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Khamenei: Iran will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa if attacked (Reuters)
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)
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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)
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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)
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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)

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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 | 46
LIVE BLOG: Obama visits Israel, day two
By Haaretz | 52

Jerusalem women - AP - November 7, 2011

Israel, 2012: Teaching the horse to starve

An old Yiddish quip teaches an important lesson: If a country is run like a joke long enough, there's no telling who will have the last laugh.

By Bradley Burston | Dec 20, 2011 | 01:12 PM | 23

Republicans - AP - December 2011

Newt Gingrich may be able to occupy Palestine, but Israel can't

Mr. Speaker, if for the sake of Jesus and the Resurrection, you want the territories to stay occupied forever, you and your Christian Zionist allies will have to do some homework before Inauguration Day.

By Bradley Burston | Dec 13, 2011 | 03:17 PM | 68

UC Berkeley

When Jews in Berkeley vote to cut support for Israel

A decision by the Berkeley Jewish Student Union to bar J Street's student organization lends momentum to a wider tendency - the exclusion of more Jews from the shrinking tent called the American Jewish community.

By Bradley Burston | Dec 6, 2011 | 04:44 PM | 141

Tel Aviv Rally June 4, 2011 (Nir Keidar)

At last, ‘Occupation Zionists’ and Israel-loathing U.S. Jews can agree

The American Jewish community needs to be more of a family and less of a lobby. More a family and less a place of censure and censorship. More a family and less a war zone of barricaded feuding clans.

By Bradley Burston | Nov 29, 2011 | 06:58 PM | 77

Kadima MKs waving black flags - Emil Salman - 15112011

Over Netanyahu's New Israel, the B.S. light is on

How are people who support Israel supposed to understand the Black Flag legislation which has expropriated the business of the Knesset?

By Bradley Burston | Nov 22, 2011 | 05:26 PM | 35

Sukkot holiday, family, Galilee, hike

Come visit Israel. Before it's gone.

You're going to have to hurry.

By Bradley Burston | Nov 15, 2011 | 05:21 PM | 120

Iran - Reuters - October 13, 2011

To bring an end to the existence of a Jewish state, to erase Israel from the map, this is the sum total of what Iran must do now: Nothing.

By Bradley Burston | Nov 9, 2011 | 04:22 PM | 171

NYC rally Tracy Levy 15911

What does 'Death to Israel' mean to you?

If progressives cannot see Israelis as people, if they - we - cannot summon up the same compassion and concern for unarmed combatants on both sides of a battle front, it's time they checked their ideology for holes.

By Bradley Burston | Nov 3, 2011 | 03:19 PM | 76

Noam and Gilad Shalit embrace - October 18 2011

The new U.S. Zionist: Israel-bashing, made kosher

The deal to release Gilad Shalit has changed the way American Zionists relate to the Israeli government - and the freedom with which they criticize its policies.

By Bradley Burston | Oct 23, 2011 | 04:14 PM | 27

Netanyahu Shalit

Bravo for these people, these Israelis

Israel has freed 13,509 prisoners in order to win the release of a total of 16 soldiers. An average of well over 800 for each one. But this is the price.

By Bradley Burston | Oct 18, 2011 | 10:13 AM | 109

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Obama's speech will target Israelis who could make or break the future

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.

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