San Francisco Chronicle | Obama Plans Visit to Israel This Spring New York Times By making Israel a stop on the first overseas trip of his second term, Mr. Obama hopes to demonstrate support for the Jewish state despite doubts among some of its backers. But the trip also seems designed to signal a new start in a fraught ... Obama to visit Israel in first trip as president Obama to Visit Israel, West Bank In Spring Obama to visit Israel for first time as president |
Daily Beast | An Israel Debate, on Campus and Off New York Times Nothing characterizes Israel more than the lively and vigorous debate regarding anything and everything. This debate is not limited to Israel alone, but spreads far beyond its borders. Israel never shies away from it, as this is its truly democratic ... When Defending Israel Means Suppressing Academic Freedom, Israel Loses Brooklyn College peace talks over controversial anti- Israel forum called off NY college will offer other views on Israel |
ABC News | Obama to make first trip to Israel, part of a potential 'new beginning' with ... Washington Post President Obama will travel to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories next month to make an early second-term push for peace negotiations between two divided governments and to assess the broader political developments remaking the Middle East. Israel's Netanyahu Hits Snags in... Israel: Can't Find PA Incitement? Here It Is Sharing Land for Peace: Revisiting Israel-Palestine's Confederate Future |
MiamiHerald.com | Israel seen unlikely to respond militarily after Bulgaria implicates Hezbollah ... Fox News JERUSALEM – Israel on Tuesday welcomed a Bulgarian report implicating Hezbollah in the deaths of five Israelis in a bus bombing last summer, signaling that it will use the findings to focus on a diplomatic battle rather than military retaliation ... Alleged Hezbollah Attacks on Israel... US, Israel pressure EU over Hezbollah after Bulgaria says group behind bus attack Israel urges world leaders to declare Hizbollah a terrorist group |
NPR (blog) | VIDEO: In Israel, City Paints Car Into Handicap Spot, Then Tows It NPR (blog) There is plenty of unfairness in life. But today, an Israeli woman is getting some justice after the city of Tel Aviv tried to pull a fast one. In a video Hila Ben Baruch posted on Facebook Monday, Tel Aviv municipal workers are seen painting the ... |
Daily Beast | How The Pro-Israel Right Lost On Hagel Daily Beast This much is certain: the fight over Hagel was dominated by issues revolving around Israel. In the confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee—which Hagel, at times, fumbled through—Jim Lobe counted up 178 mentions of Israel, more ... Senator Hagel, Senator Graham, and the Israel Lobby |
The Perils of Obama's Israel Visit Daily Beast Perhaps most problematic of all, the PA will turn a visit into a minefield for Obama, designing every detail to make it seem the president is visiting (and acknowledging) an independent Palestine. There will be the flag, the honor guard, the playing of ... |
Obama Plans First Trip to Israel as President This Year Bloomberg Obama Plans First Trip to Israel as President This Year. By Julianna Goldman - 2013-02-05T23:45:34Z. Since hotelier Tobias Zurbriggen can remember, the business of running Saas-Fee has been a local affair. Now, the Swiss ski resort neighboring the ... |
Obama to visit Israel in first visit as president MiamiHerald.com Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the visit to Israel by phone in late January, when Obama congratulated Netanyahu on his success in Israel's recent election. The White House has not released the date of Obama's trip or ... |
Haaretz | Argentine foreign minister accuses Israel of giving 'ammunition to anti ... Haaretz Hector Timmerman's remarks were made during a dressing down of Israel's envoy Dorit Shavit, after Israel tried to get explanation about the Argentina-Iran agreement to create a 'truth commission' to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish ... |