When Democracy Is Stolen
With the assistance of a few corrupt politicians, the world has now brought the middle east to the brink of nuclear war.
With the assistance of a few corrupt politicians, the world has now brought the middle east to the brink of nuclear war.
Ray Hanania | Posted 07.16.2009 | World
Most disappointing is the failure of mainstream Israelis to challenge Netanyahu and to call his hatred and extremism what it really is.
Ann Wright | Posted 07.16.2009 | World
A CODEPINK delegation has requested the Israeli police and military investigate the brutality used by their forces on peaceful, non-violent protesters.
AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 07.15.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed a Palestinian state beside Israel for the first time on Sunday, reversing himself...
Foreign Policy | Joshua Keating | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
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...
AP | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
Nearly six of every 10 Israelis think Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should resist U.S. demands to completely freeze construction in Jewish West Ba...
Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
With so much riding on this difficult challenge, America must realize that missing the opportunity to find a diplomatic solution is not an option.
AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will attempt to narrow a growing divide with the Obama administration when he delivers a m...
Sam Sedaei | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
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.
Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
A photograph of President Obama has caused some controversy in Israel. White House photographer Pete Sousa on Monday snapped a photo of the presiden...
Jerusalem Post | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government over US President Barack Obama's Middle East policies, Minister-without...
Lanny Davis | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
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.
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
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.
AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 07.08.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will deliver a major policy address next week laying out his proposed road to Midea...
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.07.2009 | World
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.
Murray Fromson | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
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.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Taegan Goddard reports that President Obama has succeeded in coordinating pressure on Israel to stop building settlements. For once, lawmakers on Cap...
David Quigg | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
Senior Israeli officials accused President Obama on Wednesday of failing to acknowledge what they called clear understandings with the Bush administra...
Ray Hanania | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
By going to Cairo University to give a speech to the Muslim World, Barack Obama is doing something his predecessors never really understood -- Obama "gets it."
Carlos Watson | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
To curb the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea, to stimulate a viable Israel-Palestine solution, he's going to have to pay. I'm talking cold hard cash.
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 07.04.2009 | Style
All eyes were on President Obama today as he met with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, but it took an eagle-eyed tipster on Capitol Hill to point out the...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
Unlike his predecessors, Obama appears no longer willing to engage in the vexing winking and nodding that has characterized American attitudes to Israeli settlement growth in the past.
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israel plans to build a 200-room hotel next to the Old City of Jerusalem, the Interior Ministry announced Tuesday, drawing a mild pr...
Norm Kurz | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
For all their complaining, Israeli leaders ought to be relieved. Instead of digging in and holding fast to ideologically driven positions, Netanyahu should use Obama's framework as his own.
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
HAVAT GILAD, West Bank — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday rejected President Barack Obama's demand for a freeze on West Bank ...
Giles Slade | Posted 07.16.2009 | World