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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)
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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)
13:36
Abbas: Peace impossible under violence and occupation (Haaretz)
13:11
Syria hands over captured Lebanese soldier, state TV reports (AP)
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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)
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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 | 45
LIVE BLOG: Obama visits Israel, day two
By Haaretz | 52

Galilee mosque arson - Kaminsky - October 3, 2011.

A message for Jews, in a charred mosque at Yom Kippur

If we are truly to have a new year, it must begin with an act of healing. On Yom Kippur, we are compelled to see, sometimes for the first time, how and where and how badly we have been wounded, and especially, how and where and how badly we have wounded others.

By Bradley Burston | Oct 6, 2011 | 12:29 PM | 49

UN General Assembly – 23.9.11 - AP

Will the U.S. Congress kill the two-state solution?

By effectively freezing $200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority, Congress members are surpassing the efforts of hard-line Israeli politicians.

By Bradley Burston | Oct 2, 2011 | 04:31 PM | 46

Netanyahu speech United Nations UN General Assembly

Palestine, the UN, and lies at Rosh Hashanah

This year, in Jerusalem, show us what a New Year actually looks like. Avinu Malkeinu, hoshiyeinu. Rescue us from ourselves.

By Bradley Burston | Sep 25, 2011 | 03:41 PM | 38

Palestinians hold flags and posters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Ten reasons Palestine is right to bring its case to the UN

There's a certain implied danger in the idea of playing darts in the dark. Particularly when there are numerous players in a crowded room, and not one has a well-defined target.

By Bradley Burston | Sep 13, 2011 | 07:23 PM | 74

Protest - Tal Cohen - August 6, 2011

In Israel, the future can come down to just one night

The burdens of everyday life have for so long persuaded people that they could do nothing about them. No more. It either ends here, or Israel does. Saturday night. Be there.

By Bradley Burston | Sep 2, 2011 | 04:29 PM | 25

Yoseftal 18811 Reuters

Terror, racism, and the idea that Israelis are people too

When opposition to Israeli policies crosses the line into hatred and dark stereotyping of Israelis as a whole, it turns into racism.

By Bradley Burston | Aug 19, 2011 | 08:40 PM | 62

Beck - Michal Fattal - July 11, 2011

Not Jewish enough for Glenn Beck – nor Israeli enough

Undeterred by being dropped from Fox, or by the fallout from having compared the victims of July’s Norway massacre to Hitler Youth, the media personality has assumed a prophet's intonation in urging his followers to stand with him in Jerusalem on August 24.

By Bradley Burston | Aug 14, 2011 | 05:31 PM | 106

Protest - Tal Cohen - August 6, 2011

In a reborn Israel, a glimpse of a New Israeli

The explosion of protests has sparked different modes of thinking, behavior and a reconsideration of what it is to be an Israeli.

By Bradley Burston | Aug 8, 2011 | 05:31 PM | 35

Netanyahu, Abbas, Obama

Netanyahu's trump card against Israeli protests: Peace

As protests over social welfare sweep Israel, the PM has to go the one way no one is looking: Move immediately – and sincerely - for peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

By Bradley Burston | Aug 1, 2011 | 05:21 PM | 49

Amy Winehouse - Reuters -

Using Winehouse to slam Israel, Norway dead to club Muslims

There's cowardice in an opinion piece that uses the dead to sell hatred to the living. The dead deserve better. So do the living.

By Bradley Burston | Jul 28, 2011 | 07:35 PM | 31

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