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Obama Flinches On Israel After Starting Out Tough

The Washington Post | Glenn Kessler | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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President Obama came into office insisting that his administration would press hard and fast to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But after ni...

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U.S. Admits Israeli-Palestinian Talks Over 2-State Solution Not Happening Soon

washingtonpost.com | Karen DeYoung and Howard Schneider | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

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CAIRO -- The Obama administration has concluded that an early resumption of high-level negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians over a Palesti...

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Israelis Brace Themselves For War With Iran

wsj.com | YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

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The postcard from the Home Front Command that recently arrived in my mailbox looks like an ad from the Ministry of Tourism. A map of Israel is divided...

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Ethan Bronner: In The Mideast, Force Trumps Diplomacy

nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM As the Obama administration tries to broker a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is a dark truth lurking: force has produ...

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Palestinian Memo: Hopes In Obama "Evaporated" After "Zionist Lobby" Pressure

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — The Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated," accusing the White House o...

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Why Obama's Mideast Policy Will Work

Steven L. Spiegel | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

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Steven L. Spiegel

The facts speak for themselves. Anyone concerned with Israel's survival as a Jewish state should stop criticizing Obama's policies.

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Israel's Pines-Paz Ignores Facts on Iran

Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

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Taylor Marsh

After listening to Israeli Labor party MK Ophir Pines-Paz speak and answer questions, it seems clear that Pines-Paz does not understand Iran, though he's clearly not alone.

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Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaida No. 2, Calls Obama A "Fraud"

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

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CAIRO — Al-Qaida's deputy leader on Monday seized upon President Barack Obama's failure to bring about a freeze in Israeli settlement constructi...

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Let's Get Peace Moving Again!

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

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Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

Obama has said that good friends should be honest with each other and that he intends to be honest with Israel -- and that looking out for Israel means calling on her to take difficult steps and make painful compromise.

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Obama and the Peace Process

Marwan Bishara | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

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Marwan Bishara

I could only shake my head in amazement as I listened to President Obama at the U.N. trying to put a brave face on his administration's failure to convince Israel to freeze all settlement activities.

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Obama Loses Israel Settlement Fight, Pivots In His Demands

nytimes.com | HELENE COOPER and MARK LANDLER | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

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UNITED NATIONS -- President Obama, who has met immovable resistance from Israel over his demand for a full freeze on settlements in the West Bank, is ...

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Israel Summit A Victory For Settlement Stand, Says Avigdor Lieberman

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Israel's foreign minister said Wednesday that the summit of Israeli, U.S. and Palestinian leaders proved Israel could successfully f...

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Obama: Israel, Palestinians Must Do More For Mideast Peace

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

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NEW YORK — Bristling with impatience, President Barack Obama sternly prodded Israeli and Palestinian leaders to relaunch Mideast peace negotiati...

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At Obama Israel Summit, Netanyahu Will Defend Settlement Growth, Says Aide

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will defend the expansion of West Bank settlements when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama and Palestinian Preside...

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West Bank Settlers Will Resist Evacuation But Unlikely To Fight Israeli Army

nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER and ISABEL KERSHNER | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

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HAVAT GILAD, West Bank Of the hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, those who live in unauthorized hilltop outposts like this on...

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Israel Pushes Ahead East Jerusalem Building Plans

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 09.09.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given the green light for hundreds of new homes in a Palestinian-claimed area of Jerus...

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Sahil Kapur

Only 4% Of Israelis Say Obama Is "Pro-Israel"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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Only 4 percent of Israelis believe President Barack Obama's Mideast policies are "pro-Israel," according to a Smith Research poll this week. The numbe...

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Six Easy Ways to End the Conflict in the Middle East

Omri Marcus | Posted 09.29.2009 | Comedy

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Omri Marcus

Maybe it's time to think outside the box. Maybe it's about time to stop counting on our leaders, and end this fiasco in a different way

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Israel Settlement Halt: U.S. Hints At Flexibility

Reuters | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations could possibly resume without a complete freeze in Israeli building of Jewish settlement...

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Obama On Brink Of Deal For Middle East Peace Talks

The Guardian | Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Julian Borger | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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Barack Obama is close to brokering an Israeli-Palestinian deal that will allow him to announce a resumption of the long-stalled Middle East peace talk...

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Winning Back Israel

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

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Alon Ben-Meir

Obama must make it abundantly clear that his focus on the settlements is not arbitrary, but represents a critical point of departure if Israel is to ever to seek peace with the Palestinians.

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Partial Freeze On Israeli Settlements Reason To Be Cautiously Optimistic

Hagit Ofran | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

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Hagit Ofran

President Obama, following his meeting with President Mubarak, said yesterday: "There has been movement in the right direction" referring to the repor...

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Do Arabs See Israel as a Permanent Fact?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

A recent article in the New York Times sums up all that is wrong with the Obama administration's posture toward Israel.

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Netanyahu 'Scores Points' In Israel For Standing Up To Obama

washingtonpost.com | Howard Schneider | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM, Aug. 18 -- For five months, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been fending off U.S. pressure to halt the expansion of West Bank...

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Huckabee In Israel: A Palestinian State Within Holy Land "Unrealistic"

AP | JEN THOMAS | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — The U.S. has taken too harsh a stance against Israel on the issue of settlements, hindering peace negotiations, former Arkansas gove...

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