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15:25
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)
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)

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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 | 49

The Ulpana neighborhood in Beit El.

Netanyahu's next Israel: Bad for the Right, good for the Jews

This is no longer the elected government of Israel. This is the hand-picked junta of the state of Bullpucky.

By Bradley Burston | May 8, 2012 | 01:50 PM | 12

Left-wing protest - Tal Cohen - 15.1.2011

Conversations with Israel, Part 1: How to be a better activist

In the first installment of a series of conversations, readers are invited to take part, addressing the questions of whether activism still has a place in a world which can seem incapable of change for the better.

By Bradley Burston | May 3, 2012 | 04:33 PM | 3

Hila Betzaleli - IDF Spokesperson - May 1, 2012

Boycotting the true heart of Israel

Hila Betzaleli and Achinoam Nini are the true heart of Israel, the heart which needs support and protection and recognition. The heart that is the reason that there's still an Israel to love.

By Bradley Burston | May 1, 2012 | 01:17 PM | 35

Ramallah market - Daniel Bar-On

This Israel Independence Day, I’m buying Palestinian

Family-owned West Bank Palestinian companies who only want to expand their sales to Israelis have faced mounting bureaucratic obstacles from Israeli officials.

By Bradley Burston | Apr 24, 2012 | 05:21 PM | 50

Eisner - AP / ISM - April 14, 2012

When a colonel rams a rifle into the face of Israel

Israelis have become used to warding off what they feel is routine demonization, blind misapprehension and little understanding from the world. Until this week, when we had to look.

By Bradley Burston | Apr 17, 2012 | 06:25 PM | 35

shmura matza

Seder, Israel, Second Cup: Blessed is the second chance

Blessed are You, Creator of the human trait of rebellion, and, thus, inventor of freedom.

By Bradley Burston | Apr 3, 2012 | 05:20 PM | 4

West Bank

One state – one vote: Rethinking an Israeli Spring

There is no denying that settlement construction, Palestinian disunity, and other factors are fast rendering the two-state concept impracticable.

By Bradley Burston | Mar 27, 2012 | 06:14 PM | 65

Israel U.S. Jewish Americans May 22, 2011

When 'pro-Israel' means comparing Israel to the Nazis

It's time for U.S. Jews to examine the Zionist Organization of America,and ask whether it is really pro-Israel or not.

By Bradley Burston | Mar 20, 2012 | 04:34 PM | 46

rocket

To the leftist who has no problem with rocket fire on Israel

When a leftist notes that rockets have killed 'only 28' Israelis it may be time to ask, what it is, exactly, that's supposed to make a person a leftist?

By Bradley Burston | Mar 13, 2012 | 04:15 PM | 84

Barack Obama Benjamin Netanyahu - PMO - 06032012

If Obama wins in November, is Netanyahu in trouble?

No one will be following the U.S. presidential campaign more closely than the man adored by Republicans nationwide as the favorite son they can never adopt, Benjamin Netanyahu.

By Bradley Burston | Mar 7, 2012 | 05:22 PM | 36

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