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Israeli Police Raid Temple Mount

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Jews, Dome of the Rock, Al Aqsa, Jerusalem, Israeli Police, Muslims, Palestinians, Israel, Temple Mount, World News

JERUSALEM — Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside...

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J Street Conference To Open Amid Controversy

Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Goldstone Report, Jewish Lobby, Lobbyists, Lobbying, Salam Al-Marayati, Obama, Palestinians, Aipac, J Street, J Street Conference, Middle East, Israel, Michael Oren, James L. Jones, Us, Un, Standwithus, American Task Force on Palestine, Politics News

J Street, an advocacy and lobbying firm created 18 months ago, is holding its first annual conference beginning Sunday, with participation from about ...

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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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Dangerous Currents in Palestine

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Abbas, Netanyahu, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Intifada, Barak Obama, Palestinians, Egpyt, World News
Daoud Kuttab

The social and economic life in Jerusalem and the West Bank appears to be on a positive upwards trend. Salam Fayyad's government has been successful (...

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Netanyahu's Challenge to the UN -- And My Challenge to Liberals -- For Moral Consistency

Lanny Davis | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Human Rights Council, Human Rights, Terrorism, Israelis, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Palestinians, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian State, United Nations, World News
Lanny Davis

Based on these core principles, liberals should overwhelmingly demand that the Palestinians accept Israel's minimal request to bring peace.

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Tony Blair Assailed At Palestinian Mosque, Called A 'Terrorist' (VIDEO)

Reuters | Sangwon Yoon | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Arabs, Palestinian Mosque, West Bank, Terrorism, Israelis, Tony Blair, Terrorist, Hebron, Palestine, Palestinians, Middle East Envoy, European Union, World News

Tony Blair, the Middle East envoy for the "Quartet" of powers - the European Union, the United States, Russia and the United Nations, was assailed by ...

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Drug Addiction On The Rise In Gaza

Reuters | Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ivan Karakashian | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: War Trauma, Gazan Drug Abuse, Tramadol Addiction, Gaza, Israeli Blockade, Tranquilizers, Painkillers, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Drug Addiction, Gaza Drug Laws, Addiction, Drugs, Palestinians, Blockade, Drugs in Gaza, Israel, Gaza Strip, Gaza Drugs, World News

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians struggling to cope with the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the trauma of war are turning to painkillers and tran...

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Voices from Jerusalem: Archeology and National Claims in Jerusalem

Ir Amim | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: The City of David, Silwan, Archeology, Palestinians, East Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Archaeological Claims, Holy City, Middle East, Israel, Archaeology, World News
Ir Amim

Many in Israel today see archeology as a tool for strengthening the connection between the Jewish people and the ancient past of the land of Israel.

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

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinians, Foreign Affairs, Obama Settlements, Palestinians Obama, Obama Israel, News, Palestine Memo, Palestinian Hopes in Obama Evaporated, Bing Today, World News

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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A Fast For Human Rights In Gaza

David A. Love | Posted 10.07.2009 | Impact

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Gaza Humanitarian Crisis, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Blockade, West Bank, World, Richard Goldstone, United Nations, Palestinians, Civilian Casualties, Hamas, Israel Blockade, Civil Rights, Humanitarian Aid, World News, Palestinian Authority, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Fasting, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel, Israel Gaza Operation, Jewish, Muslims, Muslim, Impact News
David A. Love

There are many opinions on the Mideast conflict, but one thing is certain: the situation in Gaza is a humanitarian and human rights disaster, and it cannot continue.

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US 'Fabricated Symmetry' Bad for Middle East Peace Process

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Salam Fayyad, Dan Kurtzer, Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Obama, Israel, Palestine, President Abbas, Middle East, Obama, Palestinians, World News
Daoud Kuttab

Instead of this false symmetry in which charges are fabricated to appear balanced, the US president should simply lay out who has been responsible for the delayed peace process.

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Palestinians Halt Effort to Push Gaza War Report Due To U.S., Israeli Pressure

nytimes.com | NEIL MacFARQUHAR | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Un Israel, Gaza War Report, Richard Goldstone, Palestinians, Un, Israel, Un Gaza Report, World News

UNITED NATIONS In a startling shift, the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council dropped its efforts to forward a report acc...

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Netanyahu's 'Shame' And The Fiction He Weaves

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Goldstone Report, Politics, United Nations, Richard Goldstone, Israel Defense Forces, World, Hamas, UN High Commission for Human RIghts, Amnesty International, Palestinians, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Human Rights, Gaza War, Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nuclear Weapons, Israel, Israeli Prime Minister, Nancy Kanwisher, World News
Sharmine Narwani

Break down Netanyahu's speech to the UN and you have more fiction than fact, albeit fiction that has very adeptly been spun by successive Israeli governments into the lexicon of our political language.

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Israel's Pines-Paz Ignores Facts on Iran

Taylor Marsh | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Iran, Wmd, Palestinians, Israel, Israel Gaza Operation, Barack Obama, Obama Israel, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
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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Israel Is More Than Real

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 11.26.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Israel, Nuclear Weapons, Middle Eastern Peace Process, U.N., Palestinians, World News
Robert David Jaffee

If Emanuel and Axelrod are "self-hating Jews," then I'll take more of them.

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Israel Diary: A Tale of Two Visits

Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Los Angeles Jewish Federation, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, West Bank, West Bank Settlements, Palestinians, Bialik Rogozin School, Israel, World News
Arianna Huffington

JERUSALEM -- Early Friday morning I visited the Bialik Rogozin School, an extraordinary example of what is possible with real leadership. The school has 750 students from 48 countries, most of them very poor. When director Karen Tal took over three years ago, the school was plagued by outbreaks of violence and dilapidated surroundings. But the school I toured was immaculate, with new computers throughout, and bright, smiling children everywhere. I left Bialik Rogozin energized and inspired. So it was particularly jarring to drive straight to the West Bank to see the Jewish settlements that have become a flashpoint of the stalled peace process. The security wall. The roadblocks and barbed wire. The checkpoints and "buffer zones." The large, sprawling, and very permanent-looking Israeli settlements carved out on Palestinian land. No wonder Palestinians feel like strangers in their own land. READ MORE Israel Diary: Shimon Peres on Peace, Obama's Tough Love, and Working in the Shadows Israel Diary: Hyper-Alert Security Guards and Hyper-Creative Tech Geeks

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Obama at the UN: Will He Sound the Trumpet for Human Rights?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, World News, United Nations, Gorbachev, Obama, China, Myanmar, Palestinians, Japan, Iran, Ronald Reagan, Venezuela, Tehran, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Chavez, North Korea, Politics News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

What an opportunity for Obama, after a tumultuous eight months in office, to announce at the UN an auspicious new beginning for his Administration by sounding America's trumpet as the champion of human rights.

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Obama Should Publicly Declare Israel's Failure to Honor International Obligation

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: President Abbas, President Obama, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Netanyahu, Road Map, Jewish, Settlements, Palestinians, World News
Daoud Kuttab

The summit meeting called for by President Obama on the eve of the opening of the UN general council is both good and bad news for Palestinians.

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Arab Responsibility, Not Rhetoric

Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian State, Middle East, Saudi, Golan Heights, Palestinians, Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama Middle East Policy, Israel, Barack Obama, Middle East Peace, World News
Edgar M. Bronfman

After decades of using the plight of the Palestinians as a useful stick with which to beat the West and as an excuse for their own domestic illegitimacies, Arab leaders finally need to be held to account.

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The Slandering of a Renown Jewish Jurist and War Crimes Prosecutor, Richard Goldstone

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Read More: Civilian Deaths, Palestine, United Nations, Alan Dershowitz, War, Richard Goldstone, Hamas, Barack Obama, Palestinians, Israeli Missiles, War Crimes, Hamas Rockets, President Jimmy Carter, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Gaza Strip, Israeli Government, Crimes Against Humanity, World News
Ray Hanania

Renown South African Jurist Richard Goldstone has completed a comprehensive report on the war crimes committed during the Israeli war started against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 4, 2008.

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Voices from Jerusalem: Back to What School?

Ir Amim | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinians, Education, Schools, East Jerusalem, World News
Ir Amim

Unless action is taken, East Jerusalem will be short 1,500 classrooms by 2011, denying some 40,000 Palestinian students access to state-funded schools.

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West Bank Settlements: Israel Approving 500 New Apartments

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Abbas, White House, Construction Freeze, Jerusalem, Israeli Settlements, Israeli Settlers, West Bank, Ehud Barak, Palestine, Shas Party, Hamas, Idf, Civil Rights, Middle East Peace, Barack Obama, Palestinians, Zionism, West Bank Settlements, Mideast Peace, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Likud, World News

JERUSALEM — Israel defied U.S. pressure to halt construction in its West Bank settlements Sunday, with key leaders speaking out in support of th...

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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

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

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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The Free Press Defense: Sweden, Aftonbladet and What Wallenberg Would Think

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Blood Libel, Foreign Minister Bildt, Sweden, Red Cross, European Union, Congressman Hastings, Palestinians, World News, Iran, Eichmann, Israel, Senator Cardin, Wallenberg, Budapest, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

A country's leading newspaper publishes a lurid attack, and no-one less than the Foreign Minister invokes 'freedom of speech' to protect the newspaper and its reporter. Iran? No. Sweden.

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