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Obama: We must push through the 'breaches of faith' on both sides (Haaretz)
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Obama: Settlement activity not appropriate or constructive to advancing peace (Haaretz)
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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)
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Obama: U.S. committed to the creation of a sovereign state of Palestine (Haaretz)
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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)
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Abba to Obama: Palestinian people have made a miracle and rose from the Nakba (Haaretz)
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Abbas: Palestinian state with Jerusalem as capital is possible (Haaretz)
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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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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 | 44
LIVE BLOG: Obama visits Israel, day two
By Haaretz | 37

U.S. President Barack Obama boarding Air Force 1.

Obama visit marks a choice for Israel: Grow up or grow old

With Israel heading for its 65th anniversary, the U.S. president's March trip sends an important message: This is the time. This is the window. Later doesn’t exist.

By Bradley Burston | Mar 12, 2013 | 01:11 PM | 4

Rabbi Menachem Froman

The purpose of Israel is peace

The purpose of Rabbi Menachem Froman was to find a place where the Jews and the non-Jews who live here were safe at last, their lives – all of their lives – accorded respect and where a distinction is made between loving the land and claiming exclusive possession of it.

By Bradley Burston | Mar 5, 2013 | 05:56 PM | 9

Sally Field and Daniel Day-Lewis appear in a scene from "Lincoln."

As Lincoln abolished slavery, Israel must abolish occupation

I realize now that I am an abolitionist and that occupation is slavery. I also realize that I need to pay more attention to Abraham Lincoln, in his ability to remind us all of the wisdom hidden in the obvious.

By Bradley Burston | Feb 26, 2013 | 11:35 AM | 73

The 19th Knesset has an opportunity to shake things up.

Obama's best and worst-case scenarios for Israel's new government

For Obama and John Kerry, still holding out hope for a two-state solution, one of the best scenarios would be a government in which Lapid's Yesh Atid agrees to co-anchor the ruling coalition with Netanyahu.

By Bradley Burston | Feb 19, 2013 | 10:41 AM | 3

Beitar Jerusalem fans protesting their team's acquisition of two Moslem players.

In Israel, hatred begins at home. Every home. So does hope.

It was only in Israel that I came to see the depth and the colors of the racism in me, the hatreds, the extremism, the crucible of intolerance and anger directed against groups of people I do not know.

By Bradley Burston | Feb 12, 2013 | 07:18 AM | 17

The Israeli film 'The Gatekeepers'

Obama's ultimate travel guide for his Israel visit: An Oscar nominee

Mr. President, see 'The Gatekeepers' on the biggest screen you've got. These men explain Israel. Let them rip your skin off for 95 minutes. It'll grow back.

By Bradley Burston | Feb 7, 2013 | 03:56 PM | 6

Richard Nixon

Obama was half right. Netanyahu is Richard Nixon, after all

Netanyahu-as-Nixon has never been more evident than in the days following the election. But will he go all the way?

By Bradley Burston | Jan 29, 2013 | 09:59 AM | 9

Netanyahu casts his ballot

With King Bibi's ship of state sinking in Pyrrhic victory, the sharks begin to circle

In the space of a few hours, Netanyahu watched as the American people formally gave their president four more years, and the people of Israel gave their prime minister six more weeks.

By Bradley Burston | Jan 22, 2013 | 10:09 PM | 9

An Israeli woman rides her bicycle past election campaign posters

If you're in Israel today, vote as if your life depended on it. It does.

Over two terms, we've learned that Netanyahu will do anything and everything to stay in power. Including nothing. Especially nothing.

By Bradley Burston | Jan 22, 2013 | 08:37 AM | 17

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

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