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Following in Rabin's Footsteps Toward Peace

Asaf Shariv | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Yasser Arafat, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin Assassination, Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Jerusalem, World News
Asaf Shariv

Peace in the Mideast can be a reality. It's one that the late-Prime Minister Rabin sacrificed his life to achieve, and toward which every single Israeli Prime Minister thereafter has worked.

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Netanyahu Today: First Hell Freezes, Then the Settlements

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Israeli Settlements, Yasser Arafat, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, World News
MJ Rosenberg

Israeli prime ministers understood that Palestinians viewed the expansion of settlements as something unacceptable during negotiations. This all changed with an interview in Sunday's Washington Post.

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New Books On Hamas: Government Or Terrorist Organization?

The New York Review of Books | Nicolas Pelham and Max Rodenbeck | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Islam, Gaza, Books, Nyr, Hamas, New York Review of Books, Yasser Arafat, Khalid Mishal, Cairo, Middle East, New York Review, Camp David, Israel, Books News

Which Way for Hamas? Nicolas Pelham and Max Rodenbeck The New York Review of Books Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement b...

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"Natural Growth": Netanyahu's Road Map to a Mid East Roadblock

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, The Middle East, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel Settlement, West Bank, Road Map, President Obama, Obama Cairo, Palestine, Ehud Barak, Tzipi Livni, Yasser Arafat, Gaza, George MItchell, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud, Hillary Clinton, World News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Unlike his predecessors, Obama appears no longer willing to engage in the vexing winking and nodding that has characterized American attitudes to Israeli settlement growth in the past.

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Why Mortimer Zuckerman Has No Credibility On Iran

Kamran Pasha | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yasser Arafat, Islam, Mort Zuckerman, Prophet Mohammed, Neoconservatives, US News & World Report, Iran, Leo Strauss, Media, Israel, World News
Kamran Pasha

I have to thank Mortimer Zuckerman. It was because of him that I became one of the first successful Muslims in Hollywood. But before I explain that ...

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Give Bibi a Chance

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

Read More: Yasser Arafat, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Netanyahu Peace Talks, Yitzhak Rabin, Middle East Conflict, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel, World News
Menachem Rosensaft

As a longtime supporter of the Israeli peace movement, I believe that it would behoove everyone to give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu some breathing space.

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Yasser Arafat Poisoned? Arab Doctors To Probe

AP | SHAFIKA MATTAR | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yasser Arafat Poisoned, Yasser Arafat Death, Yasser Arafat Poison, Yasser Arafat, Plo, World News

AMMAN, Jordan — Nearly five years after Yasser Arafat died from what French doctors called a massive brain hemorrhage, Arab doctors will meet in...

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Prime Minister Fayyad: Too Good to Last

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Yasser Arafat, Ismail Haniyeh, Mahmoud Abbas, Hillary Clinton, Salaaas Fayyad, Salam Fayyad, Politics News
Daoud Kuttab

Salam Fayyad has run a radically improved kind of government, one in which the public good has taken precedent over other issues.

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Livni and Barak's Gaza Calculus

Jim Arkedis | Posted 02.07.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yasser Arafat, Likud, Labor, Gaza, Ehud Barak, Tzipi Livni, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Israel, Kadima, Foreign Policy, World News
Jim Arkedis

If hundreds of innocent deaths helps secure a real security mandate for the moderate-to-dovish Kadima/Labor and Israeli-Palestinian peace, that's political calculus Livni and Barak were willing to take.

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What Was Israel Supposed to Do?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Read More: Gaza, Civilian Casualties, Peace Negotiations, Palestinians, Ehud Barak, Hamas, Camp David, Taba, Israel, Yasser Arafat, Un School, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel Ground Invasion, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Territories, Fatah, Israeli Airstrikes, Gaza City, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Operation, World News
Cenk Uygur

Every day now, I hear someone saying, "What was Israel supposed to do? Hamas keeps firing rockets into their country." So, here is a quick list of the things they were supposed to do.

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Israel and Palestine Can Still Achieve Peace

Mahmoud Abbas | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oslo Accords, Yasser Arafat, Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel, Politics News
Mahmoud Abbas

Partial peace, as proposed by my current interlocutors, is not the way forward. Partial freedom is a contradiction in terms. Either a Palestinian lives free or continues to live under the yoke of Israeli military occupation.

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Obama Hits All of the Basics in Middle East but Can Do More

Ray Hanania | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Yasser Arafat, Bill Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin, Israelis, Jerusalem, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Violence, Palestine, Palestine State, Aipac, Peace Accord, Barack Obama, Palestinians, Politics News
Ray Hanania

Obama did all the "right" things during his tour of the Middle East. But doing the "right things" might not be enough to actually achieve Middle East peace. Obama needs to do more.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Bush Years Vs. The Clinton Years

Bryan Young | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, Inaguration, Clinton, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Iran, Israel, Yasser Arafat, Politics News
Bryan Young

Israel and Palestine have sized up Obama and I think they know this is probably their last chance for violence before it's no longer the fashionable way to do things in Washington.

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