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Biden: The reaction
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Reactions to Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks Thursday at Tel Aviv University and his overall trip to Israel.
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Dr. Mitchell's Mideast Talking Cure
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(Wall Street Journal) Josef Joffe -Israelis and Palestinians have been talking to each other ever since the fabled "Oslo Process" of 1993. They are negotiating face-to-face about all kinds of practical matters: roadblocks, investments, tax receipts. They are in constant contact about nabbing terrorists and training Palestinian security forces. So why the "proximity talks"? Under the lea
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Israel Criticizes EU Support for Goldstone Report
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(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff -Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said: "It is remarkable that all EU members have not supported the different phases of the Goldstone process, either at the UN Human Rights Council or at the General Assembly, yet the European Parliament thinks it can afford the luxury of an irresponsible and irrelevant resolution on a report that was immoral to be
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Hurdles for U.S. as It Ramps Up Pressure on Firms Trading with Iran
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(Washington Post) Steven Mufson -The U.S. is trying to choke off the 130,000 barrels a day of gasoline that Iran imports because it lacks adequate refining capacity. But oil industry sources said that Iranian front companies were securing gasoline supplies from Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Bahrain, and that some companies in Iraq were making purchases on Iran's behalf. "All you are doing is transfe
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AIPAC on Iran sanctions: Act now
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AIPAC leaders, who tend to operate behind the scenes, are going public in a big way—with implied criticism of three presidents. By name.
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From Proximity to Peace?
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(Washington Post) Editorial -President Obama and George Mitchell erred last year by raising expectations that a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations could be achieved relatively quickly. Even now Arab leaders, who endorsed the new process last week, may hold lingering hopes that the U.S. president will impose a solution. Yet as the new administration discovered in 2009, there ar
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