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• Obama failed to back up tough talk in Middle East

  
  Jay Bookman — Authority: 551
  Back in May, the Obama administration set explicit conditions for a resumption of peace talks in the Middle East. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sternly laid them out: “He wants to see a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not ‘natural growth’ exceptions. We think it is in the ...
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• Call White House, Ask for Barack: The Line Is Disconnected

  
  JG, Caesarea — Authority: 123
  In a November 8, 2009 New York Times op-ed entitled, "Call White House, Ask for Barack", Thomas Friedman writes: "The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. . . . . Indeed, it’s time for us to dust off James Baker’s line: When you’re serious, give us a call: 202-456-1414. Ask for Barack. ...
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• Dispatch From Israel: Obama’s Hail Mary Pass?

  
  The New Ledger Features — Authority: 583
  [tweetmeme] A n article in today’s Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126594.html reports that the Netanyahu government is now struggling to deal with the possibility that the Palestinians may unilaterally declare statehood. In and of itself, this is not necessarily shocking. Yasser Arafat used much the ...
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• REMEMBERING YASSER ARAFAT ….. 5 YEARS LATER

  
  Desertpeace — Authority: 544
  As we approach the 5th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat, his widow Suha shares with us her last words to him on his deathbed….. ( Ben Heine © Cartoons ) What Arafat’s wife told him on his deathbed By Avi Issacharoff and Jack Khoury When Yasser Arafat was on his ...
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• Abbass big bluff

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 583
  By KHALED ABU TOAMEH Mahmoud Abbass decision to hold new presidential and parliamentary elections at the beginning of next year is seen by some of his aides as one of the strangest moves he has made since he was elected to succeed Yasser Arafat five years ago. These aides are now trying to ...
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• Rally Behind Palestines Abbas, Israels Best Hope

  
  Change.org's War and Peace Blog — Authority: 108
  Palestinian President Mahmoud "Abu Mazen" Abbas has reached the apex of his value to the Middle East peace process. He knows it and hes betting everything he has. By threatening to quit. This week Abbas, the moderate Fatah party candidate who succeeded Yassir Arafat as head of the Palestinian authority in 2004 and is ...
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• Budapest, The Berlin Wall, and Iran: What Obama Does Not Grasp

  
  The New Republic - the spine Feed — Authority: 123
  It is just about 30 years since the wall around Iran went up. And it is a few days away from fully 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down. The Berliner Mauer had been up for more than a quarter century, and its surface facing east, grim gray , was a metaphor for life in the German Democratic Republic. On its ...
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• Peres props his puppet

  
  Uncensored News from Israel — Authority: 146
  Israeli president pleaded with Abbas to stay in the office. Peres is Abbas’ longtime friend. He nurtured Abbas from a Tunis’s no one into the world’s prominent peacemaker. Before the Oslo, Peres established illegal conflicts with Abbas. His puddle Yossi Beilin negotiated with Abbas in Cairo Palestinian votes ...
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• The Latest Temper Tantum

  
  The Blog of Garnel Ironheart — Authority: 118
  Mahmood Abbas is the best current example of a spoiled brat that the international political scene can offer.  Coming from a rich cultural tradition of such behaviour, he has consistently attempted to manipulate the Israeli political scene through staunchly infantile techniques.  When Hussein Obama became president ...
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• Wereld dringt bij Abbas aan om zich toch weer kandidaat te stellen

  
  Israel & Palestijnen Nieuws Blog — Authority: 130
    Ondanks de vele kritiek die ik op hem heb, is het de vraag of Abbas vertrek het vredesproces vooruit helpt. Abbas was in zijn dubblespeak in ieder geval minder extreem dan Arafat, en martelaren krijgen voor zover ik weet onder zijn bestuur alleen morele, en geen financiële of materiale steun. Een president ...
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• The Palestinian Endgame Enters High Gear

  
  Jewlicious — Authority: 563
  I was going to call this piece “Abbas Plays Poker” but then Khaled Abu Toameh wrote a piece in the J Post called Abbas’s Big Bluff in which he argues that Abbas has called for Palestinian elections now with the knowledge that Hamas won’t participate. Khaled doesn’t quite make the point that this is a way ...
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• Hajj : Islam has no Racism

  
  Words of love.. words for love... — Authority: 116
  Islam – The Cure for Racism When he was in Makkah, Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) wrote a letter to his loyal assistants in Harlem… from his heart: America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. “Never have I ...
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• THE NEWS THAT ABBAS IS ABOUT TO STEP DOWN AS PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT

  
  CHUCKMAN'S OTHER CHOICE OF WORDS — Authority: 122
  POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTOS GLOBE AND MAIL It cannot come too soon. Abbas is a pathetic figure, representing a Palestinian version what in the United States used to be called a Stepn Fetchit, indeed there was a minor black comic actor who went by that name in early American films. He has never served ...
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• Love of the Land: Palestinian Affairs: Abbass big bluff

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 162
  Palestinian Affairs: Abbass big bluff Khaled Abu Toameh JPost 06 November 09 Mahmoud Abbass decision to hold new presidential and parliamentary elections at the beginning of next year is seen by some of his aides as one of the strangest moves he has made since he was elected to succeed Yasser Arafat five ...
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• RubinReports: The Joke that is Middle East Diplomacy: Egyptian Foreign Minister Wins a Great “Victory” by Totally Distorting Clinton’s Statement

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 162
  The Joke that is Middle East Diplomacy: Egyptian Foreign Minister Wins a Great “Victory” by Totally Distorting Clinton’s Statement [Please subscribe and see the realities that lie behind the headlines and bizarre fantasies by which the Middle East is usually defined and described.] By Barry Rubin You ...
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• News-A touching one.....

  
  GupShup Forums — Authority: 169
  A Brahmin Who Sent a Muslim for Haj ARAFAT, 30 December 2006 — The truth is indeed stranger than fiction. You hear this cliché and it remains a cliché till you run into a story that indeed gives you a pleasant jolt. Mahboob Hasan’s true story may seem to be an exception for those unfamiliar with the ...
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• What Rabin’s legacy means for the likes of Netanyahu and Obama

  
  GlobalComment — Authority: 533
  November 4th marked two key ceremonial activities in Israel – the anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, and the subsequent hand-wringing over his legacy. Rabin was killed 14 years ago by a religious Jew, Yigal Amir, who feared Rabin’s commitment to peace. Rabin was a former general serving his second ...
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• "Delivering" the West Bank.

  
  Middle East and Terrorism — Authority: 139
      by Khaled Abu Toameh Even if Israel were to freeze all construction in the West Bank settlements, this would not mean that peace would prevail in the Middle East the following day. Those who think that Palestinians would take to the ...
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• France urges Abbas to stay in office, pursue peace

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 583
  France on Friday urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to stay in office despite his recent announcement that he will not seek re-election. Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said he will travel to the Middle East in the coming days and would hold talks with Abbas, whose decision was seen in Paris as a ...
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• ‘Enough weapons for month of war with Israel’ - Israel seizes massive arms shipment bound for Hizbullah

  
  Jesus Lives! — Authority: 446
  From WND A ship seized by the Israeli navy near Cyprus today had been carrying enough weapons and munitions for the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group to fight Israel for at least one month, announced Rani Ben-Yehuda, the deputy commander of Israel’s navy. The cargo ship originated in Iran and was headed ...
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