This was not a good week for the Obama administration's Middle East peace efforts. Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem last Saturday, Secretary Clinton seemed to be praising the distinctively partial limitations that Israel was willing to implement on settlement non-expansion. During the following days in Morocco and Cairo, she walked those remarks back, but the damage had been done.
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On U.S Middle East Policy and Amateurism | TPMCafe - 0 views
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On the positive side, I think the administration folks are themselves aware that this is not going swimmingly. The overall administration scorecard on Middle East peace is slipping into the red.
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My own preference would have been for option two, and indeed, the administration could reasonably be perceived to have laid the ground deftly for such a pivot. Unfortunately, they went for option three, and it all came crashing down around their feet this week.
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Jewish-Arab crime film captures tensions - 1 views
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Next year, the gritty tale about mafia-style murders will become the first Arabic language film to represent Israel at the Oscars.
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Impoverished Israeli Arabs shooting one another in the shadow of the gleaming towers of Tel Aviv is far from Israel's preferred international image.
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dark underside to the ideal of coexistence sometimes touted in mixed Jewish-Arab areas like Jaffa.
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gender israeli and palestinian cinema
Britain Cuts Some Arms Exports to Israel Over Conduct in Gaza War - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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Britain has revoked five licenses for arms exports to Israel after reviewing how British-provided equipment was used during Israel's three-week war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, officials from both nations said Monday.
It marks the only such action to date by a foreign government against Israel over the country's incursion into Gaza in December and January -
The British Embassy statement said "a small number" of export licenses had been suspended under rules forbidding arms exports "where there is a clear risk that arms will be used for external aggression or internal repression." It did not detail the types of equipment affected by the license revocations, and an embassy spokeswoman said that information could not be released.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Row over 'standard' Hebrew signs - 0 views
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I will not allow that on our signs. This government, and certainly this minister, will not allow anyone to turn Jewish Jerusalem to Palestinian al-Quds
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What's in a name?
Mustafa Barghouthi: Palestine's Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood - 0 views
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What Israel also knows, but is not saying public ally, is how much their recent actions will actually strengthen Hamas - whose message of resistance and revenge is being echoed by the angry and grieving.
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why is there a disclaimer at the top of this article?
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Netanyahu 'ready for peace talks' - 0 views
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Mr Abbas initiated the telephone call, which Mr Netanyahu's office described as "friendly and warm".
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The new Israeli leader has not publicly endorsed the creation of a fully independent Palestinian state - a fundamental demand of the Palestinians.
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During his campaign, he said he was willing to negotiate with the Palestinians but that it was premature to talk of statehood. Instead, he offered Palestinians "economic peace".
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Israel states that they are ready to hold peace talks with Palestine, although they will not offer Palestine statehood. Israel has offered "economic peace."
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I am very excited that the Middle East Studies program has been able to bring Waltz with Bashir to Carlisle. It will play for four nights at the Carlisle Theatre, a cool art deco relic. On the last evening, next Wednesday, I will moderate a panel discussion after the showing. Among the panelists will be someone who was serving in the Israeli army at the time of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon - the events remembered in the film - as well as someone who was protesting the war as a member of Peace Now. How cool is that?
