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Recommended Readings: July 2009 Archives

A shared Jerusalem

By APN on July 30, 2009 3:56 PM
By James Carroll
The Boston Globe

GEORGE MITCHELL is in the Middle East, pressing for peace. His planned itinerary brackets Israel and Palestine with a start in Abu Dhabi and Syria and a conclusion in Bahrain and Egypt. The Obama administration's determination to revivify the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is further indicated by the arrivals in the region next week of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, National Security Adviser James Jones, and special Middle East adviser Dennis Ross. President Obama has replaced the Bush policy of hands-off with a gloves-off readiness to push all parties hard.

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On Obama and Israel, Rage Without Reason

By APN on July 30, 2009 3:52 PM
Good Fences
By J.J. Goldberg
Published July 29, 2009, issue of August 07, 2009

Alarm bells have been ringing around the neighborhood pretty much nonstop since July 13, when President Obama sat down to talk Middle East policy at the White House with a pack of leaders from a dozen American Jewish organizations.



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Obama means what he says

By APN on July 30, 2009 2:39 PM

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By DEBRA DELEE, APN President & CEO 

Opiniom.jpost.com


Israeli leaders say they're bewildered by the Obama administration's "obsession" with West Bank settlement growth. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was recently quoted asking/grumbling, "What do they want from me?" His aides told reporters and American Jewish leaders that Washington's position on settlements is "childish," "stupid" and "delusional" and that the Obama team should "come to its senses.

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Jerusalem Post: "Wexler: Israel will freeze settlements"

By admin on July 6, 2009 6:05 PM
Jul. 1, 2009
Herb Keinon , THE JERUSALEM POST

Israel would lose nothing, and potentially gain everything, by agreeing to a temporary moratorium on construction in the settlements for a short period of time, Congressman Robert Wexler, a close political ally of US President Barack Obama and a stalwart Israel supporter, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
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