo to meet Mubarak By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz flies to Cairo Wednesday for a one-day meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to discuss border crossing arrangements with the Gaza Strip. The sudden invitation to Cairo came following Mubarak's meeting on Monday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who stopped in Egypt to brief Mubarak on his talks with US President Bush in Washington last week. It also comes amid criticism by a top Mideast envoy for dragging its feet over opening the Gaza border. Mofaz's visit will also include a meeting...

Tuesday, October 11, 2005 01:22 IST JNW HEADLINE NEWS Analysis: The Wolfensohn threat By Ryan Jones October 10th, 2005 Former World Bank head and new top Quartet envoy James Wolfensohn has been a very busy man since Israel's “disengagement” from the Gaza Strip, a move he helped in large part to push through. Notwithstanding the completion of that withdrawal, Wolfensohn has joined the “Palestinians” in insisting Gaza remains occupied by virtue of Israel retaining to a large degree control over what enters and exits the Strip. In order to remedy that insufferable situation, Wolfensohn last week helped broker a deal...

Surrounded by heavily armed guards, international Mideast envoy James Wolfensohn toured the Erez border crossing – slated to be privatized after disengagement - Wednesday to witness the process that some 10,000 Palestinians experience daily as they enter Israel to work. Wolfensohn said after his predawn tour that there is a "need for improvement" at Erez, the main crossing for Gaza Palestinians who work in Israel. Wolfensohn, a former president of the World Bank, is now an international coordinator for economic issues surrounding Israel's upcoming withdrawal from Gaza. At 5 a.m., hundreds of workers lay snoozing on the cold concrete parking...

Don't deposit Wolfowitz with us, plead World Bank workers Julian Borger in Washington Saturday March 19, 2005 The Guardian Washington's nomination of Paul Wolfowitz as the World Bank's next president has triggered an outcry among the bank's staff, who have demanded the right to have a say in his confirmation, it emerged yesterday. The staff association has met the bank's executives to voice its concerns after it was swamped with complaints from employees over the selection of Mr Wolfowitz, the US deputy defence secretary and one of the architects of the Iraq war. One bank employee said yesterday: "When you...

The World Bank on Tuesday chastised rich countries for not giving enough to fund global environmental protection and warned that overall progress in meeting global environmental targets was "alarmingly slow." In an annual report entitled "Environment Matters," the World Bank said aid for the environment averaged about $2 billion a year over the past decade, far less than well-off societies agreed during a major environment summit in Brazil in 1992. The report estimated that protecting the environment in developing countries amounted to about $2.50 per person a year in rich countries, less than the current price for a gallon of...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States and other rich nations should forgive at least two-thirds of Iraq's massive foreign debt in order to give the country a chance at economic recovery, World Bank President James Wolfensohn said Wednesday.</p> <p>In an appearance at the National Press Club, Wolfensohn predicted "quite a lot of arm twisting" on the issue of debt forgiveness over the next year among rich countries that are owed an estimated $120 billion by Iraq.</p>

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Rich countries face "a moment of truth" over their plan to halve global poverty, which is endangered by turmoil in global stock markets and the threat of war against Iraq, the World Bank warned yesterday. James Wolfensohn, the Bank's president, said the west must "put its money where its mouth is" and stump up the cash to meet the agreed target of halving the number of people living on less than a dollar a day by 2015. "The time has come to move from words to action to implement this new deal between rich countries and poor countries," he said....