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What Obama and Israel Are Really Up to With Iran, and Each Other

Death Race | Posted 05.10.2012

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Tensions remain. But one reason why Monday's meeting between Netanyahu and Obama ended with less rancor than did their last tete-a-tete is that Israel is growing more comfortable with U.S. policy -- secret U.S. policy.

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Romney Destroys Netanyahu's Big Week

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.07.2012

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We have one person to thank for the fact that President Barack Obama successfully let Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu know 'who's the boss' both at the AIPAC conference and at a meeting between the two at the White House on Monday. Thank you, Mitt Romney.

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Netanyahu and Obama: The End of the Beginning

Dr. Josef Olmert | Posted 05.06.2012

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A lot of effort was invested by both Israeli and American diplomats and spin masters to create the impression that the Netanyahu-Obama meeting was successful, but I remain skeptical.

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Obama Stresses Diplomacy Ahead Of Netanyahu Meeting

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.05.2012

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WASHINGTON — Taking sharply different stands, President Barack Obama on Monday urged pressure and diplomacy to prevent Iran from getting a nucle...

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Turning the Tables On Netanyahu

Dr. Charles G. Cogan | Posted 05.04.2012

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After twice flouting the president of the United States, Netanyahu has returned to a position of supplicant.

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The "Israel Firster" Brouhaha

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 02.11.2012

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Can anyone argue with the assertion that for neocons Obama is always wrong and Bibi is always right? Not only that, they denounce those who dare criticize Netanyahu over anything while never ever letting up on Obama.

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Romney Takes A Swipe At Obama After Hot-Mic Moment

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.09.2012

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President Barack Obama's hot-mic moment with French President Nicolas Sarkozy was more embarrassing for the latter than the former, with the French pr...

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Obama: Stop Pandering on Israel

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 11.27.2011

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The fact is that there has never been an American president who has been so supportive, for better or worse, of every position taken by an Israel prime minister.

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Israeli Prime Minister Refutes GOP Talking Points: We Have 'Tremendous Bipartisan Support'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The GOP presidential candidates ramped up discussion about Israel policy in the past week, as Palestinian leaders pushed for a United Na...

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Letter From the Arab World: The Speeches Revisited

James Zogby | Posted 08.04.2011

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While one could quibble with aspects of Obama's state department speech and his remarks before AIPAC, I was struck by some things he said that didn't register in the U.S. press or in the Arab World's media.

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Those Who Say Israel Should Fear the Wrath of Obama

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 07.30.2011

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What I do have a problem with is the large number of commentators -- the vast majority Jewish -- who say that in defying Obama on the '67 borders Netanyahu has provoked the President's wrath and Israel will now suffer the consequences.

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Israel and the Palestinians Through the Looking Glass

Ira Chernus | Posted 07.26.2011

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The staggering power imbalance between occupier and occupied points to a looking-glass-style distortion: the absurd idea that Israel and Palestine could negotiate as equals.

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Overcoming The Fear That Drives The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman | Posted 07.25.2011

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Why is it so hard for either the Palestinians or the Israelis -- or, for that matter, different voices within the Jewish community -- to stop shouting and begin listening to one another?

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The Worst And Best Of Times: Arrogance And Resistance

Rabbi Arthur Waskow | Posted 07.25.2011

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The worst danger facing the world today is the arrogance of powerful men and institutions toward the warp and woof of human communities and the weave of life-forms on our planet.

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Obama: Surrendered Wife to Israel?

John Feffer | Posted 07.24.2011

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Obama's temerity was the functional equivalent of a wife saying to her husband, "I love you, but could you please take out the garbage once in a while?" Netanyahu, the domineering husband, blows up when he hears a "but."

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The Rebuke

Rabbi Samuel April | Posted 07.23.2011

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Just as President Obama was riding the crest of his newly re-energized popularity from capturing Osama bin Laden, Netanyahu was seen publicly rebuking the American president on his home turf.

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The Fury Over the 1967 Borders IS Disingenuous

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 07.23.2011

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Although President Obama stated nothing new during his speech last Thursday about the 1967 borders with "mutually agreed land swaps" as a basis for a ...

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Obama's Middle East: Rhetoric And Reality

The New York Review of Books | Posted 07.22.2011

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Being president of the world has sometimes seemed a job more agreeable to Barack Obama than being president of the United States. The Cairo speech of ...

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Obama Seeks To Smooth Out U.S.-Israel Tensions

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 07.22.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama sought to allay concern in the Jewish community Sunday by telling America's largest pro-Israel lobby that he had ...

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Obama: Differences With Israeli PM Are Disputes 'Between Friends'

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 07.20.2011

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WASHINGTON — In a blunt display of differences, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the idea of using his country's 1967 boundari...

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Cairo: Part Deux

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 07.20.2011

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President Obama's address needlessly stepped on its own core message by opening yet another inopportune rift with the Israeli government on the eve of Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with the president.

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A New Netanyahu

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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My sole reason for optimism about the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is that I cannot imagine that Obama would have initiated this effort if it was doomed to failure. Why bother?

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Obama: Hamas Attacks 'Senseless Slaughter,' Won't Deter Peace Talks

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama sternly condemned Tuesday's attacks in Hebron that killed four Israelis....

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Obama Tiptoes Into The Israel-Palestine Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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As direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leadership commence, the Obama administration finds itself in perhaps the most delicate diplomatic pos...

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President of Humanity

David Suissa | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yossi Klein Halevi didn't buy the "tough love" argument. He sees Obama's actions more as a combination of bullying and naive incompetence.

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