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A Place at the Passover Table - for Pharoah

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Jerusalem, Middle East, Hebron, Israel, Passover, Palestinians, Judaism, Pharoah, Bradley Burston, World News
Bradley Burston

It was late, maybe midnight When we opened the door for Elijah Fully expecting Aunt Ida, in sable. But it was Pharaoh that walked in to the wine and the whining.

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Obama, Turkey and History

Murray Fromson | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Turkey, U.S.S.R., Francis Gary Powers, Korean War, Ankara, Cyprus, Cold War, Barack Obama, Palestinians, Baikonur, World News
Murray Fromson

From the podium of the National Assembly in Ankara, Obama spoke not only to Turks, but to the entire Muslim world and he carved out an image of a global statesman.

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Palestinians Angry About Portrayal of Prisoners' Wife by Palestinian Filmmaker

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arts, Movie, Richard Gere, Sundance, Prisoners, Palestinians, Berlin Festival, Filmmaker, Palestine, Entertainment News
Daoud Kuttab

Pomegranates and Myrrh is a sensitive film by one Palestinian filmmaker about one Palestinian point of view. However, some in the Arab world are calling for the movie to be banned.

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Israel's Muted Soft Power

Michal Lewin-Epstein | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinians, Soft Power, Yossi Beilin, Israel, Peace, Joseph Nye, World News
Michal Lewin-Epstein

Israel has the potential to become a regional soft-power player. Its political values: democracy, transparency and accountability, are very attractive, and seem to be appealing to the Palestinians.

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The Mideast Conflict in 27 Words or Less

Bradley Burston | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: World, Arabs, Middle East Conflict, Israel, Cancer, Media, Palestinians, Jewish, Jews, Israel-Palestine, World News
Bradley Burston

There are two sides in the Middle East conflict: Jews and Arabs who want compromise, and Jews and Arabs who want to demonize and eradicate their neighbors.

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Arab-Israeli Town Erupts After Hardliners March (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Israel Riots, Umm El Fahm, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Arabs, Foreign Affairs, Arab Riot, Palestinians, Israeli-Arab Conflict, Israel, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Advocacy, Umm El-Fahm March, March 24 Arab Israeli Conflict, World News

Riots erupted between border police and Israeli-Arab residents Tuesday in the northern Israeli town of Umm el-Fahm following a demonstration by Jewish...

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Israel Committed Human Rights Violations In Gaza: UN Investigators

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, Foreign Affairs, United Nations, Richard Falk, Palestinians, Hamas, Israeli Airstrikes, Radhika Coomaraswamy, Human Rights, u.n. Human Rights Council, UN Human Rights Council, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel, Israel Gaza Operation, Advocacy, Gaza War, Gaza War Crimes, War Crimes, Israel War Crimes, Human Rights Abuses, World News

Investigators reporting to the United Nations Human Rights Council Monday enumerated a number of human rights violations committed by Israel during it...

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Anti-Palestinian T-Shirts Condemned By Israeli Military

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Palestinians, Israel-Palestine, Anti-Palestinian, Israel Gaza, World News

JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers wore T-shirts with a pregnant woman in the cross-hairs of a rifle and the slogan "1 Shot 2 Kills," adding to a grow...

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Far Right in Israel Sabotages Obama's Two-State Solution, But Possible Prisoner Release Offers Hope (Maybe)

Art Levine | Posted 04.15.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Fatah, Israel, Settlements, Obama, Hamas, Palestinians, The Daily Beast, Salameh Nematt, World News
Art Levine

The news that right-wing parties are forming a coalition likely dooms the prospects for Mideast peace any time soon.

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Hillary Clinton, Gaza, and the Six-State Solution

Bradley Burston | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Iran, Israel, Bradley Burston, Hillary Clinton, Gaza, Mideast, Palestinians, Middle East Peace, Middle East Politics, World News
Bradley Burston

The way forward in the Middle East: Keep back channels open to Tehran, while supporting Netanyahu, should he pick up with Syria.

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Hertz's One State Solution: Netanyahu's Rent-a-Car Ally

Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, One-State Solution, Gaza, West Bank, Corporate Responsibility, Israel-Palestine, Commerce Department, Palestinians, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business, Corporate-Social-Responsibility, Corporate America, Rental Cars, Two-State Solution, Israel, Hertz, World News
Michael Shtender-Auerbach

With Hertz operating in every major Middle Eastern country, one would think Hertz would recognize how utterly offensive its map is and immediately repeal its use.

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Syrian-Iraqi Border: Human Bargaining Chips

Fay Ferguson | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Unhcr, Al-Tanf, Palestinians, Hamas, Iraq, Syria, World News
Fay Ferguson

Bleak and hostile, al-Tanf has been home for the past three years to hundreds of Palestinian refugees -- close to half of them children -- who fled persecution in Iraq.

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Hamas, Fatah To Begin Talks On Closing Rift

AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

Read More: Hamas, Fatah, Hamas Fatah, Gaza, West Bank, Gaza West Bank, Hamas Fatah Reconciliation, Israel Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinians, Ahmed Qureia, Mussa Abu Marzuk, Omar Suleiman, Israel, World News

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Islamic militants of Hamas and the moderates of Fatah have never had more compelling reasons to repair the rift betw...

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"Don't Let It Sink" : Making Coffee with Mahmoud Darwish

Freddy Deknatel | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

Read More: Beirut, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Gaza, Occupied Territories, Pale, Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinians, Tzipi Livni, Occupied Palestine, Lebanon, Memory for Forgetfulness, Israeli Elections, Arabic Literature, Arabic Poetrty, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, War Poetry, Israel Gaza, Israel, World News
Freddy Deknatel

Under the terror of jets and shelling, the Israeli siege of Beirut, Darwish is making coffee.

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Israel's Election Day: Not a Change We Can Believe In

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 03.10.2009 | World

Read More: Peace Process, Israel Elections, Middle East Peace Process, Ilana Teitelbaum, Israel, Tzipi Livni, Knesset, Palestinians, Israel Prime Minister, Binyahim Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, World News
Ilana Teitelbaum

All three of Israel's candidates for Prime Minister belong to an era that should be receding behind us, not popping up in our ballot boxes again and again.

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UN Says Hamas Seized Aid Meant For Gaza Needy

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

Read More: Gaza, Hamas, Hamas Gaza, Un, United Nations, Humanitarian Aid, Humanitarian Aid Gaza, Gaza City, Palestine, Palestinians, Middle East, Hamas Seized Aid, Hamas Seized Aid in Gaza, World News

JERUSALEM — Armed Hamas police broke into a Gaza warehouse packed with U.N. humanitarian supplies and seized thousands of blankets and food pack...

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Israel, Hamas Prepare For Next Gaza War

TIME | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

Read More: Gaza, Arab-Israeli Conflict, The Next Gaza War, Palestinians, Hamas, Israel, The Next Israel Hamas War, World News

As Israel prepared to launch its assault into Gaza in late December, it braced for substantial casualties among its own troops. Commanders warned thei...

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Two Meals, One Story: A Perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from an American Abroad

Amy York Rubin | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Russia, Jews, Holocaust, Gaza, France, Israelis, Homeland, Palestinians, Jewish Culture, Barack Obama, Obama Jews, Israelis Palestinians, Exile, Religion, Shabbat Dinner, Austria, Soldiers, Egypt, Germany, Muslims, Religion and Politics, Israel, Sweden, World News
Amy York Rubin

From their merging of religious tradition with daily life to their personal and historical narratives, the similarities between Muslims and Jews living in Israel is almost tragically comical.

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Israel strikes Gaza after militant rocket fire

AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 03.04.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Hamas Rocket Fire, Israel, Arab-Israeli Conflict, World News

JERUSALEM — Israel threatened "harsh and disproportionate" retaliation after Gaza militants fired at least 10 rockets and mortar shells across t...

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Keeping Civilians Away From Violence

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 03.02.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinians, Israelis, Obama, George MItchell, Gaza, Middle East, George Mitchell Israel, Middle East Politics, Violence, Hamas, Israel, Israel Hamas, Obama George Mitchell, World News
Daoud Kuttab

Israel's latest assault on Gaza showed a very weak attempt at avoiding civilian deaths and injuries or the destruction of infrastructure. Similarly, Hamas rockets showed lack of concern for Israeli civilians.

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Occupation 101: Hebron

J.D. Lasica | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Middle East, Occupation, Palestinians, Hebron, World News
J.D. Lasica

The Israeli occupation is nowhere more evident than in the heart of this once thriving metropolis, whose hillsides hold 166,000 Palestinian residents but whose streets are a ghost town patrolled by the IDF.

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Searching for Accountability in Gaza

Richard Bennet and Nicholas Quin | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lebanon, Us Allies, Gaza, Crime, United Nations, War, Palestinians, Criminal Justice, Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Hamas, Israel Death Toll, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Prosecution, War Crimes, Criminal Justice System, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Idf, Israel, Israel Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Invasion, International Court of Justice, World News
Richard Bennet and Nicholas Quin

In handling the case of the Gaza airstrikes, any war crimes prosecutor would be dealing with a mere snapshot of the greater Arab-Israeli conflict.

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Obama Phone Trail Highlights New Mideast Road Map

Diane Francis | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

Read More: Jordan, Egypt, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, West Bank. President Mubarak, Gaza, Ehud Olmert, Middle East, President Abbas, King Abdullah, Israel, Obama, Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel Ground Invasion, Palestinian Territories, Hamas, Israeli Airstrikes, Gaza City, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Operation, 100 Days, World News
Diane Francis

Here is the obvious strategy to Gaza crisis that is being whispered about and probably has the best chance of succeeding and stopping the craziness and bloodshed.

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Israel, Hamas Cease Fire Agreed Upon

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 02.18.2009 | World

Read More: Israel Hamas Cease Fire, Gaza Offensive, Israeli-Arab Conflict, Palestinians, Hamas, Israel, Israel Gaza Invasion, World News

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli troops, some smiling and dancing, began to withdraw from Gaza Sunday after their government and Hamas militants ...

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Chronicles Of My Gaza Family

Hani Almadhoun | Posted 02.17.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Un Bombing, Gaza, Israel Bombs Un School, Inside Gaza, Palestinians, Family in Gaza, Israel, World News
Hani Almadhoun

My cousin Rabah's house was hit directly by an Israeli strike. This is tragic irony. Rabah opposes Hamas deeply. But missiles do not care about such things.

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