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Obama Honors Medal Of Freedom Recipients

AP | NANCY BENAC | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Obama Medal of Freedom, John Doar, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Obama, Gordon Hirabayashi, Madeleine Albright, Medal of Freedom Recipients, John Paul Stevens, Dolores Huerta, Video, Toni Morrison, Shimon Peres, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Juliette Gordon Low, Jan Karski, William Foege, Medal of Freedom, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Sketching impressive contributions to society in intensely personal terms, President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Freedom to...

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Lights, Camera, Educate!

Zachary K. Pearce | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Melba Moore, Colin Powell, John Travolta, Tom Ridge, Crosby Stills & Nash, Sam Donaldson, Rick Santorum, Ted Koppel, Willard-Daggett, Brit Hume, Diane Sawyer, Alma-Powell, Veterans, International Center for Leaderhip in Education, Cookie Roberts, Laura Bush, Lois Lowry, Shimon Peres, Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric, Walter Cronkite, Al Gore, Claire Shipman, Bill Ritter, Ben Gillman, Graham Nash, Helen Thomas, Education News

When the lights and camera are cued, not only is a news show taking place, but an outstanding education is in the making.

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The Jordanian Peace Initiative: A Case of Déjà Vu?

Guy Ziv | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, London Agreement, Yitzhak Rabin, Jordan, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Shamir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Third Intifada, Israel, Middle East Peace, World News

Although Israel today enjoys peace with Jordan, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to fester and, once again, Jordan is attempting to breathe life into the peace process.

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Great Person #2: The Fragility of Life, Dreaming Big, and Ending Our Dependence on Oil

Robert LoCascio | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: A Better Place, Shimon Peres, Israel, Shai Agassi, Ed Norton, Good News News

I think we need more people who are able to take big problems like oil, the environment, healthcare, education, and dedicate themselves to solving them. Not just from a passion side, but also from an engineering side of creating new systems.

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Israeli President: Facebook Key To Peace Process

AP | By MARCUS WOHLSEN | Posted 03.07.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Israeli President Shimon Peres on Tuesday visited Facebook's Northern California headquarters, where he blasted the Iranian governmen...

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Is God In The Brain?

Dr. Douglas Fields | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Hinduism, Jews, Neuroscience, Shimon Peres, God, Brain, Science, Muslims, Christianity, God Brain, God-in-the-Brain, Religion and Science, Religion News

Science and religion are different worlds, but fundamentally they are not antagonistic; they are part of the larger whole that defines all human beings.

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Iran: Only Half the Story

Barry Lando | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Iran, Dwight Eisenhower, Shimon Peres, Kennedy, Nuclear Weapons, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Iraq, Syria, World News

Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today Oh, how I wish he'd go away William Hughe...

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Israel's Netanyahu, The Man Who Can't Lose -- Or Can He?

Bradley Burston | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Iran, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair Lapid, 2012 Election, Bradley Burston, Avigdor Lieberman, Mitt Romney, Israel, Glenn Beck, Hamas, Newt Gingrich, Gilad Shalit, Barack Obama, World News

The clue to Benjamin Netanyahu is the smile. The more that the broken line of the lips relaxes, the more the eyes turn torn, guarded, distantly hostile, a combination lock on a fortune of pain and dread.

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Israeli President's Home Floods

AP | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Shimon Peres New Residence, Israel President, Jerusalem, Shimon Peres, Shimon Peres Residence, Jerusalem Old City, Israel Flood, Shimon Peres Flood, Israel, Shimon Peres Homeless, World News

JERUSALEM -- Israel's president has been rained out of his official residence. Spokeswoman Ayelet Frish said Thursday that a rainstorm flooded the of...

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Israeli President 'Ashamed' Of Contentious Bills

AP | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Shimon Peres, Israel, Israel Shimon Peres, Israel Contentious Bills, Israel Call to Prayer, Israel Defamation Laws, Shimon Peres Ashamed, Israel Undemocratic Bills, World News

JERUSALEM -- Israel's president says he is "ashamed" that lawmakers are trying to pass a string of bills he regards as undemocratic. Shimon Peres' co...

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Israeli President: Clock Ticking On Iran

AP | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Video, Shimon Peres, Shimon Peres Iran, Iran, Israel, Israel Iran Nuclear Program, Israel Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Israel Iran Nuclear, World News

JERUSALEM -- Israel's president says the international community is closer to pursuing a military solution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear program...

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George Costanza Consults On Middle East Peace In Israel

AP | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Jason Alexander Middle East Peace Mission, Jason Alexander Israel, Jason Alexander Shimon Peres, Seinfeld, Shimon Peres, Jason Alexander, Jason Alexander Middle East Peace, Celebrities, Entertainment News

JERUSALEM — Former Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander says he isn't kidding around when it comes to promoting Mideast peace. Alexander, who played ...

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Rick Perry Travel Bankrolled By Activist Rabbi Irwin Katsof

Politico | KENNETH P. VOGEL | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Shimon Peres, Elections 2012, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Olmert, Rick Perry Israel, Rick Perry 2012, Israel, Rick Perry Irwin Katsof, Rabbi Irwin Katsof, Rick Perry, Politics News

Rick Perry is talking up his travels to Israel on the stump — a line that’s likely music to the ears of an activist rabbi who made the governor’...

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Israeli President: Bashar Assad Must Go

AP | DANIEL ESTRIN | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Bashar Assad Israel, Bashar Assad, Shimon Peres Israel, Shimon Peres, Israel, Syria Protests, Syria, World News

JERUSALEM — Syrian leader Bashar Assad must step down, Israel's president declared Tuesday, sending his message to Israel's neighbor at an unpre...

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Israeli President Dismisses Palestinians' UN Plan

AP | By DAN PERRY and JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Palestine, Shimon Peres, United Nations, Jerzy Buzek, Middle East Peace Talks, Nobel Peace Prize, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Barack Obama, Oslo, World News

JERUSALEM -- Israeli President Shimon Peres urged a resumption of Middle East peace talks Thursday, dismissing the Palestinians' plan to instead ask t...

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Syria-Sly Mr. President, Turn the Heat Up on Assad

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 06.10.2011

Read More: Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Robert Ford, Deraa, Bashar Al Assad, Iraq, Lebanon, Aleppo, Baath Party, Damascus, Nato, Shimon Peres, Libya, Israel, Latakia, World News

If Obama could declare it was time for Gaddafi and Mubarak to go, the latest violence throughout Syria compels the White House to issue the same demand on Assad, with policy prescriptions to back that demand up.

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Missile From Gaza Hits School Bus, Israel Retaliates

AP | By ARON HELLER | Posted 06.07.2011

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JERUSALEM -- An anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip struck a school bus in southern Israel Thursday, wounding two people, one of them critical...

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Israel's President Speaks out On The Arab Uprisings

The Guardian | Shimon Peres | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Israel President, Arab Protests, Shimon Peres, Tunisia, Egypt, Middle East, Hosni Mubarak, Israel, World News

The Middle East has to make a historic choice: to join the new global age of democratic peace and liberal economy, or to stay clinging to its history ...

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Gates Arrives In Israel After Bomb Blast

AP | By LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tel Aviv, Mahmoud Abbas, US Defense Secretary, Jerusalem, Shimon Peres, Gaza, Robert Gates, Cairo, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hosni Mubarak, Israel, Israel Peace, World News

TEL AVIV, Israel -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that the latest spike in Mideast violence must not derail the peace process and ...

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Wife Of Israeli President Dead

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — Sonya Peres, the fiercely private, estranged wife of Israeli President Shimon Peres, died Thursday in Tel Aviv. She was 88. Her son...

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Jews for Sarah Palin Video!

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

In light of the recent blood libel manufactured against Sarah "Sarahleh Palinsky" Palin, I present the following video, made during the 2008 campaign, in which Jews communicate why they support Palin and consider her a member of the tribe.

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Top 10 Reasons to Stop the Blood Libel Schmear Campaign against Honorary Jew Sarah Palin

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

As a Jewess, I think it's an absolute shandeh that so many schmucks are talking such drek about you, Sarah Palin. You have every right to make statements about us chosen people because you practically are a chosen person yourself.

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Israel Needs to Adjust to a Post-American Age

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Turkey, Shimon Peres, Unipolar Moment, Israel, Cold War, Clash of Civilizations, China, Brazil, Japan, Stalin, Realopolitik, World News

America's unipolar moment is coming to an end and rising global powers are creating the conditions for the evolution of multipolarism. But delusional Israeli leaders still think that the U.S. remains the paramount global power.

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Israeli Cleantech Experts Prepare For China, But Not Greenpeace

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tel Aviv, Clean Technologies, Renewable Fuel, Shimon Peres, Renewable Energy, Israel, Isaac Berzin, United States, Greenpeace, Treehugger, Cleantech, Global Warming, Greenfuel, Al Gore, China, Environment, Green News

When it comes to global warming, the U.S. thinks they are the center of the world.

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Beyond Peace in the Middle East at CGI

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bill Clinton, Fareed Zakaria GPS, Middle East Politics, Bahrain, Yitzhak Rabin Assassination, Fareed Zakaria, Middle East Peace, Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Middle East, Egypt, Cnn, Hillary Clinton, Fareed Zakaria CNN, Politics News

It was a rare gift to be able to hear the Middle East session up close at this years Clinton Global Initiative. It is curious that there was not enormous media coverage of this landmark discussion

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