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NBC's Brian Williams: Changing the World for the Better

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

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Jim Luce

Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...

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Examining Peace, Remembering Rabin: Some Reflections on the J-Street Conference

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Yitzhak Rabin, Peace, J-Street, Jewish Community, World News
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

To water the seeds of peace, we need to recognize the humanity on all sides of this conflict and work to create a framework of peace that acknowledges the truths of two distinct narratives.

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Shimon Peres Calls On Mahmoud Abbas Not To Quit

AP | Posted 11.07.2009 | World

Read More: Jerusalem, Gaza, Middle East Peace, Netanyahu, Oslo Peace Accord, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Fatah, Hamas, Palestinian Politics, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Us, Mideast Peace, Peres, World News

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel's president on Saturday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the...

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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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Obama and the Nobel: Just Bizarre

Jesse Larner | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Zimbabwe, Sweden, Nuclear Weapons, Peace Prize, Nobel, War, Morgan Tsvangvirai, Norway, Afghanistan, Thorbjorn Jagland, Iraq, Sima Samar, China, Barack Obama, Hu Jia, Muhammad Yunus, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Palestine, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel, World News
Jesse Larner

Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.

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Does President Obama -- and America -- Deserve the Nobel Prize?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Yassir Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Mohamed ElBaradei, Nelson Mandela, Red Cross, Middle East, Mother Theresa, Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel, Peace, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Lech Walesa, World News
Hoyt Hilsman

This movement to change America did not begin when Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office -- it has been underway for decades.

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Organizing to Stop Far Right Violence

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Far-Right Fundamentalism, Yitzhak Rabin, Hate Speech, Hate Crimes, Eric Holder Attorney General, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Other people, besides former evangelicals like me, are finally starting to realize that there is a serious problem facing America. What are we going to do about the haters?

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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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Why Jews Overwhelmingly Support Obama

Marc R. Stanley | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Yitzhak Rabin, J Street, Rush Limbaugh, Jewish, Sarah Palin, Benjamin Netanyahu, National Jewish Democratic Council, Israel, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Jewish Voters, John Kyl, Obama Smears, Politics News
Marc R. Stanley

The latest poll of the Jewish community shows that American Jews continue to support Obama. However, a few activists on the far right of the Jewish community still refuse to accept this reality.

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Gaza, Morality, and the Jews

Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 02.12.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Morality, Yitzhak Rabin, J Street, Israel, Gaza, Jewish, World News
Jeremy Ben-Ami

I remain deeply committed to working for the day when the two sides, the two peoples, recognize that their only future is to live in two independent states side by side in peace and security.

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Courage Needed

Shunit Harpaz | Posted 02.07.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yitzhak Rabin, Gaza, Middle East, Prime Minister Candidates, Hezbollah, Israel, Israel Gaza, Democracy Hammas, Peace, Israel Prime Minister, World News
Shunit Harpaz

A courageous leader would spark the enthusiasm towards peace. The Israelis are in a down spiral, but with the right leadership they could bounce back hungry for peace as ever before.

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Israel's "Auschwitz Borders" Revisited

Ali Abunimah | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, Auschwitz, Abba Eban, Nonviolence, Lessons of the Holocaust, Gaza, Bbc, Shoah, World News
Ali Abunimah

Gazans are resisting, and not primarily through armed struggle. The campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions is underway.

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Time For Hannity and Friends to Take a Xanax

Larry Gellman | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

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Larry Gellman

It's over. The American people have spoken. If this election was a basketball game, it would be time to clear the benches and let the subs play out the clock.

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A New Low: McCain Camp Condones Violent Threats Against Obama

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Yitzhak Rabin, John McCain, Intolerance, John McCain 2008, Violence, Yitzhak Rabin Assassination, Hate Speech, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Ray Lahood, Politics News
Eric Schmeltzer

John McCain's campaign is defending these kinds of outbursts, saying those like Barack Obama who are bothered "just doesn't understand regular people."

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Yitzhak Rabin and Barack Obama

Daniel Lubetzky | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sara Palin, John McCain, Yitzhak Rabin, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Politics News
Daniel Lubetzky

Neither McCain nor Palin have actually advocated or said that Obama himself is a "terrorist," but they and their campaign have certainly engaged in smear campaigns creating enough innuendos.

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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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