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'U.S.-Israel relations at their worst in 35 years'
Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has told the country's diplomats there that U.S.-Israeli relations face their worst crisis in 35 years, despite attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office to project a sense of "business as usual""
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Comment / Road to Iran nuclear relief may pass through Brazil
BRASILIA - Clara Ant is perhaps the most surprising person in the inner circle of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who Monday begins the first visit to Israel by a Brazilian president. An architect and daughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, Ant is a former Trotskyite who speaks nearly fluent Hebrew and is charming and full of humor. She serves as Lula's close adviser. Adviser for what? "What not?" she responds with a laugh.
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Netanyahu's populist rhetoric is jeopardizing Israel
The Israeli prime minister apparently believed that by conducting two-track negotiations he could make things coalition-friendly: to both espouse the slogan "two states for two peoples" and sabotage the Palestinians' ability to set up their state; to both embrace Vice President Joe Biden and give the U.S. administration the finger; to both ask the administration to get Mahmoud Abbas back to the negotiating table and put thumbtacks on his seat once he's there.
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U.S. row shows Jerusalem is cornerstone of peace
Benjamin Netanyahu is absolutely right. Since 1967 no Israeli government stopped building in Jerusalem, east or west. Since the Eshkol government extended Israeli sovereignty over "Jordanian Jerusalem" and annexed the villages around the city, "United Jerusalem" became an inalienable part of the State of Israel. The prime minister is entitled to order the interior minister to delay the discussions at the Planning and Building Committee on the plans to expand a Jewish neighborhood beyond the Green Line. He can ask the mayor to delay presenting his ideas for changes at the Holy Basin. No Zionist prime minister will dare utter the words "I commit to freezing construction in Jerusalem."
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ADL chief: Flawed U.S. policy is undermining Mideast peace
Abraham Foxman has headed the Anti-Defamation League since the 1980s, serving often as an unofficial spokesman for the American Jewish community on issues of anti-Semitism and other affairs.
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Barak: East Jerusalem announcement was unnecessary, damaging
Obama aide Axelrod says approval of 1,600 new East Jerusalem homes seemed meant to thwart talks.
Israeli envoy to Poland deplores vandalism of Holocaust memorial
Israel's ambassador to Poland on Sunday deplored the desecration of a Holocaust memorial in southern Poland and criticized world leaders who
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Egypt nixes synagogue ceremony citing 'Israeli aggression'
Egypt has canceled the inauguration of a restored synagogue citing the Israeli oppression of Muslims in the occupied territories as well as excesses by Jews during an earlier ceremony at the synagogue.
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France FM: UN sanctions on Iran not likely before June
A United Nations resolution on new sanctions against Iran may not be ready until June and if a vote on it fails, European states could take unilateral measures instead, French and Finnish ministers said on Sunday.
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Pro-Palestinian groups urge H&M boycott after Israel branch opens
More than 24 European and Middle Eastern pro-Palestinian organizations on Thursday condemned the opening of H&M's flagship store in Israel and called to boycott the clothing chain's stores in Europe in response.
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Al-Jazeera airs unseen 1983 footage of abducted IDF soldiers
The Al-Jazeera news network on Thursday released footage of two Israel Defense Forces soldiers abducted by Palestinian militants during the first war in Lebanon. This is the first time the footage has ever been aired.
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Netanyahu must choose between ideology and U.S. support
A widely predicted crisis between Israel and the United States upon Benjamin Netanyahu taking office as prime minister finally erupted this weekend.
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Biden to Israelis: Mideast status quo unsustainable
Vice President says that Palestinians, Israelis must decide for themselves if they want peace.
To 120! The secret of Ashkenazi Jews who live past 100
Last week, Louis Biderman turned 99. Yet he can recall, in perfect detail, the trip he took to Los Angeles in 1938, 72 years ago.
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Obama's new nuclear age doesn't bode well for Israel
The custom is for every American president to put together a working paper that re-examines the government's stance on nuclear weapons. The document is in effect a summary of the main principles of the incoming administration's nuclear policy and a statement of the new president's intentions on the future of America's nuclear stockpile. Two presidents have produced such documents since the end of the Cold War: Bill Clinton in 1994 and George W. Bush in 2002. Now it's Barack Obama's turn to publish a statement that will set out his nuclear policy.
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Did Germany help Eichmann escape to Argentina?
BERLIN - Germany's Federal Court of Justice is set to decide whether to release 4,500 pages of classified documents relating to Adolf Eichmann's escape to Argentina and his subsequent capture by Israeli agents.
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Netanyahu: Probe events that led to row with U.S. over East Jerusalem
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said he would establish a committee to probe Israel's announcement this week that it would construct 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, which has since led to a diplomatic crisis with the United States.
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Netanyahu is trading Israeli security for right-wing ideology
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led Israel into a serious crisis in relations with the United States and to a collapse in peace talks with the Palestinians just when they were to be resumed.
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Jewish, Latino leaders forge alliances to fight bigotry in U.S.
When six teenagers allegedly beat a Guatemalan immigrant into a coma last July in a Boston suburb, a Jewish and Latino coalition called the attack hateful.
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