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Handicapping Mideast War and Peace 2010: Picking Your Dead Horse

Bradley Burston | Posted 12.29.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 2010, Bradley Burston, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, New Year, Israel, World News
Bradley Burston

With murmurs of impending intifada from Iran to Silwan, it's only natural to rummage the entrails of the year just past, for the kinds of peace signs and war drums that could foretell the year just beginning.

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The Terrorists Will Be Released and They Will Murder Again

Yossi Zur | Posted 12.28.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, Haifa, Mawaz Abu Sharach, Terrorism, Majdi Amro, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Israel, Gilad Shalit, World News
Yossi Zur

Mawaz Abu Sharach and Majdi Amro, the two murderers of my seventeen year-old son, are currently in jail. But they could soon be freed with a thousand others, all in exchange for one Israeli prisoner.

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Israel: British Arrest Warrant For Tzipi Livni Threatens Ties

AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 12.16.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Tzipi Livni Israel, UK Israel Relations, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister, Tzipi Livni, Israel, Israel Gaza, World News

LONDON — Britain pledged Tuesday to reform a peculiar legal power that lets judges order the arrest of visiting politicians and generals –...

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Israel Should Hold Its Fire on Iran

Meir Javedanfar | Posted 12.13.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Meir Javedanfar, Israel, World News
Meir Javedanfar

Some Republicans hope that they can use the president's shortcomings as a vindication for their own policies and world view. To them, a unilateral Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear installations would do just that.

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Settlers Protest In Jerusalem Against Building Ban

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

Read More: West Bank Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister, West Bank Settlers, Israel, Settlers, Israeli Settlers, World News

JERUSALEM — About 10,000 West Bank settlers and their backers filled part of downtown Jerusalem Wednesday, listening to fiery speeches, dancing ...

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Trust the Settlers to Lose the West Bank

Bradley Burston | Posted 12.09.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli Settlements, Settlement Freeze, Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel, Bradley Burston, Settlers, Barack Obama, World News
Bradley Burston

If past experience is any guide, only the settlers themselves are capable of doing what is needed to bring about a pullout. And if present indications hold, at some point, they will do just that.

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Prisoner Exchange A Reflection On Mideast Disagreements

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Israelis, President Obama, Fatah, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Shalit, Hamas, Palestinians, World News
Daoud Kuttab

If there were a case that could illustrate the disagreement between Israel and the Palestinians, the Shalit prisoner exchange deal could be the one.

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Assessing Obama's Foreign Policy: Guess Who Is Small Now?

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

Read More: West Bank, William Holden, Pakistan, Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson, Obama, Iran, Pax Americana, China, Poland, Russia, National Intelligence Council, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Czech Republic, World News
Leon T. Hadar

Even a Roosevelt, a Kennedy or Reagan would have to deal with the reality that is facing Obama, in which domestic resistance and rising global challenges make it difficult for Washington to secure its military and economic hegemony.

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Fixing Obama's 'Israel Problem'

Zeeshan Aleem | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Netanyahu, World News
Zeeshan Aleem

The Obama administration has an 'Israel problem,' and its recent focus on freezing Israeli settlement construction is a far cry from the solution, according to the Israel Policy Forum's report.

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The Settlement Freeze -- Very Hard To Believe

Hagit Ofran | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Settlements, Peace Now, World News
Hagit Ofran

At least in terms of words and declarations, there is a settlement freeze; in terms of deeds -- it is too early to know.

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Netanyahu: Prisoner Swap Not A Done Deal

AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Gilad Shalit Prisoner, Gilad Shalit, World News

RAMALLAH, West Bank — At the top of the list of Palestinian prisoners likely to be freed in a possible swap for an Israeli soldier is a firebran...

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Gilad Schalit Deal: Israel May Swap 1,000 Palestinian Prisoners For Soldier Held By Hamas

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN and DIAA HADID | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Marwan Barghouti, Shimon Peres, Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Mahmoud Zahar, Netanyahu, Gilad Schalit, World News

JERUSALEM — Hamas leaders raced to Egypt on Monday amid signs of progress on a deal to swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for a captive Isra...

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Accomplishing Palestinian Statehood Might Have to Be Unilateral

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israel, President Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian State, Palestinian, Israeli, World News
Daoud Kuttab

If reaching an independent Palestinian state is in the national interest of the United States, as President Obama has said, then it would be ill advised to deny that inevitability to Palestinians.

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Palestine 1001 Nights

Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Oslo Accords, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East, Road Map, Gilo, Jamal Dajani, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mofaz, Israel, Israeli Settlement, Barack Obama, World News
Jamal Dajani

If Hamas is no longer Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority is no longer an authority, what options do the Palestinians have?

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Palestinians To Appeal To UN For State, As Peace Talks Stall

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, Paestine, Israeli Settlements, Jerusalem, West Bank, Abbas, Palestinian Refugees, Palestinians, Settlements, Palestinian Diaspora, UN Security Council, Settlers, Palestinian State, Barack Obama, Gaza, Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, 2 State Solution, Gaza Strip, Israel, Hosni Mubarak, Hillary Clinton, Us, Un, Home News

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian drive to ask the U.N. Security Council to endorse a state unilaterally, put forward by a top negotiator Sunday, appear...

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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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