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BREAKING NEWS

13:54
Obama: We must push through the 'breaches of faith' on both sides (Haaretz)
13:52
Obama: Settlement activity not appropriate or constructive to advancing peace (Haaretz)
13:51
Obama: Two-state solution still possible, only chance for peace and success (Haaretz)
13:51
Obama: Israel and Palestinians must make this leap together (Haaretz)
13:43
Obama: U.S. committed to the creation of a sovereign state of Palestine (Haaretz)
13:39
Obama: Palestinians deserve a future, a home, a state of their own (Haaretz)
13:37
Abbas: Palestinians ready to implement commitments in order to launch the peace process (Haaretz)
13:36
Abba to Obama: Palestinian people have made a miracle and rose from the Nakba (Haaretz)
13:36
Abbas: Palestinian state with Jerusalem as capital is possible (Haaretz)
13:36
Abbas: Peace impossible under violence and occupation (Haaretz)
13:11
Syria hands over captured Lebanese soldier, state TV reports (AP)
12:31
Syrian rebels have reportedly overrun several towns near the Israeli border (Reuters)
12:18
Report: Ramallah protesters hold up shoes, call Obama to leave Palestine (Haaretz)
11:49
Police arrests Acre resident suspected of smuggling heroin from Lebanon (Haaretz)
11:38
Report: Abbas condemns violence against civilians, including rocket fire (Reuters)

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A Special Place in Hell

by Bradley Burston

Obama, in key speech, to target Israelis who could make or break a future peace

If there is any reason to believe that Obama charm or electrify his student audience into seeing advantages to renewed peace moves, it will be the fact that many of them have had it up to here with the ideologies that have kept this country polarized for the whole of its brief history.

By Bradley Burston | Mar 20, 2013 | 10:03 PM | 9

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during an official welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion

Obama: U.S. will work closely with Israel to prevent nuclear Iran
By Barak Ravid, The Associated Press and Reuters | 13
Full transcript of Obama-Netanyahu joint press conference
By Haaretz | 4
In Obama’s itinerary, Thursday is 'Palestine Day'
By Chemi Shalev | 13
Gaza rockets slam southern Israel during Obama visit
By Amos Harel and Barak Ravid | 39
LIVE BLOG: Obama visits Israel, day two
By Haaretz | 27

The Palestinian tent camp in E-1, Jan. 12, 2013.

An Israeli in awe of a Palestinian act of non-violence

When I enter the voting booth next week, I will be taking a small piece of Bab al-Shams with me; my respect and admiration for people who cannot vote in this election, but who each cast an extraordinarily forceful absentee ballot in booths they set up themselves in E-1.

By Bradley Burston | Jan 15, 2013 | 08:50 AM | 48

Barack Obama, then senator, shares a laugh with Senator Chuck Hagel in Amman in 2008.

Will Israel bomb Iran by April? Not if Chuck Hagel can help it

If there is anyone in American governance who stands for finding all possible diplomatic means to avert war, it is the decorated, twice-wounded Vietnam veteran.

By Bradley Burston | Jan 8, 2013 | 05:31 PM | 37

Douglas Hamilton in Sarajevo.

In a writer's death on Christmas Eve, a tragic poetry

Douglas Hamilton was a standout in a field which rivals espionage for anonymity; he was a senior correspondent for a premier international news agency, and he was one of their best.

By Bradley Burston | Jan 3, 2013 | 06:19 PM | 2

Young marchers in Israel parade in New York City.

Will 2013 be the year American Jews secede from Israel?

If American Jews think that what is being done in their name is self-destructive, oppressive, blockheaded and wrong, it stands to reason they would want it to stop.

By Bradley Burston | Jan 1, 2013 | 05:11 PM | 100

Settlers marching - Daniel Bar-On - 06032012

The NRA is America's curse. And the settlements are Israel's NRA

The NRA and the settlements movements divide us as few movements can. Both have come to believe that they should in no way be curbed. Both have come to believe that they cannot be stopped.

By Bradley Burston | Dec 25, 2012 | 05:18 PM | 32

Guns - AP

The mass killer has a message for Americans: Stop me

People who are like me, we're not always all that communicative. We do have a message for Americans, though.

By Bradley Burston | Dec 20, 2012 | 03:36 PM | 2

Netanyahu lights Hanukkah candles

This Hanukkah, in Israel, all I want is a sliver of light

What makes this Hanukkah different from all others? It's the sense that this country has locked down every single door against the future, and sealed shut every last window against hope.

By Bradley Burston | Dec 11, 2012 | 01:39 PM | 12

Bibi and Obama

Netanyahu finally has his ground war: Not Hamas, but Obama

The image and the office of the U.S. president help Netanyahu stay on message. And his message to the voters he seeks out is clear: You are only as important as the people you anger.

By Bradley Burston | Dec 4, 2012 | 05:03 PM | 30

Israelis running for shelter

The Washington Post's Israel problem – and ours

The ombudsman of a respected and influential newspaper cannot afford the luxury of reducing real people and real suffering to caricature.

By Bradley Burston | Nov 29, 2012 | 01:28 PM | 4

Soldiers taking shelter

Thanksgiving at the end of a war between natives, Gazan and Israeli

We can choose to view the Thanksgiving story as a suggestion that two peoples who could be mortal enemies, could find a way to meet at a table, and break bread, and take the first tentative steps toward a common future.

By Bradley Burston | Nov 22, 2012 | 05:03 PM | 14

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