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Defend Rep. Donna Edwards From Intimidation on Israel and Mideast

Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Democratic Congress, Congress, Jstreetpac, J Street, Progressives, Palestinians, Donna Edwards, Israel, Jstreet, Politics News

Let's show that there's real support for pro-Israel, pro-peace members of Congress by helping Congresswoman Donna Edwards scare off any possible challengers.

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Israel's Arab Community Says Proposed Laws Threaten Their Rights

Inter Press Service | Mel Frykberg | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

Read More: Inter Press Service, Palestine, Israel, Palestinians, Israeli Parliament, World News

RAMALLAH, Jun 8 (IPS) - Three bills recently making the rounds in the Israeli parliament have caused outrage amongst Israel's Arab minority. "They...

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Netanyahu Plans Major Policy Speech On Achieving Peace With Palestinians

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 07.08.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu Peace Speech, Israel and Palestinians, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Middle East, Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu Speech, Israel, Jerusalem-Israel, Egypt, World News

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will deliver a major policy address next week laying out his proposed road to Midea...

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Friday Talking Points [80] -- Parsing Obama's Cairo Speech

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.

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Jack Shaheen: Obama Delivers a Message of Peace to the Muslim World

Christian Avard | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Muslim, Barack Obama, Arab World, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Obama Muslims, Middle East Politics, Obama Middle East, Palestinians, Obama Arabs, Middle East Peace, Muslim World, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Arabs, Mideast Peace Process, Middle East, Arab, American Muslims, Palestinian, Israel, Muslims, Obama Middle East Policy, Obama Muslim Smear, Obama Mideast Speech, Muslim, Israel Gaza, Anti-Muslim Bias, Obama Israel, Israeli Arabs, China, Gaza, Berlin, Obama Mideast Trip, World News

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How Do You Say "Kumbaya" in Arabic?

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Obama Cairo, Obama Cairo Speech, Barack Obama, World News, Iran, Palestinians, World News

A few thoughts after the Cairo Address. I don't know about you, but I am increasingly weary of our national leader trying to win friends and influen...

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An Analysis of Obama's Precedent-Setting Speech

Ray Hanania | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Obama is stating what many of his predecessors stated but with more substance and a clear understanding of the fundamentals of the Arab and Muslim World.

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President Obama Hits All the Right Notes in Cairo

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

President Barack Obama's speech today in Cairo hit all of the right notes and was exactly what he needed to say after eight years of saber rattling, r...

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What President Obama Promised in Cairo

Robert Naiman | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Iran's Nuclear Program, Iran, Pakistan, Obama Administration, Palestinians, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Diplomacy, Obama Cairo Speech, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Obama Mideast Trip, World News

U.S. policy in the broader Middle East over the next four years will be judged in the region according to whether the pledges that President Obama made in Cairo today are kept.

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Obama's Muslim Engagement

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

To be the first African-American president with a heritage that includes Islam gives him Obama legitimacy than any other president to make this speech.

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Palin's Foreign Policy: " We Win! They Lose!" Obama's: "Peace"

Shannyn Moore | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, First Dude, Sean Parnell, Anchorage, Michael Reagan, Palin, President Obama Cairo Speech, Swine Flu, Palestinians, Obama, Mark Dice, Cairo Speech, Sarah Palin, Nancy Reagan, Isreal, Politics News

At Sarah Palin's speech with Michael Reagan, she was part cheerleader, part gladiator. She went after Obama, saying "we should never apologize." I was waiting for the "Ready? Okay!" Pom-poms, anyone?

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Kuwait, Nuclear, Indonesia, Somalia, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Russia, Taliban, Israel, Lebanon, Election, Palestinians, North Korea, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : Noisy North Korea Facts: North Korea performed a nuclear test last weekend which, according to various sei...

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Palestinian Jerusalem Theater Shut Down By Israeli Police

BBC NEWS | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem-Israel, Jerusalem, Foreign Affairs, Israel, Palestinians, Palestinian Theater, East Jerusalem, Advocacy, World News

Israeli police have shut down a Palestinian theatre in East Jerusalem....

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Egypt-Gaza Border-Crossing A Soap Opera Filming Set

Salena Tramel | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Gaza, Egypt, Foreign Affairs, Palestinians, Rafah, Rafah Border Crossing, Advocacy, Gaza Entry, World News

The Egyptians are world famous for their soap operas. And this Monday, I accidentally ran into one of these productions in full swing ... at the Rafah border-crossing into Gaza from Egypt.

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Jerusalem 42 Years Later: Where East and West Are Worlds Apart

Hagai El-Ad | Posted 06.21.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, East Jerusalem, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem-Israel, Acri, Civil Rights, Palestinians, Israel, World News

Hundreds of Jerusalemites, Israelis and Palestinians, demonstrated together near the Old City's Damascus Gate, protesting the denial of human rights to nearly a third of the city's population.

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Obama: Israeli Settlements "Have to be Stopped"

Robert Naiman | Posted 06.18.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Palestinians, Obama Administration, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News

Without a settlement freeze, there can be no progress on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Palestinians Mark 'Nakba' 61st Anniversary

Al Jazeera | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jews, Arabs, Nakba, Foreign Affairs, Palestinians, Catastrophe, Israel, Advocacy, World News

Thousands of Palestinians have marked the 61st anniversary of the "Nakba" or "catastrophe," in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displa...

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Will Obama Solve the Middle East -- All at Once?

Carne Ross | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Iran, Jerusalem, Middle East, Israel, Palestine, Obama, Lebanon, Hamas, Peace, Palestinians, US Administration, World News

The administration may, at a stroke, be seeking to solve all aspects of the many-faceted problem of Israel's relations with its Arab neighbors: that means Palestinians, Lebanon, Syria, all at once.

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How Would Israel Look, if Its Left Finally Died?

Bradley Burston | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: Mideast, Khaled Meshal, Ehud Barak, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama, U.S., Palestinians, World News

It might look just like it does.

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Hamas Bans Weddings 'To Help Students Concentrate'

YNetNews | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, West Bank, Gaza, Foreign Affairs, Palestinians, Israel, Advocacy, Hamas Bans Weddings, Hamas, World News

Gaza's interior ministry has decided to impose limitations on weddings taking place throughout the Strip, claiming that they disrupt high school stude...

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Avigdor Lieberman Refuses To Commit To Palestinian State

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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ROME — Israel's foreign minister, whose anti-Arab statements have frayed diplomatic nerves, committed himself on Monday to Mideast peace, but di...

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Mind-State Solution

David Suissa | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem, Peace Process, Peace Now, Jewish, West-Bank, Palestinians, Settlements, Hamas, Americans for Peace Now, Israel, World News

If any party should be selling peace, it's Israel. Yet, incredibly, it's always the reverse: Palestinians are selling a peace they can't deliver, while Israelis are buying a peace that doesn't exist.

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Palestinian Sentenced To Death For Selling Land To Israelis

Jerusalem Post | Posted 05.29.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Foreign Affairs, Palestinians, Israel, Advocacy, World News

A Palestinian military court has sentenced a man to death by hanging for selling land to an Israeli company....

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Ahmadinejad Gives Another Victory to the Israeli Right

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

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One reason peace forces are unable to win majority support in Israel is that too many Arabs seek not a two-state solution but the total elimination of the State of Israel as a Jewish homeland.

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Obama, Netanyahu, and Zionists Against Occupation

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Rome, Barack Obama, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Christianity, St. Peter's, Michelangelo, Palestinians, Gaza, Jerusalem-Israel, World News

If the last 40 years are any indication, the Palestinians will be able to survive the occupation. A healthy state of Israel will not.

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