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Barack Obama

During the past week President Obama offered up a semi-detailed plan for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal before heading off to Ireland, where he visited the home of his great-great-great grandfather. “And I’ve come home," Obama told a crowd of 25,000, "to find the apostrophe that we lost somewhere along the way." If these lines leave […]

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The New York Jewish Week’s editor, Gary Rosenblatt, thinks that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu badly misplayed his response to last week’s President Obama’s Mideast policy speech. Rosenblatt argues that “Bibi should have responded positively to the speech instead of reinforcing his image that he rather than Abbas is the Mideast’s Mr. No.” Instead, Rosenblatt […]

President Obama gave an internationally televised speech yesterday outlining United States Middle East policy. The address was largely lauded by American Jewish institutions, but raised some eyebrows while addressing the future borders of a Palestinian state, especially from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in Washington today, and had responded that the pre-1967 lines […]

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