Advertisements Aaron Miller, long-time State Department official, warns President Obama against pushing so hard for direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Lara Friedman, of Americans for Peace Now, explores the tangled web that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will need to walk now that even the Arab League has endorsedContinue Reading
Advertisements I recently wrote about the right-wing plans being floated for a one-state solution. In truth, of course, the idea really encompassed two states, with Israel encompassing what is now that state and also including the West Bank, and Gaza being a Palestinian state. Now, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor LiebermanContinue Reading
Advertisements A video from 2001 is making the internet rounds these days, one that shows current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talking to a settler widow who had just lost her husband to a Palestinian attack at the beginning of the second intifada. In the video, Bibi says (in Hebrew,Continue Reading
Advertisements The spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister’s office held a webcast today. Mark Regev, who is expert at talking with the media and is specifically geared toward English-speaking audiences, spent half an hour answering questions that had been submitted through Facebook. If Israel is smart, they’ll have Regev doContinue Reading
Advertisements DC theater at its best. That’s what we had today as the much-anticipated photo-op meeting between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took place. Both parties got what they wanted. Obama had a warm press conference with Bibi, sending the message that American-Israeli relations areContinue Reading
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