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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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Peacemaking Demands Peacemakers

Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Edgar Bronfman, West Bank, Ariel Sharon, Fatah, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Two-State Solution, Israel, Peace, World News
Edgar M. Bronfman

For the Palestinians, there is still no real leadership, no one who speaks for all of them, and no one who can get them the state they so desperately want. This must change.

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The Cruel Dilemma Facing the Jews of Israel

Mort Zuckerman | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Gaza, Mort Zuckerman, Ariel Sharon, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Two-State Solution, World News
Mort Zuckerman

The progress being made by the Palestinians, in terms of controlling the terrorists and criminal gangs, is one of the most promising developments to have occurred in decades.

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William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words

David Bromwich | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Thomas Friedman, Joe Mccarthy, Wen Ho Lee, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, Maureen Dowd, Lebanon, Bob Woodward, Mohamed ElBaradei, William Safire, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Ariel Sharon, Jimmy Carter, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, James Reston, Kenneth Starr, Baltimore, Media News
David Bromwich

William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.

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Ariel Sharon Park: Israel's Largest Garbage Dump To Be Redeveloped -- And Renamed

GlobalPost | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: Tel Aviv, Israel, Ariel Sharon, Foreign Affairs, Ariel Sharon Park, Advocacy, World News

A bloated, stinking mass that everyone would have preferred not to have to see, but which nonetheless was thrust upon them. A sight that shamed the pe...

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Tough Love for Israel

Murray Fromson | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, West Bank, Communism, Arabs, Ariel Sharon, Egypt, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama Cairo Speech, China, Barack Obama, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Jerusalem-Israel, Israel, Shanghai-China, Beijing-China, Washington-Utah, Palestinian Authority, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, World News
Murray Fromson

Obama told the leaders of Hamas that they must recognize Israel's legitimacy as a precondition for peace. That's tough medicine for the Palestinians to swallow and even tougher for Netanyahu to believe.

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Tzipi Livni, Prime Minister?

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Kadima Party, Israel Elections, Tzipi Livni, Ariel Sharon, Binyamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister of Israel, Two-State Solution, Hamas, Israel, Mossad Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tzipi Livni Prime Minister, World News

Israel's new coalition government will be led by Kadima's Tzipi Livni or Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu. Tzipi Livni is the foreign minister of Israel. ...

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Israel's Suicide Mission?

Melissa Rossi | Posted 02.11.2009 | World

Read More: Fatah, Tzipi Livni, Israel, Suicide Bombers, Hamas, Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, Ariel Sharon, Gaza Bombing, World News
Melissa Rossi

As Israel's punishing bombardment of the prison that is Gaza - the Palestinian territory of 1.4 million which it has had walled off and strangled fo...

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More Birth Pangs in the Middle East?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.29.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Vietnam War, Ariel Sharon, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Lebanon, Aipac, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Ehud Barak, Likudniks, Israeli Airstrikes, Israel Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Operation, World News
Joseph A. Palermo

Israel finds itself in a similar position the United States found itself in Vietnam: The more it flexes its military muscle the politically weaker it becomes vis-à-vis a determined, largely civilian enemy.

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Denouncing Islamic Terrorism Does Not Undermine Just Causes

Ray Hanania | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Terrorism, Sept. 11, Pakistan, 9/11, Asif Ali Zardari, Palestine, Palestinians, Marriott Bombing, Benzait Bhutto, Muslims, 2001, Ariel Sharon, Israel, President Bush, Pakistan Bombing, Politics News
Ray Hanania

Headlines in newspapers across the Arab and Islamic World proclaimed that the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad was a "warning" to Pakistan's...

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Olmert's Political Turmoil Could be Chance for Peace

Ray Hanania | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Mahmoud Abbas, Bill Clinton, Ehud Olmert, Palestinian President, Terrorism, Palestine, Hamas, Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister, Israel, Chance for Peace, Peace Accord, Extremism, Politics News
Ray Hanania

Olmert could not be more disliked than he already is. But in one quick move to strike a real deal with Abbas and the Palestinians on a peace accord, he could redeem himself.

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Time To Put Out The Cigar, Ehud

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israel, Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon, Tzipi Livni, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mideast, Politics News
Richard Z. Chesnoff

I've never much liked Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert - at least not personally. Still, I had measured hopes for his success.

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