The current government of Israel is digging deep to find excuses for opposing a freeze on settlements. Of course they do so in order to advance their drive to control all of the land of the West Bank , which many of them view as their biblical birthright of Judea and Samaria , as well as all of a hugely expanded Jerusalem .
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By Charles Quist-Adade
Allow me the singular honour to say Akwaba (Welcome) in advance of your historic visit to “Black Africa.” I ask for Providence’s guidance and wisdom and the protection and blessings of our ancestors. As you make this historic trip to the continent, I will like to make the following humble requests to you in a form of this open letter
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In his June 14 speech Israel ’s Prime Minister rejected the high ground of some of his conservative predecessors and once again chose to take the low route of his revisionist fathers.
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By Uri Savir, President of the Peres Center for Peace
The Middle East and the Muslim world are waiting anxiously for President Obama's address in Cairo to this region and to the Islamic world.
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The hawks must be very disappointed following the Netanyahu-Obama meeting. I understand and sympathize with the desire to stop nuclear proliferation, and especially to allow nuclear weapons in the dubious hands of Iran. However, it will not do for them to blame Obama for being naïve in delaying a confrontation with Iran.
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Night after night Canadians have been fascinated by revelations that our beloved Mounties, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, seem to have covered up for the taser killing of Polish citizen Robert Dziekanski by four of its officers.
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I hate the term "self hating Jew." Those who use it, employ the term to attempt to cut off all vigorous debate within the Jewish community. Designate Ms. X as one of that “gang” and you never have to confront her ideas. It is enough to apply the sobriquet and thus cast her beyond the pale of acceptability.
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Those who seek peace, understanding and good will in the Middle East are constantly confronted with actions which demonstrate a complete inability of some Israelis and Palestinians to transcend their narrow nationalisms. Two recent stories illustrate this.
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President Obama traveled to Turkey and took the opportunity of an address to the parliament, of that Muslim nation, to send a strong message to the new administration in Israel.
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We've all watched the cutting of foreign news budgets for so long that we've become almost numb to it. Another bureau cut here, another three correspondent posts dropped there -- drip, drip, drip -- the dwindling capacity of overseas news gathering is constant background noise. Or ever-increasing silence, perhaps. But now we've come to two situations that show us what the world will be like when there are no foreign correspondents left.
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