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Obama to recommend extending loan guarantees for Israel
World NowThe Obama administration will recommend that Congress extend American loan guarantees currently provided to Israel, according to an Israeli report Wednesday.... -
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, Gaza Crisis (2008), Politics, Regional Authority, Palestine
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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, Gaza Crisis (2008), Armed Conflicts, Immigration
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State of mind
Having worked for six secretaries of State over 20 years, I have a pretty clear sense of what makes a good one -- and with the economic and financial crisis overshadowing foreign policy these days, the selection of an effective secretary of State is now...Tags: Diplomacy, Woodrow Wilson, Politics, Israel, International Relations
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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: Yitzhak Rabin, Gaza Crisis (2008), Religious Conflicts, Lebanon, Jimmy Carter
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ISRAEL: The peace process and that White House phone number thing
Babylon & BeyondThe White House phone number is no secret. Nor is it a secret that it's not actually the president who answers it. The public number is used to register comments on a range of issues including preventing military escalation in...... -
Should the U.S. help broker peace?
Today's question: Should the goal of the peace process be a lasting peace or management of the stalemate? Does the U.S. have a role? Click here to read previous exchanges of this week's Dust-Up. Point: George E. Bisharat The United States has a moral...Tags: Education, Gaza Crisis (2008), Religious Conflicts, Lebanon, Lawyers
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From the archives: U.S., Iran Extend Diplomatic Feelers
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersWASHINGTON -- The United States and Iran engaged in long-distance diplomacy Thursday over the fate of U.S. hostages in Lebanon, with an Iranian newspaper suggesting that the two nations use Pakistan as an intermediary and U.S. officials calling the report...Tags: Politics, Guerrilla Activity, Death, Lebanon, Armed Forces
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U.S. campaign causes jitters
Tribune foreign correspondentIn some Israelis' eyes, it looks like an anti-terror campaign extending invitations to terrorists. Initially enthusiastic that the Americans were stepping up their fight against terrorism, the Israelis now are worried that the U.S.-led campaign against...Tags: United Kingdom, Religious Conflicts, Shimon Peres, Defense, Ariel Sharon
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Mideast talks full of rewards and risks
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Seven weeks after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush and the leaders of Israel and the Arab world face both rewards and risks as they turn their attention from war to peace at a pair of summits near the Red Sea this week. On his first...Tags: Republican Party, Gaza Crisis (2008), Armed Conflicts, Religious Conflicts, United Nations
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Israel planned to kill Hussein in 1992
From Wire ReportsJERUSALEM - Just days after U.S. soldiers put Saddam Hussein behind bars, Israeli military censors have lifted a ban on reporting a tightly held government secret: a plan to assassinate the Iraqi leader at his uncle's funeral in 1992. Israel, moving...Tags: Ehud Barak, Religious Conflicts, Defense, Transportation Accidents, Israel
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Michael Collins
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 11, 1996 Not every life is worth a movie, and of those only a few make it to the screen. Rarest of all is an epic true story, the very stuff of cinema, that has been transferred to film with matching intelligence, skill and elan. That...Tags: Crimes, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, History, John Huston
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