jta.org - 29 days ago
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised Israel for offering ''unprecedented'' concessions on West Bank settlement construction.
haaretz.com - 29 days ago
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haaretz.com —
Barack Obama has been busy - offering the
Jewish People blessings for Rosh Hashanah, and recording a...
flattering video for the President's Conference in Jerusalem and another for Yitzhak Rabin's memorial rally. Only Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah surpasses ...
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America, stop sucking up to Israel
powerlineblog.com - 29 days ago
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powerlineblog.com —
Hillary Clinton continued her farcical visit to Pakistan
today by blaming Obama's failure to make any progress...
with respect to Israeli-Palestinian relations on George W. Bush. Clinton told a group of Pakistani journalists I think that, look, we ...
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No class, bad memory
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 10/30/2009
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jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com —
I'm telling people who are worried about the
hijinks at the unofficial J Street bloggers' panel not...
to become overly bothered by it; it was a clownish event, and the people on the panel were marginal figures except in the rather circumscribed ...
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Israel putting forth 'unprecedented' concessions, Clinton says
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely —
... the meeting, a royal palace statement released in Jordan said both leaders "insisted on the need for an immediate halt of all Israeli unilateral actions, which undermine the chances of achieving peace, especially the settlement construction."
** Abbas spokesman: Netanyahu has more influence in US than in Israel
** Palestinians accuse Clinton of hurting peace talks
** Clinton: Mideast Talks Should Resume Without Preconditions
** Bibi to Palestinians: ‘Get a grip’
Sending a Clear Message to the Muslim World
Firedoglake —
... Clinton was tentatively scheduled to head to Afghanistan but given the election mess there, changed her plans and headed to Abu Dhabi. There she met with Fatah’s Abbas, pressuring him to reopen talks with Israel – and to approve Israeli construction of 3,000 new settlement housing units. ...
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