thinkprogress.org - 6/4/2009
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Last month, President Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and pressed for focus on a resolution to the Israel-Palestine dispute. Obama specifically called on Israel to freeze all settlements in the West Bank. “ Settlements have to be stopped in order for us to move ...
prospect.org - 6/5/2009
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prospect.org —
Our Jerusalem correspondent finds that Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's argument for allowing continued construction in settlements...
contains layers of deception.
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House Hunting in the West Bank
corner.nationalreview.com - 6/5/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
From an Israeli perspective, Pres. Barack Obama's speech
today in Cairo was deeply disturbing. Both rhetorically and...
programmatically, Obama's speech was a renunciation of America's strategic alliance with Israel. Rhetorically, Obama's sugar coated ...
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The End of America's Strategic Alliance with Israel?
haaretz.com - 6/3/2009
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haaretz.com —
For the first time in America's decades of
jousting with Israel over West Bank settlements, an American...
president seems to have succeeded in isolating the settlements issue and disconnecting it from other elements of support for Israel. It is a ...
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Key U.S. Jews wary of Netanyahu's unbending policy on ...
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