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Re-Energizing The Two-State Solution To Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Two States, West Bank, Israelis, One-State Solution, President Mahmoud Abbas, Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, Palestine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza Strip, Peace, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel-Palestine, Hamas, End of Violence in Israel, Israel Palestine Compromise, Two-State Solution, World News
Ray Hanania

Yes, I'm running for President of Palestine in the next election. No, I don't expect to win. My goal is to get the real leaders to do their jobs and stop putzing around.

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Palestinians Seek EU Support For Independent State

AP | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israel-Palestine, United Nations Security Council, European Union, Palestinians, Israel, Eu, World News

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians asked the European Union on Monday to back their plan to have the U.N. Security Council recognize an inde...

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Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Along Gaza Border

Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Territories, Israel-Army, Israel, Gaza, Israel Palestine, World News

JERUSALEM (Associated Press) -- Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man along the Gaza Strip border early Friday, both sides said, but the circumstanc...

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Palestinians Recommend Calling Off Upcoming Vote

Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Abbas, Palestine-Elections, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel, Palestinian Vote, Israel-Palestine, World News

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian election officials on Thursday recommended calling off January's presidential vote, a step that could result in emb...

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Mahmoud Abbas Resists U.S. Pressure To Resume Peace Talks

Reuters | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Settlements in Palestine, Israel Palestine Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel-Palestine Conflict, Abbas, Israel, Israel Palestine, Mah, World News

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian president on Wednesday resisted U.S. pressure for a resumption of peace talks with Israel, repeating h...

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Israel Stands Alone

Lloyd Greif | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Gaza, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Peace, World News
Lloyd Greif

Obama has shown far more concern for strengthening ties with authoritarian regimes on the Arabian Peninsula than to maintaining the historically close alliance with the region's only true democracy.

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Palestinian Negotiator: 'Defining Moment' Is Here

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Territories, Palestinian Authority, Israel-Palestine, Palestinians, Israel, Israel Palestine, World News

JERUSALEM — The chief Palestinian negotiator on Monday warned Israel that if it does not take peacemaking seriously, it will find itself dealing...

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Obama's Off To A Very Good Start

William Bradley | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Syria, Change We Can Believe In, Green Tech, Global Recession, Iran, Wall Street, Climate Change, Nobel Peace Prize, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel Palestine, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News
William Bradley

I think Obama's off to a very good start. But let's not clear space on Mount Rushmore yet. Just as I didn't think he deserved the Nobel, I don't think that Obama's very good start equates to a great presidency.

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Chuck Hagel to Co-Chair Obama's Intel Advisory Board

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israel-Palestine, J Street, Middle East, Les Aspin, Brent Scowcroft, Israel, Palestine, Chuck Hagel, President's Intelligence Advisory Board, Thomas Foley, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Chuck Hagel will soon be officially announced as the new chair of the President's Federal Intelligence Advisory Board. He represents the brand of pragmatic Republican national security decisionmaking that Obama needs to hear.

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Hamas Bans Elections In Gaza Strip

AFP | Sakher Abu El Oun | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Hamas Gaza, Hamas Fatah, Israel-Palestine, Obama Hamas, Palestine Elections, Fatah, Hamas, Israel Hamas, Hamas Fatah Reconciliation, World News

GAZA CITY : The Hamas-run interior ministry in the Gaza Strip said on Wednesday that it will ban the organisation of elections called for by Palestini...

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Palestinian, Israeli Farmers Fight Over Olive Groves

GlobalPost | Sara Sorcher | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli Settlements, Isreali-Palestinian Crisis, Palestinians, Israel, Israel Palestine, World News

By Sara Sorcher AWARTA and SUSYA, West Bank -- The olive branch may be a universal symbol for peace, but in the West Bank, the olive harvest bring...

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Israelis Bring Green Power To West Bank Village

AP | TIA GOLDENBERG | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Solar Panels, Wind Power, Solar Energy, West Bank, Wind Energy, Israel-Palestine, Green Energy, Wind Turbines, Solar Power, Green News

SUSYA, West Bank — Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the darkness by unlikely benefactors – a g...

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Israel Threatens Palestinian Phone Service Over War Crimes Claims

The Independent | Ben Lynfield | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Israel War Crimes, Wataniya, Israel Palestine, Ehud Barak, Israel, Israel Gaza Operation, Gaza War Crimes, Palestinian Phone Service, The Independent Israel Threatens, World News

Ben Lynfield | The Independent Israel is threatening to kill off a crucial West Bank economic project unless the Palestinian Authority withdraws a re...

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Arabs Urge Obama To Present Mideast Peace Outline

AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Arab Obama, Arab-Israeli Peace, Arabs, Middle East Peace, Middle East, Israel-Palestine, Arab World, Israel, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Arab-Israeli Conflict, World News

UNITED NATIONS — The head of the Arab League and the Egyptian foreign minister on Friday urged President Barack Obama to present his own outline...

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Israel's Ehud Barak: Terrorism Pays At The UN

wsj.com | EHUD BARAK | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Israel War Crimes, Gaza, Israel-Palestine, Goldstone Report, Richard Goldstone, Ehud-Barak, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel, Ehud Barak, Hamas, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, World News

This week the United Nation's Human Rights Council produced a 600-page report alleging that Israel carried out war crimes in Gaza. The Goldstone Repor...

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Obama, Netanyahu, Abbas Meeting: Share Your Views (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

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President Obama brought together Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today for the first time since the ...

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Goldstone Report Is a Barrier to Peace

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Richard Goldstone, Palestine, West Bank, Barack Obama, Gaza, United Nations, Israel-Palestine, Ben Gurion Airport, Hamas, Two-State Solution, World News
Alan Dershowitz

There are many things wrong with the Goldstone report, but most important, it has set back prospects of peace by making it far more difficult for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank.

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West Bank Settlements Become Havens Of Israeli Surburbanites

csmonitor.com | Ilene R. Prusher | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: West Bank Protest, More West Bank Settlements, West Bank, Israeli Settlements, West Bank Israel, Israel Palestine, West Bank Settlements, Israel, West Bank Settlers, Palestine Israel, Israeli Neighborhoods, World News

Meet the Ovadiahs, the Allons, and the Cohens. They're new arrivals in Israeli neighborhoods where freshly laid red-tile roofs and toddler toys dottin...

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Israel To Build New Houses In Settlements: Prime Minister Netanyahu's Aides

AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Settlements in Palestine, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Strip, Middle East, Israel-Palestine, Peace on the Settlements, Palestinians, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Pal, World News

JERUSALEM — Israel said Friday it will construct hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before any slowdown in building, an anno...

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France: No More Settlements For Mideast Peace

AP | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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PARIS — France's foreign minister says an agreement on freezing Jewish settlements must be reached for international Mideast peace efforts to su...

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Obama Expected To Moderate Meeting Between Netanyahu, Abbas

foxnews.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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President Obama is expected to moderate a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in late Se...

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Hamas Leader Denies Holocaust, Objects To UN Plan To Teach Gaza Children About Holocaust

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israel Palestine Conflict, Hammas in Gaza, Jews, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Gaza, Israel-Palestine, Hamas, Israel, Jewish People, Israel Palestine, Hammas-in-Gaza, Holocaust in Gaza's School Curriculum, Http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/31/Hamas-Leader-Denies-holoc_n_273078.Html, Teaching the Holocaust Gaza, Gaza Holocaust Denier, World News

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Hamas spiritual leader on Monday called teaching Palestinian children about the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews a "war c...

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