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Arab Responsibility, Not Rhetoric

Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian State, Middle East, Saudi, Golan Heights, Palestinians, Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama Middle East Policy, Israel, Barack Obama, Middle East Peace, World News
Edgar M. Bronfman

After decades of using the plight of the Palestinians as a useful stick with which to beat the West and as an excuse for their own domestic illegitimacies, Arab leaders finally need to be held to account.

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No Golan Heights Pullout For Syria Peace: Netanyahu Aide

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Golan, Golan Pullout, Golan Heights, Syria Israel, Uzi Arad, Israel, Uzi Arad Golan, Syria, Israel Syria, World News

JERUSALEM — Israel will not withdraw from the entire Golan Heights in return for a peace deal with Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's to...

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Iran and the Syrian Gambit

Howard Schweber | Posted 07.27.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Iran, Bombings, Sunnis, Golan Heights, Jimmy Carter, Obama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran Nuclear Program, Shiites, World News
Howard Schweber

For this week in regards to Iran Obama and his State Department get an A. Maybe even an A+, but the week is not over yet.

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Netanyahu: Israel Will Never Withdraw From Golan

Haaretz | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

Read More: Lebanon, Israel-Syria Peace Talks, Golan Heights, Foreign Affairs, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Netanyahu Assad, Bashar Al-Assad, Syria, Israel Syria, Binyamin Netanyahu, Advocacy, World News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of Russian-language reporters Thursday that Israel will never withdraw from the Golan Heights. ...

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Disaster Tourism at the Edge of the Golan Heights

Freddy Deknatel | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Beirut, Damascus, Six Days War, Egypt, Disaster Tourism, Occupied-Territories, Quneitra, Golan Heights, Syria Israel, Yom Kippur War, Israel, Old City, 1967 War, Syria, World News
Freddy Deknatel

Today the curious traveler can get a government tour after securing an easy permit in Damascus. It is perhaps the best and most disturbing example of disaster tourism in the Middle East.

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News From the Muddled East

Murray Fromson | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: India, New Yorker, Seymour Hersh, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Golan Heights, Frank Stanton, Middle East, Israel, Syria, Kashmir, Binyamin Netanyahu, World News
Murray Fromson

Resolution of the Golan Heights problem could lead to a settlement of other thorny issues that are part of the Middle East process.

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Sy Hersh: Syria Still Wants Peace With Israel, Despite Gaza Operation

The New Yorker | Seymour M. Hersh | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Syria Israel Talks, Foreign Affairs, Golan Heights, Syria Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Barack Obama, Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, Advocacy, Binyamin Netanyahu, Gaza-Palistine, World News

When the Israelis' controversial twenty-two-day military campaign in Gaza ended, on January 18th, it also seemed to end the promising peace talks betw...

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Golan Heights Apples Seen As Sign Of Peace To Come

Institute For War And Peace | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Syria Lebanon, Golan Heights Apples, Israel Golan Heights, Golan Heights Druze, Foreign Affairs, Golan Heights, Israel Syria, Israel, Israel Lebanon, Syria Golan Heights, Druze, Advocacy, World News

When Hala al-Safadi bit into the apple, she felt as though she had been instantly transported back to her home town, which she left for good nine year...

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Understanding Syrian Rapprochement: Optimists Versus Cynics

Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Obama Iran, Jeffrey Feltman, Obama Syria, Iran, United States, Syria Track, Bashar Al-Assad, Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Bret Stephens, Daniel Schapiro, John Kerry, Golan Heights, Martin Indyk, Israel Syria, Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Syria, World News
Stuart Whatley

Underlying the prospect for renewed diplomacy with Damascus is the universally accepted possibility that Assad will merely feign peace efforts without ever following through -- for which he, and his father before him, are notorious.

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It's About Occupation

Freddy Deknatel | Posted 01.06.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Occupation, Occupied Territories, Israel-Palestine, Quneitra, Golan Heights, Israel Syria, Palestinians, Israel, Syria, World News
Freddy Deknatel

My old landlord in Damascus is from the Golan. Christian, he fled with his wife and children from Quneitra, the region's capital, after the city fell ...

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Israel's Peace Offensive

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hezbollah Lebanon, Shebaa Farms, Golan Heights, Israel Syria, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Annapolis Middle East Peace Conference, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Alon Ben-Meir

As the dynamics in the Middle East shift in response to Iraq and Iran's nuclear movements, Israel has conceded that peace with Syria holds the key to rapprochement with the rest of the Arab world.

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The Taming of the Lion

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Golan Heights, Syria, Israeli Strike, Israel, Jamal Dajani, Nuke, Korean Reactor, Ehud Olmert, Bashar Al-Assad, Cia, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

Syria claims that Israel has made an offer to withdraw from the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal with Damascus. This is particularly intriguing.

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