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News Put Abbas to the Test
The tendentious exchange between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu these last few days underscores how differently each man views the third party in the on-again, off-again Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. That would be Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. So diametrically opposed are Obama and Netanyahu in their public assessment of the Palestinian leader that there…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Digs In Heels in Tense White House Talks on Peace
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told Barack Obama on Monday that Israelis expected their leader not to compromise on their security even as the U.S. president sought to reassure him on Iran diplomacy and pressure him on Middle East peace talks. In White House talks overshadowed by the Ukraine crisis, the two leaders tried…
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Israel News At AIPAC, Two Energy Entrepreneurs Debate How To Power Israel’s Future
Israel faces the prospect of freeing itself from dependence on foreign oil in the near future, with potentially transformative impact on the country’s economic and political future, two experts agreed Sunday during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington. But Yosef Abramowitz and Harold Vinegar, two entrepreneurs seeking to upend Israel’s energy future,…
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Opinion At AIPAC Parley, Even Friends Fault Obama
Getty Images As hard as leaders of AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, are trying to maintain a politely bipartisan tone among the 14,000 activists gathered for the lobby’s annual conference, unhappiness with the Obama administration keeps surfacing in small conference rooms and chats in the corridors. Occasionally rancor surfaces in the mass plenary sessions, despite the…
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Fast Forward Obama Assures Netanyahu Of Commitment To Preventing Nuclear-Armed Iran
President Barack Obama assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that Washington remains committed to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons and also called on Israel and the Palestinians to compromise to reach a U.S.-brokered peace framework. In a meeting at the White House, Netanyahu told Obama that no country has a greater stake…
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Opinion How ‘De-Arabizing’ Christians Serves Israel
Palestinian Orthodox Christians at the 2013 Palm Sunday procession in Gaza City / Getty Images Last week the Knesset voted to force yet another division onto the Palestinian people. The Palestinians are already divided in a myriad of ways: There are those who live in the Diaspora and are divided there, from America’s well-fed middle…
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Israel News African Asylum Seeker Stays Positive in Israeli Detention Facility
(Haaretz) — Hassan Shakur has made a deliberate decision not to be negative or bitter. He will be optimistic, he says, despite the horrific “times of misery,” as he refers to them, in his homeland, Darfur. Despite a gruesome experience in Cairo and then the escape to Israel. And despite the racism he has encountered in…
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Fast Forward Israel Admits Doubling Settlement-Building in 2013
Israel began building twice as many settler homes in the occupied West Bank last year as in 2012, official data showed on Monday, just hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to meet U.S. President Barack Obama. Obama has been sharply critical of Jewish construction on land Palestinians want for a future state. Such…
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