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Is a two-state solution dead?
It's hard to imagine now, but there was a time when a comprehensive rapprochement between Israelis and Palestinians seemed not just possible but inevitable. In the mid-1990s, the two-state solution was gaining support on both sides. Hamas and Islamic...
Tags: Politics, Israel, Joe Walsh, Fatah, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Israel's move toward early vote may shelve any attack on Iran
JERUSALEM —Israel'smove toward early elections is the latest sign that its threatened attack againstIran'snuclear facilities is unlikely to take place in the coming months. Though no final decision has been made about moving up national elections...
Tags: Politics, Israel, U.S. Elections, Nuclear Weapons, National Government
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Obama's real Israel problem -- and it isn't Bibi [Blowback]
Opinion L.A.Israel's fundamental policy toward the Palestinians is the problem -- and that policy has hardly changed, despite the seemingly diverse sequence of left, right and center parties that have been in power.... -
Book review: 'White House Diary' by Jimmy Carter
Los Angeles TimesPresidents Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover might be bracketed together for a number of reasons. Both were engineers by training, shared an almost theological faith in the chimera of governmental efficiency, believed effective management grew from close...Tags: The Washington Post, Crisis, Mass Media, Heads of State, Baptist
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PASSINGS: Dov Shilansky
Dov Shilansky
He began recitations of Holocaust victims' names
Dov Shilansky, 86, a former Israeli Parliament speaker and advocate for memorializing victims of the Holocaust, died Thursday at a Tel Aviv hospital. The cause was not given.
Shilansky...Tags: Politics, Massacres, Judaism, Israel, Tel Aviv (Israel)
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Israel glorifies its own murderers
In their March 17 Times Op-Ed article, "Why glorify the murderers?" Ron Kehrmann, Yossi Mendelevich and Yossi Zur make a number of misleading statements and remove all historical context in their effort to demonize Palestinians as people who hate...Tags: Crimes, Politics, Regional Authority, Criminals, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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The rise of Avigdor Lieberman
Israel is becoming a right-wing country. That is the most significant thing you need to know about Tuesday's election returns.
In a sense, this is no surprise. Israel has been moving right for years. It was not until 1977 -- almost 30 years after the...Tags: Peace Negotiations, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Religious Conflicts, Ehud Barak
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Letters to the editor
Put merit first Re “UCLA said yes. Now, the hard part.,” Column One, Feb. 2 As a UCLA student, I am disappointed that our school has chosen diversity over merit. Though Karina De La Cruz's experiences are not to be made light of, they do not...Tags: Education, Crimes, Defense, National Security, Yitzhak Shamir
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Israel's peace paradox
The lack of progress toward a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is an exception to the old saying that success has many fathers but failure is an orphan. The inability to resolve a struggle dating back to 1948 has many fathers and many...Tags: Politics, Israel, Judaism, Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Israel's crisis of leadership
Israel is in the throes of a grave crisis of leadership. General elections are scheduled for Feb. 10, and there is no widely respected or overwhelmingly popular leader in sight. Even with the existential threat of a nuclear Iran looming over the country,...Tags: Massacres, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Polls, Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak
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'My Two Polish Grandfathers and Other Essays on the Imaginative Life' by Witold Rybczynski
My Two Polish Grandfathers And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life Witold Rybczynski Scribner: 228 pp., $25 Overrun by exhibitionists, the memoir has turned spuriously confessional. Yet if there's one life story that could stand a bit more self-...Tags: Education, Judaism, Moshe Safdie, World War II (1939-1945), Children
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Negotiating the Mideast
American presidents have never had an easy time in the Middle East. For 60 years, they have been trying to make peace, or just prevent recurrent wars, and the record of success is thin while the death toll from the violence is disturbingly high.
The...Tags: Treaties, The Washington Post, Heads of State, Yitzhak Shamir, Peace Negotiations
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