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Entries by Bradley Burston from 07/2010

As Netanyahu Faces Obama, Anxious Settlers Sharply Change Tune

| Posted 07.06.2010 | World
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinians, Israeli Settlements, Yesha Council, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bradley Burston, Barack Obama, World News

Like many an Israeli who travels to the United States, on the eve of the prime minister's visit to Washington this week, Benjamin Netanyahu has been saddled with loads of unwanted baggage.

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How Israel Can Face Down Hamas

| Posted 07.07.2010 | World
Read More: Intifada, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Religion, Gaza Blockade, Gaza War, Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, Haaretz, Fatah, Israel, Palestinain Authority, Hamas, Bradley Burston, World News

Never has Israel had an enemy so attuned to the Jewish state's weaknesses, so impervious to its strengths. Hamas has leveraged Israel's every tactic into tangible, stepwise political gain.

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Israelis Need a Gandhi of Their Own

| Posted 07.14.2010 | World
Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gandhi, Religion, Jerusalem, Civil Disobedience, Gaza, Gaza Flotilla, Hezbollah, Israel, Bradley Burston, Hamas, Mahatma Gandhi, Mideast, Non-Violence, Idf, World News

As the Jewish state begins to examine its own actions and decision-making in the flotilla disaster, it is becoming that much clearer that Israelis need, for their own sake, to begin to study non-violence.

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American Jews Without Israel, Israel Without U.S. Jews

| Posted 07.19.2010 | Religion
Read More: David Twersky, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Religion, Politics, Jewish People, Labor Party, Haaretz, Jon Stewart, Diaspora, Bradley Burston, Israel, Kibbutz, Judaism, Religion News

Once, long ago, my friend and I bandied the concept of what American Judaism would be like if there were no Israel, and what Israel would be like if there were no American Jews.

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