Israeli Politics

The Damage that Time has Done

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media

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Joe The Nerd Ferraro

Time's cover is the beginning of a rehab job for Glenn Beck. The magazine is trying once again to make it okay for people to sponsor this "person".

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Enough is Enough

James Zogby | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem, Steny Hoyer, Middle East, Mike Huckabee East Jerusalem, Israeli Politics, US Foreign Policy, Israel, Eric Cantor, State Department, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Politics News
James Zogby

The first obligation of any government is to defend the rights of its citizens. Israel appears to have defined its own categories of US citizenship. Arab Americans are not fully recognized.

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Avigdor Lieberman To Resign If Charged

AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Israel's ultranationalist foreign minister promised Monday to step down if he is charged after police recommended that he be indicte...

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The Cartographic Crux of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Green Line, 1967-Green-Line, Israeli Politics, Hertz, Israel, World News
Michael Shtender-Auerbach

The fraught political realities on the ground that are captured in the mapmaking process lie at the very heart of the problem.

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Netanyahu Doesn't Care About Obama's Peace Plan: MJ Rosenberg

Israel Policy Forum | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

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There can be no doubt: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does not much care what President Obama thinks about negotiations with the Palestinians. He s...

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The Israeli Center Cannot Hold

Ethan Pack | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: Kadima Party, Likud, Israeli Politics, Israeli Labor Party, Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, World News
Ethan Pack

Third parties diverted key fragments of the Israeli mainstream from the two largest parties, leading to coalition governments guaranteed to collapse before they could address Israel's most pressing concerns.

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Avigdor Lieberman: Peace Talks Have Reached 'Dead End'

Haaretz | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

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Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that Western-backed peace efforts with the Palestinians had reached a "dead end" and that Israel in...

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Benjamin Netanyahu: A Man Shaped By His Family

GlobalPost | C.M. Sennott | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli Politics, Netanyahu, Ben-Zion Netanyahu, Binyamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu Profile, Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Affairs, Israel, Israeli Prime Minister, World News

In the land of the biblical patriarchs, the stories of fathers and sons matter. And the story of the Netanyahu family is something as ancient as Le...

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Netanyahu Vows To Resume Peace Talks With Palestinians

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his government will be a "partner for peace with the Palestinians," the la...

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Labor Party Joins Netanyahu Coalition

Ha'aretz.com | By Mazal Mualem | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Labor Party Central Committee, Israel Politics, Labor Party, Israel Coalition Government, Palestinian Peace Deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Ehud Barak, Israeli Politics, Foreign Affairs, World News

The Labor Party Central Committee voted on Tuesday in favor of joining Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, despite vocal oppositi...

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Israel: Barak, Netanyahu Agreement Emerges Over Coalition Government

Jerusalem Post | GIL HOFFMAN and JPOST STAFF | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

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Defense Minister and Labor Chairman Ehud Barak and Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu met early Tuesday morning and came to an agreement on a...

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Shas Joins Netanyahu's Coalition

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought a nationalist religious party into what is shaping up to be a narrow, hawkish coa...

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Avigdor Lieberman To Become Foreign Minister As Likud, Israel Beiteinu Sign Deal

Jerusalem Post | JPOST.COM STAFF | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

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Likud signed its first coalition deal Sunday, with Avigdor Lieberman's Israel Beiteinu. According to the deal, party chairman Lieberman is to be appoi...

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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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Gaza War Strengthens Israeli Hard-Liners

Nytimes.com | ISABEL KERSHNER | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM -- With two weeks to go before the Israeli elections, the politicians who seem to have benefited the most from the military offensive agains...

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Israeli Cabinet Divided Over Fresh Gaza Surge

The Independent | Kim Sengupta and Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

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Israeli reservists were sent into action for the first time in the current Gaza conflict as the fighting continued yesterday and Palestinian deaths re...

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Hamas Alters Israeli Politics, Hawks Losing Ground

The Christian Science Monitor | Joshua Mitnick | Posted 02.02.2009 | World

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Tel Aviv -- While war between Israel and Hamas reverberates from Gaza City to southern Israel and to Arab capitals, the fallout will also be felt with...

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Olmert Agrees To Hold Early Primaries

New York Times | ISABEL KERSHNER | Posted 07.03.2008 | Home

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The embattled prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, agreed on Wednesday to hold primaries in his centrist Kadima Party by late September, averting a ...

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Right-Wing Faction Pulls Out Of Israeli Government, Deals Blow To Mideast Peace

AP | LAURIE COPANS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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A hawkish faction in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition pulled out of the government on Wednesday, weakening him at a time when he needs broad sup...

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