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Michael Rubin explains a little further his problem with my Obama-Bush-Middle East policy transition piece (here’s my earlier post.) He thinks I discount the emphasis that the tough-on-Iran crowd places on negotiations and diplomacy. I don’t think I do generally, or in the story I wrote earlier this week, but I’ll leave that one to […]

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The European Parliament postponed a decision this week about whether to upgrade its ties with Israel, ostensibly because of Israel’s recent actions on the West Bank. While Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was in Brussels urging European nations to change their "outdated" perception of the Jewish state, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad warned the E.U. […]

Today Israeli police and and military forces evicted some 250 Jewish settlers from a house in Hebron they had occupied illegally. The action was prompted by a High Court ruling that the government must act immediately to enforce the law. Settlers say the disputed house belongs to Jews, and that they have the documentation to […]

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