Yitzhak Rabin

Yale Has Gone to Singapore, But Can It Come Back?

Jim Sleeper | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Yale-Nus, Chan Heng Chee, Pericles Lewis, Shaun Tan, Richard Levin, Jill Campbell, Michael Fischer, Charles Bailyn, Kay Kuok, Linda Koch Lorimer, Lee Kuan Yew, Luka Kalandarishvili, Yitzhak Rabin, College News
Jim Sleeper

Yale University sustained such a college for more than 300 years and, through it, the American republic, and for much of the time the republic led the world, but now Yale's captains have bound it contractually to an authoritarian corporate city state.

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The Jordanian Peace Initiative: A Case of Déjà Vu?

Guy Ziv | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, London Agreement, Yitzhak Rabin, Jordan, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Shamir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Third Intifada, Israel, Middle East Peace, World News
Guy Ziv

Although Israel today enjoys peace with Jordan, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to fester and, once again, Jordan is attempting to breathe life into the peace process.

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Who Dares Wins

Samuel M. Katz | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Iran War Hype, Israeli Politics, Ehud Barak, Yitzhak Rabin, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad, World News
Samuel M. Katz

How many world leaders can say that they have killed terrorist masterminds at point-blank range on a mission inside an enemy's capital? Barak has. How many world leaders have stormed a hijacked aircraft to rescue terrified passengers? Netanyahu has.

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2011, the Year the Two-State Solution Died

Carlo Strenger | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Likud, Yitzhak Rabin, One-State Solution, Israeli Settlements, Mahmud Abbas, Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu, Two-State Solution, Israel, Sari Nusseibeh, World News
Carlo Strenger

Although the two-state solution was far from perfect, at least it gave answers to these basic questions of governance and civic rights. But Israel's citizens and its government have decided. It will not be.

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Gingrich Contradicts Israeli Government Position

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Palestine, Rabin, Thomas Friedman, Yitzhak Rabin, Oslo Accord, Invented People, Middle East, Apartheid, Foreign Affairs, Israel, Arafat, Newt Gingrich, Newt Gingrich Palestinians, World News
Daoud Kuttab

While Newt Gingrich's comments to a Jewish media outlet that Palestinians are an invented people was pretty bad, what was worse is what happened (or didn't happen) afterwards.

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Orthodox Anti-Semitism Directed At Israel's Liberals

Carlo Strenger | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Knesset, Yitzhak Rabin, Liberal Jews, Yitzhak Rabin Assassination, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Israeli Settlers, Israel Right Wing, Judaism, Yaakov Katz, Religion News
Carlo Strenger

Israel's liberals are cast as the "Jewish villains." Overly cerebral, they bow to the "laws of the gentiles."

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Come Visit Israel. Before It's Gone.

Bradley Burston | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Islam, Yitzhak Rabin, Haaretz, Middle East, Bradley Burston, Palestine, Democracy, Judaism, World News
Bradley Burston

It was a place where there was an overriding belief that democracy was sacred, that minority rights should be respected more and more, rather than less and ultimately not at all.

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Washington Must Confront Its Dysfunction, If It Is to Lead

James Zogby | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Aipac, Oslo Accords, Yasser Arafat, Palestinian UN Bid, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Likud, Yitzhak Rabin, Unesco, United Nations, Israel, Unesco Palestine Recognition, Unesco Palestine Vote, World News
James Zogby

The hysteria on display in Washington over UNESCO's vote to include Palestine as a member of the world body, though largely a manufactured effort, was, nevertheless, irritating and a sad commentary on the dysfunctional nature of U.S. politics.

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Man Vandalizes Rabin Memorial To Protest Prisoner Swap

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel-Palestine, Rabin Memorial Graffiti, Rabin Memorial, Israel Memorial Graffiti, Israel, Prisoner Swap Protest, Rabin Memorial Vandalized, Shvuel Schijveschuurder, World News

JERUSALEM — An Israeli soldier captured by Gaza militants will likely return home Tuesday, said a spokeswoman for his family on Friday, ending a...

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Miral's Rula Jebreal: The Palestinian Woman who wrote the Book that Started this Big Screening War

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rula Jebreal Miral, Gaza, Julian Schnabel, Miral United Nations, Palestinians, Miral, Miral Un, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Julian Schnabel Miral, Rula Jebreal, Israeli Settlements, Israel Miral, Israeli Government Miral, Julian Schnabel Israel, Israeli Government, United Nations, Sean Penn, East Jerusalem, Exodus, Yitzhak Rabin, Un, Hadassah, Adl, Adl Miral, Anti Defamation League, Ajc Miral, Hatikva, Jerusalem, Anti-Defamation League, Rula Jebreal Peace, Screening Un, Robert De Niro, Politics News
Katie Halper

This week, days before Miral's release, I talked to Rula Jebreal about her life, her story, the film, violence, and her optimism for a peaceful future for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

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What Happens to Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty Now?

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yitzhak Rabin, Egypt, Camp David, Egypt Mubarak, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Oslo, Anwar Sadat, World News
MJ Rosenberg

The new Egypt will not repudiate a peace treaty with Israel that has saved so many lives on both sides. But the nature of the peace will change.

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The Israel That Is No Longer

Avraham Burg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Democracy, Yitzhak Rabin, World News
Avraham Burg

Rabin was apparently the last whole Israeli. He was the one who symbolized Israeliness as it wanted to be: Full of contradictions but whole; divided but bridged.

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Fifteen Years Later: Rabin and the Bullet That Rode a Crest

Adam Chandler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Salam Fayyad, Yitzhak Rabin, West Bank, Palestinians, Yitzhak Rabin Assassination, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yigal Amir, Israel, World News
Adam Chandler

Israel, a country without capital punishment, must honor Rabin by working with the Palestinians to finally put Yigal Amir's dreams to death.

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Confessions of an Israeli Anti-Settler Bigot

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, West Bank, Bradley Burston, Palestine, Barack Obama, Palestinians, Rabbi Keith Stern, Ariel, Yitzhak Rabin, Gaza, Haaretz, Middle East, Avigdor Lieberman, East Jerusalem, Israel, Judaism, World News
Bradley Burston

Settlement has long been, and remains, the fuel for the fire of de-legitimization of Israel, the basis of charges of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. It undermines the foundation of the idea of a Jewish state.

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Beyond Peace in the Middle East at CGI

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bill Clinton, Fareed Zakaria GPS, Middle East Politics, Bahrain, Yitzhak Rabin Assassination, Fareed Zakaria, Middle East Peace, Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Middle East, Egypt, Cnn, Hillary Clinton, Fareed Zakaria CNN, Politics News
Michelle Kraus

It was a rare gift to be able to hear the Middle East session up close at this years Clinton Global Initiative. It is curious that there was not enormous media coverage of this landmark discussion

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Noam Chomsky on Israel

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jordan, Egypt, Jews, Anwar Sadat, President Obama, Noam Chomsky, Pakistan, Palestine, Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zones, Lebanon, Hamas, Hezbollah, Jewish-Americans, Palestinians, West Bank, Yitzhak Rabin, Two-State Settlement, Ezer Weizman, Gaza Strip, Israel Expansion, Jewish, Ariel Sharon, Israel, Camp David Settlement, World News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

"The attitude towards Israel on the part of the intellectual community changed very sharply in 1967, from either lack of interest or sometimes even disdain, to almost passionate support. So what happened?"

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Obama: Middle East Peace Talks to Begin Next Week

Eileen Read | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Territories, Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, Jerusalem, Hillary Clinton 2008, George MItchell, Palestinians, Barack Obama, Middle East Peace, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yitzhak Rabin, East Jerusalem, King Hussein, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mideast, World News
Eileen Read

The first round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in a decade will begin next week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced late Friday. These are the talks that should have started a year ago.

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By George, I Think the Palestinians Have Got It!

Ami Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Le Monde, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel, David Ben Gurion, Ziad Abu Zayyaad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Abu Mazen, Palestinians, World News
Ami Kaufman

This is a new kind of language coming out of the West Bank, and this new attitude and leadership from the Palestinian side is already bearing fruit on the diplomatic front.

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Organizing to Stop Far Right Violence

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Far-Right Fundamentalism, Yitzhak Rabin, Hate Speech, Hate Crimes, Eric Holder Attorney General, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Other people, besides former evangelicals like me, are finally starting to realize that there is a serious problem facing America. What are we going to do about the haters?

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Obama and the Nobel: Just Bizarre

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zimbabwe, Sweden, Nuclear Weapons, Peace Prize, Nobel, War, Morgan Tsvangvirai, Norway, Afghanistan, Thorbjorn Jagland, Iraq, Sima Samar, China, Barack Obama, Hu Jia, Muhammad Yunus, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Palestine, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel, World News
Jesse Larner

Now I know a lot of my friends are going to be very happy about this; a new day has dawned, etc. Personally I found it inexplicable. And disturbing. And vaguely annoying.

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Examining Peace, Remembering Rabin: Some Reflections on the J-Street Conference

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yitzhak Rabin, Peace, J-Street, Jewish Community, World News
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

To water the seeds of peace, we need to recognize the humanity on all sides of this conflict and work to create a framework of peace that acknowledges the truths of two distinct narratives.

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NBC's Brian Williams: Changing the World for the Better

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, White House, Council on Foreign Relations, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, Bono, Thought Leaders, Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, Columbia University School of Journalism, Global Citizens, Msnbc, Cnbc, Yitzhak Rabin, Jim Luce, Time Magazine?S 100 Most Influential People in the World., Hurricane Katrina, Nigeria, Jane Stoddard Williams, Bill Clinton, Kabul, New Canaan, Ghana, Ohio State University, Making a Difference, Paul Stevers, Bates College, Facebook, Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News, HIV/AIDS, Andeisha Farid, Tom Brokaw, Mali, Afghan Child Education and Care Organization, Walter Cronkite, Afceco, Disease, Jimmy Carter, Afghanistan, Orphans International Worldwide, Poverty, Haiti Earthquake, New York News
Jim Luce

Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...

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Does President Obama -- and America -- Deserve the Nobel Prize?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yassir Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Mohamed ElBaradei, Nelson Mandela, Red Cross, Middle East, Mother Theresa, Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel, Peace, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Lech Walesa, Mohammed ElBaradei, World News
Hoyt Hilsman

This movement to change America did not begin when Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office -- it has been underway for decades.

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Following in Rabin's Footsteps Toward Peace

Asaf Shariv | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yasser Arafat, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin Assassination, Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Jerusalem, World News
Asaf Shariv

Peace in the Mideast can be a reality. It's one that the late-Prime Minister Rabin sacrificed his life to achieve, and toward which every single Israeli Prime Minister thereafter has worked.

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Shimon Peres Calls On Mahmoud Abbas Not To Quit

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jerusalem, Gaza, Middle East Peace, Netanyahu, Oslo Peace Accord, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Fatah, Hamas, Palestinian Politics, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, US, Mideast Peace, Peres, World News

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel's president on Saturday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the...

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