haaretz.com - 5/18/2009
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The sad truth is that the State of Israel will face a confrontation with the Obama administration, irrespective of the public outcome of the meeting between the U.S. president and Israel's prime minister. The soothing statements being made on the hour by government spokesmen cannot hide the ...
article.nationalreview.com - 5/16/2009
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article.nationalreview.com —
I n advance of Israeli prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu s visit to the United States on Monday,...
President Obama unveiled a new strategy for throwing Israel to the wolves. It takes the form of enthusiasm for the United Nations and international ...
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Bayefsky: Obamas U.N. Mistake
haaretz.com - 5/15/2009
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haaretz.com —
Israeli government ministers and Knesset members who will
help make the decision about whether to attack Iran's...
nuclear facilities do not have to wait any longer for a preparatory briefing by the Israel Air Force. They can read about all the possible ...
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Here's how Israel would destroy Iran's nuclear program - ...
jpost.com - 5/18/2009
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jpost.com —
Only 31 percent of Israelis consider the views
of American president Barack Obama's administration pro-Israel, according to...
a Smith Research poll released Sunday, on the eve of the meeting between Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the ...
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'31% of Israelis call Obama pro-Israel' | Israel | ...
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... Obama is his usual shifting self. It’s not so much that he’s a blank slate; it’s that he’s given out such a variety of mixed messages, and has changed his tune on so many other things, that there’s no telling which way he’ll jump. However, the preponderance of evidence points in the ominous Jimmy Carteresque direction: ...
Video: Obama and Netanyahu waste each other’s time
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... “The moment of truth is at hand,” declares a Haaretz op-ed contributor, before declaring The One the second coming of Jimmy Carter . In reality, though, there’s no truth to this moment. Obama agrees that Iran’s a very grave threat which we’ll have to address one of these days (but not now) and Bibi agrees that a Palestinian state is very important and he’ll get right on it once the Palestinians acknowledge Israel is a ...
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