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Israel Elections

Avigdor Lieberman Likely To Be Israel's Next Foreign Minister

Telegraph | Dina Kraft in Tel Aviv | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

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Avigdor Lieberman, the head of a provocative nationalist Israeli party, is on course to become the country's next foreign minister in a move likely to...

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Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu Will Form New Government: Peres

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to his moderate rivals Friday to join a unity government _ a tricky alliance that would let the hawkish ...

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Israel President Peres To Decide On Governing Coalition

Al Jezeera | Posted 03.21.2009 | World

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Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, is set to begin work on deciding who will become the country's next prime minister and lead a governing coalition...

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Likud-led Coalition Government Gaining Support In Israel

Jerusalem Post | By GIL HOFFMAN | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

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The Likud and Kadima will be able to form a government together under the leadership of Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu, on the basis of equality be...

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Tzipi Livni, Prime Minister?

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

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Israel's new coalition government will be led by Kadima's Tzipi Livni or Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu. Tzipi Livni is the foreign minister of Israel. ...

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Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister?

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 03.13.2009 | World

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Benjamin Netanyahu, one of Israel's most controversial political figures, is favored to win the election for prime minister over Tzipi Livni. Netany...

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Life of an Israeli Government: Nasty, Brutish and Short

Natan Sachs | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

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Natan Sachs

Israel's inability to stay out of the news for long is due not merely to hawkish administrations or a near-impossible region. The lack of strategic leadership is also the product of a broken political system.

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Israel's Election Day: Not a Change We Can Believe In

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 03.10.2009 | World

Read More: Peace Process, Israel Elections, Middle East Peace Process, Ilana Teitelbaum, Israel, Tzipi Livni, Knesset, Palestinians, Israel Prime Minister, Binyahim Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, World News
Ilana Teitelbaum

All three of Israel's candidates for Prime Minister belong to an era that should be receding behind us, not popping up in our ballot boxes again and again.

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Give Us Netanyahu. Please.

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.10.2009 | World

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Steve Clemons

Give us Netanyahu. Please. His re-ascension will help Americans realize that the false choice approach the Bush administration had been taking in Israel-Palestine affairs was flawed.

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Avigdor Lieberman, Hard Man Of The Right, Is Israel's Kingmaker In Waiting

The Independent | By Donald Macintyre in Umm el Fahm | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

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Avigdor Lieberman, the far-right politician campaigning on a platform that Israeli Arabs should pledge loyalty to the state or lose their right to vot...

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Israel Election: What Does It Mean to You?

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

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Hanna Ingber Win

Israelis head to the polls on February 10th to vote in a new government. As the crisis in Gaza demonstrates, Israeli politics affect the world. The ou...

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Israel Is About to Make a Misjudgement as Disastrous as Gaza

Johann Hari | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

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Johann Hari

In a few days, it looks likely to re-elect Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister once again. This is a man calling for the violent re-occupation of Gaza to "liquidate" its elected government.

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Another Israeli Election Down to the Wire

David Makovsky | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

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David Makovsky

On February 10, Israelis will go to the polls to choose a new government, and the election campaigning -- curtailed by Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip -- has resumed in earnest.

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Israel Rules Out Hamas Contacts, Threatens Force

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

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HERZLIYA, Israel — Israel's foreign minister threatened Monday to keep hitting Hamas as long as it attacks Israel, ruling out negotiations with ...

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Israeli Election: Netanyahu Says Iran Nukes Trumps Global Economy

AP | JOHN DANISZEWSKI | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

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DAVOS, Switzerland — Israeli election front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu told a session of the World Economic Forum on Thursday that preventing Ira...

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Sam Stein

Obama Immediately Gets Working On Gaza

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

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Before attending an official prayer service this morning, President Barack Obama put in a bit of work, his communications office let it be known. And ...

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Israel's High Court Revokes Election Ban On Arab Parties

Haaretz | Posted 02.21.2009 | World

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The High Court of Justice on Wednesday revoked a government decision to exclude Israeli-Arab parties from contenting in the national elections next mo...

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