U.S. Provides $200 Million in Budget Support PA

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The 9th of Av's new tears

By Yisrael Medad
President Obama's policies toward Israel add fresh pain to a day of lament... read more

Apartheid??

The apartheid paradigm fearfully evoked by Olmert has crept slowly but surely into mainstream political discourse on the Palestine issue...read more

Obama and Pravda

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Where does Solow Stand?

U.S. Jewish leader denies fallout with Obama over settlements dispute...read more

HISTORY RECURS: THE PRESIDENT, THE JEWS AND THE ARABS

Roosevelt said subsequently that he had learned more in a five minute
conversation with the king about the problems of the region...read more

National Jewish Leader Turns against Obama

Solow found "disturbing the objections raised to the proposed construction of residential units on property that was legally purchased. The area in question houses major Israeli governmental
agencies, including the national police headquarters... read more

The Prisons of the Arab Mind

a regressive, dogmatic interpretation of religion that is totally at odds with the realities of the age, with science and
civilization....read more

Is Israel Safe for Jews?

interview with Michael Oren, the new Israeli ambassador to the
U.S.,...read more

New conversion legislation underway

allows local rabbis to perform conversions ...read more

Amman revoking Palestinians' citizenship

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Reports in a number of Jordanian newspapers said that the Jordanian fans also chanted anti-Palestinian slogans and cursed Palestine, the PLO, Jerusalem and the Aksa Mosque...read motr

The Arab immigration wave

by Aluf Benn
An economic treasure is hidden there, a gold mine whose potential has barely been tapped: Israel's Arab citizens.read more

Knesset Speaker: PA State, Nothing More than Autonomy,

invoked the lessons learned from the Gaza withdrawal in 2005...read more

Netanyahu: Jews can live anywhere in Jerusalem

"United Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish people. Our sovereignty cannot be challenged."... read more

Israel's nuclear obsession

By PATRICK SEALE
Iranian bomb - if one were ever built - would undermine Israel's cherished security doctrine of total regional military hegemony...read more

Stop Focusing on the Settlements

By Ehud Olmert
How to Achieve a Lasting Peace... read more

AJC Praises Obama for Stressing Commitment to Israel with Jewish Leaders

The President could not have been clearer that his primary motivation in seeking to re-energize an Israeli-Palestinian peace process is Israel's long-term security...read more

Economic Revival and Security Raise Hopes in West Bank

NY Times
You don't appreciate the value of law and order until you lose it...read more

Natural Gas

over two decades of future supply... read more

Obama wants to help Israel overcome its demographic problem

Obama met with 15 American Jewish leaders...read more

Netanyahu: Palestinian recognition of Jewish state 'key to peace'

Shalom also presented a list of projects that had been delayed for years due to various bureaucratic difficulties...read more

There is no Palestinian Sadat, no Palestinian Mandela

Ari Shavit
It's true that I am short-tempered, Uzi Arad replied...read more

Does Netanyahu back two-state solution or not?

Aluf Benn
We have achieved national consensus on the concept of two states for two peoples... read more

Demographics

even Yair Lapid gets it...read more

Hamas kiddie show

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what sweet children

Fayad: Jews welcome in our future state

If Jews want to live in someplace like Hebron, or anyplace else in a Palestinian state, for whatever reasons or historical attachments, why should they not be treated the same way Israeli Arabs are?...read more

Iran today

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WATCH: Settler attacks Peace Now activists

...documenting settlement construction... read more
If all the settlers went back to Europe. Peace would break out immediately!

Secret Failure

Ze'ev B. Begin
When the PLO negotiators were explicitly asked whether, after an agreement is reached to their satisfaction, they would agree to include in it a specific article stating that this puts an end to the dispute and terminates all further claims. The PLO leadership ominously answered in the negative...read more

Where is everyone?

Ben Caspit and Ben-Dror Yemini
Imagine that this were not happening now in Tehran, but rather here. Let's say in Nablus. Spontaneous demonstrations of Palestinians turning into an ongoing bloodbath... read more
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Israel's reliable friend

Yoram Ettinger
Recent Israeli governments have underestimated the power of Congress... read more

Interview with Ron Dermer

The  first prime minister who has actually expressed a vast consensus in Israel... read more

No Amnesty for Israel in new report on Gaza

Forget the rockets from Gaza...Two days after last Christmas Israeli armed forces invaded the Gaza Strip killing 1400 Palestinians, almost all civilians including 300 children. read more

BBC pro-Israel?

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PM: Int'l consensus on 2-state solution major accomplishment

The prime minister explained that the agreement was that "the Palestinians will need to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, the refugee issue will be resolved outside of Israel's borders, and that Israel needs and will get defensible borders that include the full demilitarization of the Palestinian territory."...read more
Ha'aretz added: The prime minister added that one of the most important achievements of the first 100 days of his administration was the infusion of "real meaning" into the two-state solution.

Endorsing Palestinian apartheid

Why does world accept notion of Palestinian state free of Jews?... read more

Israel is bullied because it acts like a doormat

When the norm is to submit to pressure, the pressures only increase...read more

The Germans know about Peace

Merkel demands Israeli construction in West Bank stop, saying it endangers 'two-state solution that is urgently needed'... read more

Just say “No” to the settlement freeze

By Ted Belman
The Arabs know what they want, and that is the end of Israel...read more

Sarkozi, the Airbus 310-300 and Comoron

One-party state under Abdallah (Abu Mazen). Abdallah set up an authoritarian regime and the influence of traditional Islam increased. How compassionate were the French in Africa. Where was Lieberman when Africa needed him?... read more

We’ve Got Your Back on the Settlement Freeze, Mr. President

We cannot accept this vision absolutely, completely freezing these
settlements. I think we must keep natural growth...
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Israel as brutal as Iran

The Huffington Post has an online reach equal to that of the New York Times and LA Times and exceeds that of MSNBC. Go to the bottom of the the Huffington Post article and add your comments to the talkback debate...read more