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Tehran and Baghdad: Changing the Nuclear Dynamic

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Iran, Iranian Nuclear Program, Iran Nuclear, United Nations, Tehran, Israel, Israeli, Iran-Nuclear-Talks-European-Union, Iran US Relations, Yukiya Amano, Iran Talks, Iran Nuclear Talks, World News

The Baghdad meeting enhanced the credibility of the Israeli position that the Iranians see diplomacy as merely a stalling tactic to enable it to move forward on its nuclear program.

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Israeli Cuisine Gets Serious In The States

Food Republic | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Israeli Cuisine, Israeli, Israeli Food, Food News

Ask five chefs what defines Israeli cuisine today and you are likely to get five completely different answers. And there’s a good reason for that....

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Netanyahu: "Democracy, Who Needs the Headache?"

Mark Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Egypt Funny, Mutually Assured Democracy, Israeli, Judaism, Egypt, Egypt Satire, Palestinian, Benjamin Netanyahu, Democracy, Israel, Egypt Parody, Comedy, Comedy News

"While the fall of the entire Egyptian government may look good to the people of Egypt at this moment, I believe they will soon realize that Mutually Assured Democracy in this region is not the answer."

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Netanyahu's Coalition Is Incapable of Making Peace

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

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America must send a clear message to the Israeli people that what their government is doing in the peace process is contrary to America's national interest.

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My Flight out of Tel Aviv, With a $60 Fee for an Empty Suitcase

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jordan, Tel Aviv, Queen Alia Airport, Amman, British Airways, Ben Gurion Airport, Airport Security, Israel, Israeli, Travel News

I am returning to Tel Aviv in nine days, and already worried about having to go through the unreasonable Israeli security. But one thing is clear, I am not traveling from Tel Aviv again if I can help it.

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Exclusive Preview of How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less

Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, DC Comics, Vertigo, Israeli, Comics, Palestini, Israel, Sarah Glidden, Birthright Tour, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Books News

This book is not pro-Israel or pro-Palestine. It's not anti-Israel or anti-Palestine either, it's pro-reality. And in reality, nothing is ever really in black and white. I

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Brad Sherman's Middle East Town Hall Rife With Fear and Aggression

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

On July 3, 2010, I received an email from a friend informing me that Congressman Brad Sherman, who is seeking reelection to his 8th term in California...

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Moment of Truth Has Arrived

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Salam Fayyad, George MItchell, Israel, Palestine, President Abbas, Obama, Israeli, World News

The upcoming "proximity talks" give the US mediators, a unique position to arbitrate and bridge proposals. The moment of truth about who is truly obstructing peace has finally arrived.

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MidEast Peace: Pessimism from the Right and the Left

Eileen Read | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why is it that merely talking about talking about peace brings instant backlash? Four of the most controversial writers on the Middle East - pessimist...

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Photos Of Beaten Israeli Commandos Released By Turkey

Haaretz.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Turkey's highest circulating newspaper Hurriyet on Sunday released photos of Israeli navy commandos who had been embroiled in the clash aboard the Gaz...

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The F Word: Anger over Israel Hurts U.S.

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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As we wait to see any substantive response from the U.S. president to Israel's killings of peace workers seeking to break the years-long Gaza siege, i...

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"Ajami": A Film to Challenge the Israeli and Palestinian Narratives?

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hitting US theaters today is Ajami, Israel's contender at this year's Academy Awards, which has also been garnering praise at Cannes and other interna...

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Accomplishing Palestinian Statehood Might Have to Be Unilateral

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Israel, President Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian State, Palestinian, Israeli, World News

If reaching an independent Palestinian state is in the national interest of the United States, as President Obama has said, then it would be ill advised to deny that inevitability to Palestinians.

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A Nobel Prayer

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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The vitriol against Obama's peace prize and "those Norwegians" who gave it to him is much deeper than the president's lack of achievements thus far; it is based on a fundamental clash of worldviews.

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Avigdor Lieberman To Resign If Charged

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — Israel's ultranationalist foreign minister promised Monday to step down if he is charged after police recommended that he be indicte...

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Israeli Army T-Shirts Mock Dead Palestinian Babies, Bombed Mosques

Haaretz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel...

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While Gaza Burns, the World Watches

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Unless Israel can make five to seven million Palestinians disappear, it must find some way to co-exist with them. Israeli leaders on the center and right continue to avoid facing this fact.

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It's Time for a Sustained Focus on a Lasting Middle East Peace

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

What we continue to lack is the kind of real political solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict that could finally make a "ceasefire" endure.

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Is the Peace Process Irreversible?

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lame-duck Palestinian, Israeli and US leaders are making serious effort these days to ensure that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process enters an irreversible track before they leave office.

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Nothing Like a Fresh Israeli Offensive to Bring Out the Jew in Me

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jews, Palestine, Israel, Gaza, Republican Convention, Israeli, Jewish, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, World News

Whenever Israel launches an offensive against Palestine, it brings the Jewish in me to the fore.

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"Undivided" Allegiance: The Meaning of Obama's AIPAC Moment

Sandy Tolan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's pledge that "Jerusalem must remain undivided" is a smackdown to decades of Palestinians' dreams and demands that East Jerusalem be the capital of their own state.

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