Netanyahu: Israel 'ready to negotiate Palestinian borders' - Telegraph

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has bowed to US pressure by agreeing for the first time that a Palestinian state should roughly follow the contours of the 1967 ceasefire lines separating the West Bank from Israel.

PM would accept pre-’67 lines as baseline for talks - JPost
"Jerusalem, while not endorsing the 1967 lines, would agree to language that would say that Israel recognizes that this is the position of the international community. The willingness to show this degree of flexibility, the official said, would be contingent on the Palestinians demonstrating flexibility of their own and endorsing language nodding at recognition of Israel as a Jewish state."

Arab unrest, high food prices cast pall on Ramadan

From Syria to Libya and Egypt, the uprisings and unrest gripping the Arab world have cast a pall on the start of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month when the traditional focus on piety will likely be eclipsed by more unrest.

Egypt's political risks ahead

No one doubts the army will ensure a free and fair vote, nor do most question that it wants to quit day-to-day government.
But many protesters believe the army, with its vast business interests and which provided Egypt’s rulers for six decades, will seek to keep a hand on the levers of power. This has fueled tension on the streets and sometimes violent clashes.

Syria: UN Security Council in talks as tanks shell Hama

The protests came as the UN Security Council held a first session of emergency talks on the deadly crackdown, with Western powers again demanding a condemnation of the violence, but the closed session ended with no agreement.

A managed Syrian transition has failed

In recent weeks, the Obama administration’s approach to Syria could be summed up in two words: managed transition. The preferred solution to the Syrian crisis was to try to reach out to members of both the opposition and the power structure simultaneously to try to begin a real dialogue about Syria’s future. That now looks increasingly unlikely, and the prospect of what Washington fears most—sectarian civil war—is increasingly possible.