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Reported: 22:26 PM - Oct/26/09 Follow Israel news briefs on Twitter and Facebook (IsraelNN.com) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority told President Barack Obama of the United States on Monday that he would quit over the lack of progress in negotiations with Israel. During a ...
Whose Israel is It?
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 30 days ago — I have spent the day in Washington, first at the Americans for Peace Now board meeting, where I am an officer, and later at the J Street conference, where I am a participant. I go to sleep tonight with this sentiment dancing on my brain: the promise ...
The most anti-Israel president ever
yourish.com 9/25/2009 — President Barack Obama didn’t just apologize for the Bush years in his speech to the UN yesterday. He delivered what is probably the most anti-Israel speech ever given by a sitting president.
Once again, he used the argument that there is ...
A Military Can Do Wonders for an Economy -- By: Interview
article.nationalreview.com 10/28/2009 — W hy is Israel so economically successful? Dan Senor and Saul Singer go beyond stereotypes and beyond the continuing Mideast conflict to analyze this question in their new book, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle . Senor, a ...
Some Friendly (Really) Advice to JStreet
volokh.com 10/26/2009 — JStreet , which bills itself as a “pro-peace, pro-Israel” lobby, and aims to be a progressive counterpart to AIPAC, is having its convention starting tomorrow. Unlike some in the pro-Israel community, I’m not hostile to JStreet. First, I know one of ...
Yglesias at JStreet
volokh.com 10/28/2009 — Matthew Yglesias :
I was debating with Jon Chait at a J Street panel this morning on the subject of “what does it mean to be pro-Israel?” As expected, we disagreed on a number of points, most of which I was right on and he was wrong on. But one ...
Peace and Nationalism in the Middle East
commentsfromleftfield.com 10/27/2009 — Matthew Yglesias has some interesting thoughts on conflicting values for progressives in the Israel-Palestinian conflict:
I was debating with Jon Chait at a J Street panel this morning on the subject of “what does it mean to be pro-Israel?” As ...
Makes sense to me...
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com 10/28/2009 — Cotler and Goldstone: Jurists butt heads on int'l law, but agree on rules of war .......... Former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler believes that the current laws of war are sufficient, but what really needs to be changed is their selective application to Israel alone. Instead of trying ...
'Israel has always discriminated against its Arabs'
jpost.com 10/25/2009 — After security forces clashed on Sunday with Muslim rioters on the Temple Mount and elsewhere in east Jerusalem, police blamed Hamas and the Islamic Movement for once again inciting Israel's Arab population to violence in the capital. "Throughout the ...
Obama wedded to a failed “Two-State Solution”
israpundit.com 9/25/2009 — By • Louis René Beres, Purdue University, SPME
In Washington, alas, there has always been too little learning from lessons of the past. Now, in New York, President Obama elegantly repeats the worn clichés concerning a “Two State Solution.” For his part, in Jerusalem, Prime Minister ...
Peace and Nationalism in the Middle East
themoderatevoice.com 10/27/2009 — Matthew Yglesias has some interesting thoughts on conflicting values for progressives in the Israel-Palestinian conflict:
I was debating with Jon Chait at a J Street panel this morning on the subject of “what does it mean to be pro-Israel?” As expected, we disagreed on a number of points, ...
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