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Obama's Mideast Failure: It's The Lobby, Stupid

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics


MJ Rosenberg

The reason the United States continues to fail on the Israeli-Palestinian track is because of the power of the pro-Israel lobby -- not just AIPAC, but its friends and followers -- in Washington.

Will the Real Hillary Please Stand Up?

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.05.2009 | World


Daoud Kuttab

As first lady, Hillary Clinton was the darling of Palestinians and Arabs when late in Bill Clinton's term she uttered the hot button word "Palestine." Since then she has flip-flopped depending on the political winds.

Do You Have To Accept Being A Victim?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living


Russell Bishop

Anyone who has ever worked with victims of various tragedies will know that there is a great deal of difference between what happened and how the person responds to what happened.

Mitchell Presses Israel On Settlements

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 08.28.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Israel's prime minister and the top U.S. Mideast envoy said they made progress Tuesday on their dispute over West Bank settlements, ...

Taking Yes for an Answer

Amjad Atallah | Posted 08.27.2009 | World


Amjad Atallah

Noah Efron: "To be a secular Israeli in 2009 is a demoralizing and demoralized affair... We are tired of the bombs... Of UN and EU condemnations... Of our lives and tired of ourselves."

Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 07.13.2009 | World


Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : What the Lebanese Election Results Mean Facts: Saad Hariri, the son of assassinated Prime Minister Rafiq H...

Watergate, Prosecuted. Why Not Water(boarding)gate?

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics


Paul Abrams

The mess Nixon left Ford -- inflation and recession, a war winding down -- didn't preclude pursuing the larger Watergate affair, and the regime that gave rise to it. What makes waterboarding different?

George Mitchell, Netanyahu Meet Concerning Peace Efforts

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 03.29.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — Israel's next leader sat face-to-face Thursday with a man whose vision of Israeli-Palestinian relations is radically different from ...

Sam Stein

George Mitchell Tells Jewish Groups: Middle East Conflict Dwarfs Ireland

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics


During a conference call with Jewish officials and organizations on Thursday, Middle East envoy George Mitchell said that forging peace between the Is...

Israeli Leaders Tell Mitchell: We Will Respond To Every Hamas Attack

Israel News | Posted 03.01.2009 | World


Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told United States Mideast envoy George Mitchell that Israel ...