Oded Granot

• Hamas Split On Cease-Fire ; Reports Say Mashaal Won't Budge

The Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip is ready to accept a cease- fire with Israel, but the organization's spiritual leader in Damascus, Khalid Mashaal, refuses to make the necessary concessions, according to Israeli television reports last night. The Arab affairs analyst on Channel Two, Ehud Ya'ari, said the dispute amounts to a split between the two Hamas centers of power.

... One by that station's Arab affairs reporter, Oded Granot. Otherwise, a cease-fire seemed a distant p...

• The Washington Times
• January 12, 2009

• Palestinian Political Crisis Resolved; Premier Withdraws Resignation, but It Is Unclear for How Long

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - The Palestinians resolved a 10-day political crisis when the prime minister withdrew his resignation Tuesday, but there was no certainty that Yasser Arafat will give up his stranglehold over the security forces or that Palestinians will see any benefit in their daily lives. Arafat and Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia embraced after emerging from a Cabinet meeting in which the Palestinian leader promised to let Cabinet ministers do their jobs. They agreed to enforce power structures already in place that Arafat until now has blocked.

...Another analyst, Oded Granot, called it a "momentary reconciliation.". M...

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• July 28, 2004

• Israel Challenges Report On Nukes

Israeli officials yesterday disputed the conclusions of Monday's surprise U.S. assessment of Iran's nuclear program, citing "clear and solid intelligence" that Iran is continuing to develop nuclear weapons to threaten Israel and Europe. We have no doubt," said one Israeli official, who requested to remain anonymous. "If one looks at the investment, if one looks at the nature of the project, if you look at the cost to the Iranian economy, there is no logical explanation other than that the Iranian program is not benign.

...Oded Granot, a commentator on Channel 1, who, like Mr. ...

• The Washington Times
• December 05, 2007

• Hezbollah Says Its War with Israel Was a Mistake ; Sheik Nasrallah Regrets July 12 Capture of Troops

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said yesterday that he would not have ordered the July 12 seizure of two Israeli soldiers had he known it would provoke a war that leveled Shi'ite villages and neighborhoods throughout Lebanon. We did not think, even 1 percent, that the capture would lead to a war at this time and of this magnitude. You ask me, if I had known on July 11 .. that the operation would lead to such a war, would I do it? I say no, absolutely not," he told Lebanon's New TV station.

... score in the Lebanese domestic arena," said Oded Granot, the Middle East affairs commentator on Isr...

• The Washington Times
• August 28, 2006

• Sharon, Abbas to Declare Truce ; Meeting Spreads 'Sense of Hope'

Four years and thousands of lives after the failure of a summit between Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat, their successors will sit down here today after an announcement yesterday that the two will declare a formal truce, followed by substantive negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and newly inaugurated Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are expected to deliver mutual declarations on a truce.

... the difficult problems for later," said Oded Granot, an Arab affairs commentator for Israel's p...

• The Washington Times
• February 08, 2005

• South Africa and the Middle East.

..., since 1996, with the departure of Elazar Granot, Liel's "more overtly left-wing" successor, Israel...(See Arye Oded, Africa and the Middle East Conflict [Boulder, CO:...

• Middle East Policy
• Vol. 17 Nbr. 3, September 2010