haaretz.com - 11/2/2009
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Israel is making "unprecedented" concessions on West Bank settlement construction, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Saturday after arriving in Israel in the latest U.S. bid to renew peace talks in the region. The Obama administration had previously demanded Israel halt all ...
haaretz.com - 11/2/2009
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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 - 11/1/2009
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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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Palestinians: Obama ‘Backpedaling’ on Settlements
Taylor Marsh —
... for so much more after Cairo. Hey, talk is cheap, especially when it comes to the Middle East. But once the Goldstone report was delivered, everything shifted pretty quickly; Israel wanting a condemnation, which it got; with Obama asking Abbas to slow up the report in the United Nations Human Rights Council, which he did, hurting Abbas badly.
Now Clinton’s trying to do the dance of the settlements using language that should catch in her throat.
From Haaretz:
“It has always been an issue with negotiations,” ...
Dear Rahm: Barack Obama and Yitzhak Rabin, The Link That Will Not Help
The New Republic blogs —
... " unprecedented " in the history of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. But, just in the last few weeks, while Bibi has been more and more accommodating, Mahmoud Abbas has been more and more negative and abrasive. (Will someone at the New York Times recognize this incontrovertible fact?) The Palestinians have fabricated a crisis over the Temple Mount during this time, threatening a new intifada in the West Bank which would, of course, abort the eased security regulations in the territory, retard the fast-growing prosperity in its cities and towns and encumber the ...
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