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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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Abbas's Decison Signals Need for Implementation Not Negotiations for Two State Solution

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.07.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Abbas, President Abbas, Palestine, Israel, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Palestinians, World News
Daoud Kuttab

The Israelis, the Americans, the international community and any proponent of a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict couldn't dream of finding a better Palestinian leader.

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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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Hillary Clinton: US Wants Israel To Stop Building West Bank Settlements 'Forever'

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Jews, Gaza, Abbas, Palestine, Settlements, Two State Talks, Settlers, Peace, Palestinians, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Mahmoud Abbas, West Bank, Jerusalem, Arabs, Clinton, Mideast Peace, Two State Solution, Gaza Strip, Egypt, Israel, Hosni Mubarak, Mubarak, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton, World News

CAIRO — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S. stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesda...

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Palestinian Officials Criticize US Over Israeli Settlements

Washington Post | Howard Schneider | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Netanyahu, Clinton, Palestinian Refugees, Palestinians, Settlements, Obama, Settlers, Refugee Camps, Mahmoud Abbas, Two State, West Bank, Jerusalem, Peace Plan, White House, Gaza Strip, Peace Talks, Benjamin Netanyahu, Un, Mideast, Israel, Refugees, Hillary Clinton, Illegal Settlements, World News

JERUSALEM -- Palestinian officials on Sunday criticized the United States for what one called "back-pedaling" on demands that Israel stop settlement c...

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Palestinians Accuse Clinton Of Hurting Peace Talks

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Palestinian Peace Talks, Clinton Peace Talks, Clinton Peace, Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton Palestinians, Clinton Israel, Politics News

JERUSALEM — The Palestinians on Sunday accused U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of undermining progress toward Mideast peace talks...

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Can Arab/Muslim Countries Criticize Israel Under the UN Anti-Blasphemy Resolution?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Koran, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Islam, Israeli Settlements, Bible, Gaza, West Bank, Judaism, Association for World Education, Pakistan, United Nations, Oic, Fgm, Canada, Arabs, Awe, Occupation, Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt, Torah, UN Human Rights Council, Quran, International Humanist and Ethical Union, Blasphemy, Zionism, Israel, Old Testament, Doru Costea, Sharia, Iheu, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Middle East, World News
Ali A. Rizvi

How do the Arab/Muslim countries of the OIC plan to continue their criticism of the Israeli occupation and settlement expansion without, in a way, violating their own proposed resolution?

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Justice Goldstone and the Jews

Tony Judt | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Foreign Affairs, Richard Goldstone, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Israel, World News
Tony Judt

We Jews should be very proud of Richard Goldstone. It would be hard to fictionalize a more convincing biography for an engaged and ethically uncompromising jurist.

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What Is Going on Today in the Settlements?

Hagit Ofran | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Settlements, Israel, Middle East Peace, Peace Now, World News
Hagit Ofran

The talk and the press reports over the last few months about settlement construction and a settlement freeze have left many confused.

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Benjamin Netanyahu On Iranian Threat: "The Issue Is Not The Security Of Israel But Of The World"

Newsweek | Posted 10.24.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Holocaust, Gaza, Palestinian, Fatah, Iran, Obama, Human Rights Abuses, Hamas, Nukes, War Crimes, West Bank, Jerusalem, Nuclear Weapons, Two State Solution, Human Rights, Barack Obama, Geneva, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas Fatah, Goldstone Report, Red Cross, Israel, Un, Gilad Shalit, War Crime, World News

NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth spoke to Netanyahu in Jerusalem last week. Excerpts: WEYMOUTH: What did you think of the Goldstone report? NETANYAHU: I tho...

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Israel Pushes To Change International Laws Of War After Damning Gaza Report

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Gaza, Israel, Gaza War, Goldstone Report, Richard Goldstone, Un Gaza, Un Gaza Report, Foreign Affairs, Israel Law of War, Israel Laws of War, Benjamin Netanyahu, Home News

Israel's prime minister has instructed his government to draw up plans for a "world wide campaign" to lobby for changes in the international laws of w...

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Historical Revisionism on the Temple Mount

Daniel Levin | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Historical Revisionism, Jerusalem, Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Fatah, Waqf Authority, Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, Temple Mount, World News
Daniel Levin

A recent rejection of any Judeo-Christian connection to Jerusalem has become a growing force in Palestinian nationalism that may permanently endanger Jerusalem's ancient and modern past.

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Goldstone, Israel's Frankenstein Monster

Bradley Burston | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Territories, Gaza, Goldstone Report, Benjamin Netanyahu, UN Human Rights Council, Israel, Bradley Burston, Un, Idf, Ehud Barak, World News
Bradley Burston

I put off reading the Goldstone report the same way I put off scheduling a colonoscopy. I now realize it was for many of the same reasons. You know it's going to be tremendously uncomfortable, you don't want to know what they're going to find, and the consequences could be life-threatening.

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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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Aristotle Negotiates the Middle East

Mitchell Cohen | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Gaza, Aristotle, Goldstone Report, Richard Goldstone, Benjamin Netanyahu, Settlements, Hamas, Israel, Israel Hamas, Israel Settlements, Binyamin Netanyahu, World News
Mitchell Cohen

Can we learn something from Aristotle about Israeli-Palestinian arguments? Who can persuade whom of what?

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Netanyahu: I'll Never Allow War Crimes Trials For Israelis

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed never to allow Israeli leaders or soldiers to stand trial on war crimes charges ov...

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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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Working for Peace is a Form of Prayer

Bradley Burston | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Islam, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mideast, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Peace, Gilad Shalit, Judaism, Gaza, World News
Bradley Burston

The exchange of several Palestinian women prisoners for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit could signal a tectonic shift in Israeli-Palestinian peace relations.

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Netanyahu, the Tunnels Opener

Hagit Ofran | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Elad, The City of David, Israeli Settlements, Silwan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, Israel, World News
Hagit Ofran

Last week, an incident that could have set the entire Middle East on fire was prevented. Netanyahu's secret plan to visit a disputed tunnel in the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan was canceled.

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Obama's Next Middle East Challenge

James Zogby | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, The Middle East, Middle East Politics, Obama Middle East, United Nations, President Obama, Obama, Peace, Barack Obama, Middle East Peace, Binyamin Netanyahu, Middle East, Middle East Peace Process, Obama Middle East Policy, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, World News
James Zogby

With the dust having settled following Obama's New York meetings with Netanyahu and Abbas, a sober assessment of what actually happened, and what may happen next, is in order.

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Netanyahu's 'Shame' And The Fiction He Weaves

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Goldstone Report, Politics, United Nations, Richard Goldstone, Israel Defense Forces, World, Hamas, UN High Commission for Human RIghts, Amnesty International, Palestinians, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Human Rights, Gaza War, Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nuclear Weapons, Israel, Israeli Prime Minister, Nancy Kanwisher, World News
Sharmine Narwani

Break down Netanyahu's speech to the UN and you have more fiction than fact, albeit fiction that has very adeptly been spun by successive Israeli governments into the lexicon of our political language.

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Israel Tells US, Time To Act On Iran

AP | IAN DEITCH | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, White House, Jerusalem, United Nations, Obama, U.S., Barack Obama, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Facility, Avigdor Lieberman, Tehran, Military, Israel, Un, Us, Strike, Ahmadinejade, World News

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the U.S. to take action over a newly revealed Iranian nuclear facility in a phone co...

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Building Momentum for Mid-East Peace: Bring Back the Multilaterals

Steven L. Spiegel | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Energy, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, United Nations General Assembly, Foreign Affairs, United Nations, Obama Un, Barack Obama, Multilateralism, Obama Un Speech, Middle East, Health, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Advocacy, World News
Steven L. Spiegel

In his speech to the UN General Assembly, President Obama provided the direction for a new approach to foreign affairs, calling for regional initiatives with multilateral participation. We have an idea for just such an initiative.

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Has Israel Become Dependent on Terrorism?

Bradley Burston | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bradley Burston, Idf, Barack Obama, World News
Bradley Burston

Terrorism remains central to Israel's explanations of many of the most morally problematic of its policies, including the siege of Gaza and restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank.

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Israel Diary: Shimon Peres on Peace, Obama's Tough Love, and Working in the Shadows

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Shimon Peres, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres, Two-State Solution, Arianna Huffington Shimon Peres, Barack Obama, World News
Arianna Huffington

It's hard to spend any time with Israeli President Shimon Peres and remain pessimistic about the possibility of peace.

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