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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

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n 10,000 civilians, but a prime strategic interest of Israel and the United States. So why are both the Obama administration and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu unethusiastic — to say the least — about even indirect military intervention to topple Assad? In part it's because of worry about what would follow

tlingly generous offer a falling Olmert made in late 2008, nothing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can offer will elicit a yes. This would leave Netanyahu facing two alternatives: continue economic and institutional development in the West Bank without talks, or undertake a Sharon/Olmert/Mofaz move in

scientist. Early Presidents argued on behalf of their policies with appeals to the Constitution rather than to the people. Even Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, who asked for sweeping new executive powers, did so with strictly constitutional arguments rather than with populist ones. The concept of a manda

Rcmnick September 3, 2012 -- Earlier this month, the liberal Israeli novelist David Grossman published an op-ed in Haaretz decrying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fevered declarations that he might soon order a unilateral strike on Iran and its nuclear facilities. Since early last year, Israelis have witnesse

uclear facilities. Since early last year, Israelis have witnessed a dissidence of a variety almost unknown since the founding of the state. Even as Netanyahu and his Defense Minister, Ehud EFTA00713352 Barak, routinely speak of an imminent "existential threat" from Teheran, comparable to that of the Na

s of biting sarcasm and comical caricatures. The average citizen would never consent to being treated this way, yet the public official must do so. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), former president of the United States, gave expression to this sentiment when one of his cabinet secretaries came to him complaining

tern Gaza • Stampede at Religious Gathering in India Kills More Than 100 • U.K. Nurse Lucy Letby Convicted of Attempted Murder in Retrial • Biden, Netanyahu Expected to Meet in Washington During Israeli PM's July Visit • U.S. Sends a Plane of Chinese Migrants to China • German Court Fines Far-Right Poli

at Florida Auction House The Washington Post (07/02, Edwards) reported that on Thursday, officials returned a pocket watch engraved with President Theodore Roosevelt's name to Roosevelt's family home at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, N.Y., on Long Island. The article stated that Sagamore had

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

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

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.