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Fareed Zakaria Article 2. NYT Parties See Obama’s Israel Policy as Wedge for 2012 Jackie Calmes and Helene Cooper Antcle S- | Foreign Policy Hey, Bibi: Calling Hamas the al Qaeda of Palestine isn't just wrong, it's stupid Daniel Byman Article 4. Bloomberg Why Palestinians Have Time on Their Side J

1 26 May, 2011 Article 1. The Washington Post Where Netanyahu fails himself and Israel Fareed Zakaria Article 2. NYT Parties See Obama’s Israel Policy as Wedge for 2012 Jackie Calmes and Helene Cooper Antcle S- | Foreign Policy Hey, Bibi: Calling

ngealing in Washington that President Obama was wrong to demarcate a shift in American policy toward Israel last week. In fact, it was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who broke with the past — in one of a series of diversions and obstacles Netanyahu has come up with anytime he is pressed. He wins in the short run,

t. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023533 --- PAGE BREAK --- Article 5. The Daily Beast The Palestinian Right to Dream Peter Beinart May 25, 2011 -- I watched Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress with a guy named Fadi Quran. He recently graduated from Stanford, where he double-majored in physics and international relations.

ael gets no credit from Obama for a year of moderate settlement construction Elliott Abrams and Uri Sadot March 14 -- Last week's meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama must have been tense. Two days before the meeting, the president publicly accused Israel of more "aggressive settlement construct

natural growth. So much for the president's claim of "aggressive construction." EFTA00684178 In fact, what the much-cited CBS data reveal is that Netanyahu's track record on this issue is more restrained than that of Ehud Barak, the last Labor Party prime minister, whose government approved three times

> Subject: March 14 update Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:22:47 +0000 14 March, 2014 Article 1. The Washington Post Why (this time) Obama must lead Fareed Zakaria Article 2. The Washington Post In Syria, rebel with a cause David Ignatius Article 3. The Washington Post Israel gets no credit from Obama for a

the measures necessary to preserve it. A cult of toughness developed among Israel's political elite, which has taken full flower in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition partners. But Peres remained outside the tough-guy circle. He spoke openly, perpetually, about his yearning for peace. Peres's g

cal wedding, never quite achieving the status of some of his contemporaries. But he outlasted them all, and as Americans began to wonder during the Netanyahu years whether Israel was really committed to a two-state solution to the Palestinian problem, Peres was a reassuring affirmation. The optimistic s

al Peace Hezbollah's Iraq Problems Alexander Corbeil Article 5. The Washington Post Hillary Clinton's truly hard choice: Change or continuity) Fareed Zakaria Article 6. The Atlantic Secrets of the Creative Brain Nancy Andreasen The Washington Post Shimon Peres, Israel's dreamer and doer David Ignatiu

ee of those programs. On ABC World News TonightVi (5/20, lead story, 4:50, 5.47M), David Muir said President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the announcement, and later appeared "before the cameras, saying he supported Israel's right to defend itself, but also saying Israelis and

id it unanimously approved an Egyptian initiative for Israel and Hamas to simultaneously stop their attacks." Biden: "My conversation with President Netanyahu, I commended him for the decision to bring the current hostilities to a close." The AP (5/20) reports Biden "hailed the cease-fire in the fighting

riticism from progressives. The Journal says the US must reaffirm its commitment to its allies in the region, and to containing radical militants. Fareed Zakaria writes in the Washington Post (5/20, 10.52M) that violence between the Israelis and Palestinians "can only be resolved through moral persuasion." Za

become a much more religious and stridently ethnocentric country over the years, and it's got to the stage where, he notes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who originally came to power on a platform of rejecting concessions to the Palestinians, is regarded as a moderate conservative. The settler movem

he U.S. government's failure to do anything about it, was undermining U.S. influence elsewhere in the Middle East. But nothing really changes, and Netanyahu and his allies are well aware of this. In 2010, they humiliated Vice-President Joseph Biden by unveiling a plan for new settlements during one of h

n's leadership had been decimated. It was the Arab Spring that sprang them. The other great paradox is what Mr. Hamid calls, lifting a phrase from Fareed Zakaria, the "illiberal democracy" that the Islamists champion. Groups such as the Brotherhood, he writes, "are interested in fashioning religiously orient

t. The Saudis, the Israelis, and the Republican leadership made their opposition known on the Sunday- morning shows and through diplomatic channels. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, called the agreement a "historic mistake." Even a putative ally like New York Senator Chuck Schumer could go on "Meet

e told university students that "political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks." Obama, who has pressed Netanyahu to muster the political will to take risks on his own, thinks he can help "create a space"—that is the term around the White House—for forward EFT

and change comes to countries in its own way, modernization comes in its own way, rather than through liberation narratives coming from the West," Fareed Zakaria, a writer on foreign policy whom Obama reads and consults, says. Anne-Marie Slaughter, who worked at the State Department as Hillary Clinton's dire

build a bomb for at least a decade, maybe longer. Still, there are two questions that a final deal would have to answer concretely. EFTA00860493 Netanyahu's unlikely allies in opposing the deal — the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other Sunni Muslim oligarchies — simply don't want a deal at all. Th

el jihadi terrorist "Islamic" -- except that by doing so it will start an ideological war giving the proponents of radical Islam legitimacy. And as Fareed Zakaria wrote in a recent op-ed in The Washington Post this is - An ideological war America must watch, not fight. Zakaria pointed out that "our" image of

country we aren't even at war with?" • Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI: "If you think Iran is done retaliating, think again." • Fareed Zakaria: "Trump does not have a foreign policy. He has a series of impulses." EFTA00032531 --- PAGE BREAK --- • David Ignatius: "This is what a real Ira

s even as they braced for potential spinoff attacks from rising tensions between the United States and Iran. Steve Hendrix reports: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday beseeched citizens to take flood warnings as seriously as they do the sirens warning of imminent rocket fire that are a feature of life

take flood warnings as seriously as they do the sirens warning of imminent rocket fire that are a feature of life in many Israeli communities. ... Netanyahu also warned the adventurous not to venture out to the desert to witness the dramatic — and potentially dangerous — spectacle of dry stream beds rean