Nathan Guttman and Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Guttman and Nathan Jeffay
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Israel News Bowe Bergdahl Deal Mirrors Gilad Shalit — But America and Israel React Differently
The news of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s release caught Noam Shalit, father of Israel’s most famous prisoner of war, while he was visiting America. Listening to the media reports about the prisoner swap that freed Bergdahl from years of captivity by Afghanistan’s Taliban, Shalit was struck by the similarities between the case of the soldier from…
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Israel News What’s Israel’s Plan B as Peace Talks Look Doomed?
What’s the fallback plan? That’s the question increasingly on the minds of Middle East policymakers and analysts as Secretary of State John Kerry struggles to save the Israeli-Palestinian peace process from collapse. For the Palestinians, the path forward in the event of a collapse is clear: They will seek international recognition as a state in…
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Israel News Bedouins Fight Israel’s Resettlement Plan — and Bid for American Jews’ Support
Critics of Israeli legislation aimed at urbanizing the Bedouin population of the Negev desert are trying to enlist American Jews to support their struggle and to apply pressure on the Israeli government to halt implementation of the program. The plight of the Bedouins, dramatized in the 2012 award-winning feature film “Sharqiya,” is that their land…
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Israel News Tensions Threaten To Complicate Obama’s Middle East Listening Tour
A presidential trip designed as little more than a polite visit aimed at strengthening relations — while avoiding thorny issues — could be forced to face unexpectedly tough and substantive questions as conditions on the ground in Israel and the West Bank change rapidly. Palestinian unrest in the occupied West Bank and an unresolved post-election…
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Israel News Israel’s Health Care Outpaces U.S.
The heated debate over health care reform, reignited by the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s plan, has drawn attention, once again, to the issue of government involvement in health care management and the effectiveness of a system based on universal coverage. For Israel, this is a Rubicon crossed long ago. Despite the…
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