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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)
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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)
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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)
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 | 44
LIVE BLOG: Obama visits Israel, day two
By Haaretz | 37

Old City of Jerusalem - Gora Berger

A Jewish heart vs. a Jewish state: Choose the first - or we will lose both

How did we reach the point when the Jewish state – the state that runs on tank treads and blindness to occupation and acceptance of monopolistic, corrupt, klal yisrael-hating Orthodoxy – takes precedence over the Jewish heart?

By Bradley Burston | Jun 21, 2012 | 11:24 PM | 3

African migrants - Daniel Bar-On - 10.6.2012

A world away, rightist-Zionist youths decry racism in Israel

Recent remarks by Israeli officials have been so racist, that even the Likud-affiliated youth movement in Australia sent out a letter in protest.

By Bradley Burston | Jun 14, 2012 | 02:51 PM | 2

Jonathan Pollard during an interview, May 15, 1998.

Mr. Obama, freeing Jonathan Pollard won't help you. Do it anyway

Pollard has served more than enough time for what he did. Justice has been done. What is being done now, is injustice.

By Bradley Burston | Jun 12, 2012 | 04:39 PM | 18

Marvin Hier - Kobi Zaig

Visit Jerusalem's new Museum of Tolerance. Feel your blood boil

Why, in Jerusalem, the neediest of Israel's cities, is an American rabbi spending some 100 million donated dollars to build what appears, more and more, to be a monument to himself?

By Bradley Burston | Jun 7, 2012 | 12:07 PM | 10

Avigdor Lieberman

The Holocaust means never having to say you're sorry

Lieberman has given Israel's stance -we simply cannot afford to apologize to Turkey for the flotilla incident. Even if our life depends on it.

By Bradley Burston | Jun 5, 2012 | 09:48 AM | 3

MK Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich with MK Alex Miller at a Knesset hearing in January, 2012.

Who would this Israeli lawmaker round up and send to 'the camps?' It could be you

Kadima MK proposes transporting human rights activists to a detention camp, adding 'Let them work there.'

By Bradley Burston | May 31, 2012 | 03:47 PM | 28

Last summer's social protest.

Giving up on Israel as a new branch of Judaism

I, too, have in many ways joined what has become the newest branch of Judaism: None Jews.

By Bradley Burston | May 29, 2012 | 02:44 PM | 5

Netanyahu TIME cover

Despise and distrust Netanyahu? Give the man a chance

'King Bibi' has every ounce of the intelligence, imagination, sense of history, political savvy, electoral strength and human courage needed to forge a workable peace with the Palestinians. But will he live up to the challenge?

By Bradley Burston | May 22, 2012 | 04:50 PM | 20

Alex Miller Knesset committee 2.2012

Thank you, Russian immigrant to Israel, for Nakba Day

Alex Miller will go down in history as the Israeli politician who tried his damnedest to erase the memory of the Nakba - and, in doing so, made the Nakba an indelible part of our lives.

By Bradley Burston | May 15, 2012 | 11:22 AM | 10

IDF soldiers in a West Bank settlement

The progressive who paints Israel as a genocidal Nazi state

In reducing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to obscene caricature, delegate Margaret Novak may have inadvertently taught her church, and all of us, a worthwhile lesson in activism, if only by astoundingly negative example.

By Bradley Burston | May 13, 2012 | 09:13 AM | 18

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