Lebanon's voters gave the White House the victory it wanted -- with a lot of help from Hezbollah.
By Juan Cole Jun 10, 2009
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The Prime Minister says Hamas is guilty for denying Red Cross access to prisoners: exactly what the U.S. did.
By Glenn Greenwald
October 24, 2009
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Given the similarities between Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad, the two countries could be on a collision course.
By Erich Follath
June 23, 2009
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The new Netanyahu government couldn't move against Tehran without approval from Washington -- but any mixed messages from the Obama administration could lead to catastrophe.
By Roane Carey
April 14, 2009
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To the chagrin of Arabs, Americans and Europeans, Avigdor Lieberman wants to be Israel's next foreign minister. To allay their concerns, he is doing his best to shed his reputation as a virulent racist.
By Christoph Schult
March 26, 2009
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Are Israeli politicians increasingly beholden to conservative Americans who lavish them with financial support and political pressure?
By Gregory Levey
August 21, 2008
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Together, an enigmatic billionaire and a resurgent Bibi Netanyahu could put Israel on the war path. Dick Cheney, AIPAC and Iran are all watching closely.
By Gregory Levey
October 9, 2007
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By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.
By Sidney Blumenthal
August 3, 2006
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How a Jewish kid from the Bronx went from swimming naked with Allen Ginsberg to spewing the ugliest bile on talk radio.
By David Gilson
March 5, 2003
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Israel is throwing the book at Netanyahu's refusenik kin, as the number of young people evading military service continues to rise.
By Michelle Goldberg
February 28, 2003
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Initial reports said Palestinian gunmen brazenly fired on Jewish worshipers in Hebron. The reports were wrong -- but the U.S. media has yet to correct them.
By Eric Boehlert
November 19, 2002
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If the Bush administration is serious about brokering a Mideast peace, it has to reject Israeli -- as well as Palestinian -- extremists.
By Muqtedar Khan
May 14, 2002
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Arafat allies cower as Ariel Sharon's army storms Ramallah's "presidential compound," and the U.S. sends mixed messages about the escalation.
By Ferry Biedermann
March 30, 2002
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In stepping down, Israel's prime minister is trying to make an end run around his strongest political rival.
By David Tuller
December 12, 2000
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Ultra-Orthodox men harass praying women as Barak tries to assemble a government.
By Samuel G. Freedman
May 21, 1999
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Experts discuss Ehud Barak's sweeping victory.
By Daryl Lindsey
May 19, 1999
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At the site of a tragic assassination, Barak supporters celebrate a return to the peace process
By Flore de Preneuf
May 18, 1999
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One town's shift shows why Israelis voted for change.
By Flore de Preneuf
May 18, 1999
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Clinton's three-day visit to the Middle East was full of symbols and photo ops, but precious little in the way of content.
By Daryl Lindsey
December 16, 1998
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A conversation with Jonathan Pollard: Betrayed by Gingrich and Netanyahu, the convicted spy for Israel blasts the politics behind his latest failed hope for clemency.
By Walter Ruby
November 30, 1998
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Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to subsidize travel to Israel for American Jews can't work.
By Samuel G. Freedman
November 23, 1998
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Aided by a dying King Hussein, Israel's Netanyahu brings Israel back to where it was in the peace negotiations 18 months ago.
By Daryl Lindsey
October 23, 1998
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In one sign of the cost of to the Lewinsky scandal, Clinton has caved into the Israeli government and abandoned the peace process in the Middle East
By Jonathan Broder
July 28, 1998
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Clinton's disintegrating foreign policy should be of much more concern to the White House -- and the country -- than Kenneth Starr's latest chess moves.
By Jonathan Broder
June 1, 1998
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Over the next two weeks, President Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo a very public battle of wills over the future of Middle East peace.
By Jonathan Broder
May 12, 1998
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Will Israel attack Iran?
Israel's pragmatic thug
Pushing right-wing American politics -- in Israel
Israel's rising right wing
The neocons' next war
Michael Savage's long, strange trip
Hell no, Bibi's nephew won't go
Manufacturing a massacre
"I'm under fire!"
Barak's surprise move
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