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Opinion Call War-weakened Leaders To a Second Madrid Conference
The fate of the Middle East, over which recent events in both Gaza and Lebanon cast a foreboding shadow, is dependent on five weak leaders. The nominal world leader, American President George Bush, has reached the nadir of his political standing at home and is very much afraid of the loss of his Republican majority…
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Culture Hip Hop as Conflict Resolution
CORRECTION: In the print version of this story, the Palestinian group DAM was mistakenly identified. The members are from Lod, Israel. If the only rap you’ve heard is of the gangsta variety, and the only MCs you recognize are those whose mug shots you’ve seen on television, you’re not likely to think of hip hop…
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News Groups Push For Sanctions, Fear U.S. Will Falter on Iran
WASHINGTON — Jewish organization are seeking to mobilize the international community, through direct meetings with foreign diplomats and by lobbying the Bush administration, to impose sanctions on Iran for defiantly carrying on with its nuclear program. With the arrival of the August 31 deadline for Iran to stop its enrichment of uranium, pro-Israel groups are…
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Israel News In Hezbollah Chief’s Regrets, Israelis Suddenly See Victory
HAIFA — “I’m going to tell you something that might surprise you,” novelist A.B. Yehoshua said over coffee in his hometown this past Monday. “I think this was a successful war.” This was indeed surprising. Three weeks earlier, Yehoshua, one of Israel’s most iconoclastic liberals, had joined with fellow novelists Amos Oz and David Grossman…
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Israel News Scholars Use Arab Forum To Slam ‘Lobby’
WASHINGTON — Two American scholars who earlier this year authored a paper charging that the “Israel Lobby” had seized control of America’s Middle East policy have reopened their attacks, this time claiming that Jerusalem’s allies pressured the Bush admini stration into supporting Israel during its recent war in Lebanon against Hezbollah. At an August 28…
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Israel News Push for Inquiry Presents Olmert With Major Hurdle
Virtually everyone on the Knesset’s prestigious Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee wants a state commission of inquiry into this summer’s war in Lebanon — everyone, that is, but members of Ehud Olmert’s ruling Kadima party. City council members in missile-shattered Kiryat Shmonah demanded of Prime Minister Olmert that he establish a state inquiry when he…
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Israel News Calls for Talks With Syria Increase in U.S., Israel
In the wake of the Lebanon war, influential policy makers in Washington and Jerusalem have begun pushing for a major diplomatic opening to Syria. Four members of the Israeli Cabinet, including Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter, have called publicly in recent days for negotiations with Syria, which is seen by…
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Israel News Rabbis: Israel Too Worried Over Civilian Deaths
As international human rights organizations decry the high toll of civilian deaths suffered in the Lebanon war, America’s main organization of Modern Orthodox rabbis is calling on the Israeli military to be less concerned with avoiding civilian casualties on the opposing side when carrying out future operations. Following a solidarity mission to Israel last week,…
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