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Weekly Foreign Affairs Round-Up

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Russia, India, Yemen, Missile Defense, Pakistan, Al-Shabbab, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Greece, Sudan, BRIC Summit, Somalia, Benjamin Netanyahu, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, China, North Korea, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : What to Make of Iran's Post-Election Uproar Facts: Incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quickly declared the...

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Recognizing Israel as a Jewish State

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Israel, World News
MJ Rosenberg

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's insistence that Palestinians recognize Israel as a "Jewish state" seems to rely on the certain knowledge that the Palestinians will never agree.

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Mubarak Op-Ed: Egyptian President On Obama's Speech, Mideast Peace

Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Egypt, Foreign Affairs, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hosni Mubarak, Hamas, Israel, Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Advocacy, World News

President Barack Obama's seminal address in Cairo marked a turning point in America's relations with the Muslim world. His message was clear and incon...

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Israel's Ban On Crayons

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Jimmy Carter, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Hamas, World News
Sanjeev Bery

This blockade is so extensive that the Israeli government even treats paper and crayons as "security hazards."

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Peace Punk'd by Netanyahu, Where's Ashton Kutcher?

Ahmed Rehab | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Peace Process, Palestine, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, World News
Ahmed Rehab

Netanyahu's address is a step backwards and represents the very barriers that have made peace historically elusive.

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Does This Mean War Between Israel and Iran Can Be Averted?

Johann Hari | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tehran, Iran, Israel, Iran Election, World News
Johann Hari

The Iranian Revolution was, from its first gasps, a marriage between two incompatible urges: theocracy and democracy. Only now are the two finally unraveling.

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Bill Clinton: Netanyahu Speech Is Just Opening Act

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

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UNITED NATIONS — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's tough terms for a Palestinian p...

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When Democracy Is Stolen

Giles Slade | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Al Gore, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, CIA Secret Prisons, Rush Limbaugh, Iran Nuclear Program, George W. Bush, Iran Election, Democracy, Benjamin Netanyahu, Robert Mugabe, Republican Party, Wire Tapping, Torture, Dick Cheney, Iran, World News
Giles Slade

With the assistance of a few corrupt politicians, the world has now brought the middle east to the brink of nuclear war.

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Netanyahu Responds to Obama with Obfuscation, Rhetoric and More Roadblocks

Ray Hanania | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Ahmadinejad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Fanaticism, Illegals Ettlements, Israel, Palestine, Peace, Barack Obama, Extremism, World News
Ray Hanania

Most disappointing is the failure of mainstream Israelis to challenge Netanyahu and to call his hatred and extremism what it really is.

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UPDATE (with video): Israeli Police and Military Brutalize Peaceful Protesters at Netanyahu's Speech

Ann Wright | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama, Gaza, World News
Ann Wright

A CODEPINK delegation has requested the Israeli police and military investigate the brutality used by their forces on peaceful, non-violent protesters.

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Netanyahu Peace Speech: Israeli Prime Minister Appeals To Arab Leaders For Peace

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 07.15.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed a Palestinian state beside Israel for the first time on Sunday, reversing himself...

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Netanyahu's Conditions For Supporting A Palestinian State

Foreign Policy | Joshua Keating | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

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The Washington Times's Eli Lake reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will say in his speech this weekend that he is prepared to acce...

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Israeli Settlements: Majority Of Israelis Against Obama's Demand To Freeze All Construction: Poll

AP | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

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Nearly six of every 10 Israelis think Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should resist U.S. demands to completely freeze construction in Jewish West Ba...

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How Diplomacy with Iran Can Succeed

Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Diplomacy, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Diplomacy, Barack Obama Iran, Iran, Obama Iran Message, Benjamin Netanyahu, Diplomacy, Obama Netanyahu, Israel, World News
Jeremy Ben-Ami

With so much riding on this difficult challenge, America must realize that missing the opportunity to find a diplomatic solution is not an option.

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Netanyahu Speech May Endorse Palestinian State: AP

AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will attempt to narrow a growing divide with the Obama administration when he delivers a m...

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Iran: More Than An Election; A Green Revolution! (And Live Updates on Election Fraud from Iran)

Sam Sedaei | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: June 12 2009, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran, Green Revolution, Israel, Iran Nuclear Program, Barack Obama, World News
Sam Sedaei

Mousavi's platform has energized millions of young Iranians and brought them to the streets to engage in the most sustained campaign of political expression since the Iranian revolution.

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Obama Shoe Photo Seen As "Insult" By Some Israelis

Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Shoes, President Obama, Politics News

A photograph of President Obama has caused some controversy in Israel. White House photographer Pete Sousa on Monday snapped a photo of the presiden...

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Israeli Sanctions On US Proposed By Likud Minister Yossi Peled

Jerusalem Post | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Likud, Israeli Sanctions, Peled Yossi, Foreign Affairs, Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud Party, Israel, Israel Likud Party, Obama Israel, Barack Obama, Advocacy, Binyamin Netanyahu, World News

In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government over US President Barack Obama's Middle East policies, Minister-without...

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The President's Cairo Speech: Does Israel Need Obama's Tough Love?

Lanny Davis | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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Lanny Davis

Many American Jews and Israelis feel strongly that Mr. Obama should better understand that such public scolding of Israel will only strengthen the hardliners of Israeli (and Arab) politics.

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The Settlements: Obama's Demands and Netanyahu's Options

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama Mideast Trip, Israel, Obama Cairo Speech, Obama Israel, Arab-Israeli Conflict, World News
Alon Ben-Meir

Obama must insist on stopping the expansion of the settlements as a prerequisite to instilling some confidence and integrity into the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

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Netanyahu Plans Major Policy Speech On Achieving Peace With Palestinians

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 07.08.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will deliver a major policy address next week laying out his proposed road to Midea...

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Israeli Media Reads the Fine Print

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.07.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Obama Cairo, Israel, Two-State Solution, Hamas, Israel-Palestine Conflict, Obama Mideast Trip, Benjamin Netanyahu, Indonesia, South Africa, World News
Sanjeev Bery

In the hours after Obama concluded his speech, Israeli commentators were particularly struck by his implicit linkage of Palestinian aspirations and other global struggles for freedom.

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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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Obama Coordinates Attack Against Israeli Settlements

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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Taegan Goddard reports that President Obama has succeeded in coordinating pressure on Israel to stop building settlements. For once, lawmakers on Cap...

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Netanyahu v. Obama (Judge Judy Presiding)

David Quigg | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Settlements, Israel, Middle East, Barack Obama, World News
David Quigg

Senior Israeli officials accused President Obama on Wednesday of failing to acknowledge what they called clear understandings with the Bush administra...

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