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Archive for May 19th, 2011

Obama’s Speech: Not Cairo 2009

Posted in Barack Obama, Democracy, Peace Plans, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 19, 2011 | 10 Comments »

Barack Obama’s much-anticipated speech has now come and gone, and those of us who had very low expectations for it were not disappointed. There was nothing new, and much that was tired, familiar and demonstrably ineffective regarding Israel and the Palestinians, and a decidedly tepid response to the Arab Spring. Obama presented a distressingly familiar, [...]

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Bibi Insults Obama Again, Before He Even Gets Here

Posted in Barack Obama, Bibi Netanyahu, Jerusalem, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Today, the day of President Barack Obama’s long-anticipated “Middle East reboot” speech and one day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to meet with Obama, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office (PMO) took up discussionon two major East Jerusalem settlement expansion projects, in Pisgat Ze’ev and Har Homa. This is not coincidence, nor bureaucratic [...]

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