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Obama can and must make clear to Israel how the continuation of the occupation could affect bilateral relations, harm the U.S. position in the region and erode the American public’s support for Israel.

By Haaretz Editorial | Mar 20, 2013 | 05:17 AM | 11

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Bureau

Black trailblazers Obama and beauty queen Aynaw to talk about ... Pollard?

Have Israeli leaders co-opted the country's beauty queen to raise the issue of Jonathan Pollard with President Obama because she is Ethiopian? Do they think Obama will reconsider Pollard just because another black person asks him to?

By Sarah Hankins | Mar 21, 2013 | 12:12 PM

A special law for caregivers

A High Court ruling made this week removes the shield of protective labor laws from live-in caregivers.

By Haaretz Editorial | Mar 21, 2013 | 05:30 AM

Obama's wake-up speech to Israelis: Don't let your freedom drown in the swamp of occupation

President Obama’s speech in Jerusalem will be clear: Israelis, don’t let your Jewish Athens become a Sparta of eternal war.

By Ari Shavit | Mar 21, 2013 | 05:27 AM | 3

Time to put an Alawite state on the map

Obama’s visit is an important opportunity for Israel to lobby for a grand agreement between the U.S. and Russia to protect and disarm the Alawite minority in Syria after the fall of Bashar Assad's regime.

By Ely Karmon | Mar 20, 2013 | 08:01 PM | 6

Please pressure us, Obama

Maybe it's just a fantasy that Israel will be subject to U.S. pressure and end the occupation, but the alternative is a nightmare.

By Gideon Levy | Mar 20, 2013 | 07:15 PM | 5

How the Haredim have exploited state assistance

Outgoing Housing Minister Ariel Atias set criteria for housing assistance specifically for Haredim, going against the Trajtenberg Committee’s recommendations.

By Meirav Arlosoroff | Mar 20, 2013 | 10:38 AM | 3

President's visit marks the end to Israeli insularity

But visit will not bring about the end of the occupation, the dismantling of settlements, the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank, or even the destruction of the Iranian nuclear program.

By Aluf Benn | Mar 20, 2013 | 05:02 AM | 8

The charm of the wretched and outcast

If there is a chance for 'new politics' and what it is meant to represent, it is, in fact, in the untamed wasteland of the new opposition-in one of its most interesting constellations in the history of the Israeli parliament.

By Ravit Hecht | Mar 20, 2013 | 04:46 AM

America’s defender of the status quo(s)

If a black president doesn’t change the internal American reality, why should anyone expect him to do anything against the Jewish separation regime that has been created here between the river and the sea?

By Amira Hass | Mar 20, 2013 | 04:44 AM | 8

He came to say goodbye

President Obama's visit attests to Washington's strategic choice: to neglect the Middle East peace process.

By Zvi Bar'el | Mar 20, 2013 | 04:35 AM | 4

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