Israeli Politics

Palestinian Attitudes Toward Israel

Dr. Michael Sharnoff | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: World News, Human Rights, Middle East Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Politics, Fatah, Israel, Israeli Politics, Hamas, International Relations, Palestinians, Foreign Policy, World News

A third intifada could have disastrous consequences for all parties involved. Yet it remains unclear if a new uprising would be directed against Palestinian leaders for failing to deliver realistic change and reform or against Israel -- or both.

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Ingenious Political Coup Or Insidious Political Scheme

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Middle East, Israeli Politics, Shaul Mofaz, Middle East Politics, Netanyahu Mofaz, World News

By expanding the coalition, Netanyahu has provided himself with the ideal political environment to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians and bridge the social gap domestically.

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Israel's Dysfunctional Political System

Brent E. Sasley | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Netanyahu, Israeli Politics, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, Yair Lapid, Kadima, Ehud Barak, Mofaz Netanyahu, Shaul Mofaz, Netanyahu Mofaz, World News

In some ways, it's a bit of a surprise that Israel's political system hasn't collapsed of its own weight. Here are four major issues that weaken the system.

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Let's Have An Honest Debate: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Mitchell Cohen | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Israel, Judaism, Zionism, Liberal Zionists Speak Out, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel-Palestine, David Ben Gurion, Israeli Politics, Jewish Social Justice, Religion News

Hard though it may be, I think it is better to struggle constantly between particularism and universalism -- to struggle between the demands of actual, complex situations and circumstances and the horizons or principles that let us project better ones.

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The Abandoned Middle Road: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Anita Shapira | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Israel, Liberal Zionists Speak Out, Judaism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Politics, Zionism, Liberal Zionism, Religion News

Sometimes I feel that I am the last of a vanishing species of people who had deep convictions about taking responsibility for the destiny of the Jews and about mending themselves as part of a universal movement aimed at making the world a better place.

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Will Israel Survive?

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Politics, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, World News

Being pro-Israel means caring about Israel. It does not mean using it as an excuse for power brokering and suppressing dissident voices.

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Who Dares Wins

Samuel M. Katz | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Iran War Hype, Israeli Politics, Ehud Barak, Yitzhak Rabin, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad, World News

How many world leaders can say that they have killed terrorist masterminds at point-blank range on a mission inside an enemy's capital? Barak has. How many world leaders have stormed a hijacked aircraft to rescue terrified passengers? Netanyahu has.

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The One Forum Iran And Israel Can Play Nice In

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 02.23.2012

On Sunday, the films "A Separation" and "Footnote" will compete against one another in the Best Foreign Film category at the Academy Awards. Though th...

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The Hardline Pro-Israel Views That Helped Earn Gingrich A Billionaire's Windfall

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Sheldon Adelson, Video, Newt Gingrich 2012, Israeli Media, Mitt Romney 2012, Israel Hayom, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Israeli Politics, Benjamin Netanyahu, Newt Gingrich, Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, Yedioth-Ahronoth, Politics News

JERUSALEM -- When Newt Gingrich told an interviewer last month that the Palestinians were an "invented people," his remark drew almost universal rebuk...

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Israeli News Channel Faces Closure Amidst Political Tensions

nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Benjamin Netanyahu Channel 10, Israeli Politics, Channel 10, Israel Channel 10, Israeli Media, Benjamin Netanyahu, Channel 10 Benjamin Netanyahu, Media News

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli television station reported last spring on numerous trips Benjamin Netanyahu had taken as an elected official to Paris, London...

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Rejecting 'Modesty' For Women's Rights In Jerusalem

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Religion, Gender Equality, Israeli Dance, Jerusalem, Gender Segregation, Judaism, Modesty, Israeli Politics, Yerushalmim, Israel, Kolben Dance Group, Orthodox Judaism, Gender, Arts News

Jerusalem is home to great tension between the traditional and the liberal, the religious and the secular, the ancient word and ideals of Western civi...

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Israel Revokes Anglican Bishop's Residency Permit

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bishop Suheil Dawani, Israeli Politics, Jerusalem Inter-Church Center, Christians in Israel, Israel Residency, West Bank Palestinians, Religion News

By Judith Sudilovsky Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS/ENInews) Israel has declined to renew a residency permit for Anglican Bishop Suheil Dawani ...

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Why Do U.S. Officials Boycott Bethlehem's Mayor?

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mayor of Bethlehem, Palestinian Leadership, Israeli Politics, Christian Mayor of Bethlehem, Victor Batarseh, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Boycott of Israel, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, World News

Why does the US boycott one of its own citizens who happens to be the Christian mayor of Bethlehem? This has been the case regarding Victor Batarse.

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Friends of Israel: Bear With Us Until the Right's Frenzy Will Wear Out

Carlo Strenger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jewish Liberals, Human Rights, Avigdor Lieberman, David Grossman, Israel, Israeli Politics, Ngos, World News

Nothing seems to penetrate the minds of Israel's right-wing politicians. It's as if they live in a bunker where the simplest of truths -- that most of the word wants a Palestinian state along 1967 lines -- doesn't reach them.

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Is There an Israeli Left Left?

Adam Chandler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gadi Taub, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Likud, Ehud Barak, Israeli Politics, Smol Leumi, Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Israel-Labor-Party, The National Left, World News

Undermined by nearly a decade of right-wing dominance, the Israeli left has found itself farther from power than ever before in the 62-year history of the country.

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PHOTOS: Controversial Ariel Sharon Sculpture Set For Debut

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Noam Braslavsky, Israeli Politics, Israeli Artist, Middle East, Ariel Sharon Sculpture, Ariel Sharon, Israeli Art, Israel, Kishon Art Gallery, World News

Though he remains in a coma following a massive 2006 stroke, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon continues to court controversy. Only this time...

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A Failing Grade for East Jerusalem Schools

Ir Amim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem, Israel, Middle East, East Jerusalem, Israeli Politics, Israeli Education, East Jerusalem Schools, Israel Settlements, World News

In East Jerusalem, more than half the children within the ages of compulsory education cannot matriculate into the public school system.

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Reflections on Jerusalem Day in an Impoverished, Extremist, and Divided City

Ir Amim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Six Days War, Jerusalem-Israel, Six-Day War, East Jerusalem, Jerusalem Day, Jerusalem, Two State Solution, East Jerusalem Expansion, 1967, Israel, Israeli Politics, 1967 War, Two-State Solution, Jerusalem-Day, Ir-Amim, Ir Amim, Yom Yerushalayim, World News

Over time, Jerusalem has become the symbol of the Israeli "having it all" illusion. The attempt to "have our cake and eat it too" has no future and relegates the city to a chaotic state of uncertainty.

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The Damage that Time has Done

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.25.2011

Time's cover is the beginning of a rehab job for Glenn Beck. The magazine is trying once again to make it okay for people to sponsor this "person".

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Enough is Enough

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem, Steny Hoyer, Middle East, Mike Huckabee East Jerusalem, Israeli Politics, US Foreign Policy, Israel, Eric Cantor, State Department, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Politics News

The first obligation of any government is to defend the rights of its citizens. Israel appears to have defined its own categories of US citizenship. Arab Americans are not fully recognized.

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Avigdor Lieberman To Resign If Charged

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Avigdor Lieberman Trial, Avigdor Lieberman Corruption, Israeli Politics, Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli, Lieberman Charged, Lieberman Israel Corruption, World News

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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The Cartographic Crux of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Green Line, 1967-Green-Line, Israeli Politics, Hertz, Israel, World News

The fraught political realities on the ground that are captured in the mapmaking process lie at the very heart of the problem.

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Netanyahu Doesn't Care About Obama's Peace Plan: MJ Rosenberg

Israel Policy Forum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Netanyahu, Iran, Netanyahu Obama, Foreign Policy, Israeli Politics, Israel Obama, Obama Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel US, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama Netanyahu, Obama Israel, Israel Iran, World News

There can be no doubt: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does not much care what President Obama thinks about negotiations with the Palestinians. He s...

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The Israeli Center Cannot Hold

Ethan Pack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kadima Party, Likud, Israeli Politics, Israeli Labor Party, Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, World News

Third parties diverted key fragments of the Israeli mainstream from the two largest parties, leading to coalition governments guaranteed to collapse before they could address Israel's most pressing concerns.

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Avigdor Lieberman: Peace Talks Have Reached 'Dead End'

Haaretz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Avigdor Lieberman Peace Talks, Lieberman, Foreign Affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel, Israeli Politics, World News

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that Western-backed peace efforts with the Palestinians had reached a "dead end" and that Israel in...

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