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...time since the two countries severed diplomatic ties with the birth of the Islamic republic in 1979. Obama's foreign policy team views Tehran as both the source of and a possible solution to most of America's problems in the Middle East--from militants in Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza to what Washington believes is Tehran's secret nuclear-weapons program. At his first presidential press conference, Obama said that over many years, Iran's actions had been "unhelpful when it comes to promoting peace and prosperity." His national security team, however, was "looking at areas where we can have...
...Gaza Voices...
...plaintive "Voices from the Rubble" are clearly symptomatic of denial by the Gaza residents of their own culpability for civilian deaths. Gazans elected Hamas and enthusiastically supported and lauded the relentless bombardment of traumatized and beleaguered Israeli civilians by tens of thousands of deliberately targeted rockets and mortars. It is surely time for Gazans, and in fact all Palestinians, to internalize that actions have consequences and Israel has practiced unwarranted restraint in the face of the deadly provocation it could no longer ignore. Fay Dicker, LAKEWOOD...
...people. “The Israeli people have not known a single day of peace, and the Palestinian people have not seen a single day of justice,” he said. Khalidi acknowledged the gravity of the situation, especially in light of the recent escalation in violence in Gaza, but said that he remained cautiously optimistic. “I actually think there is a glimmer of a possibility to break this gridlock,” said Khalidi. For Feldman, an important component of achieving peace is convincing Hamas to adopt nonviolent means. “There...
...none of the winners really won, the loser - the Israeli left - clearly lost. The traditional liberal parties, Labor and Meretz, were decimated. Their supporters fled to the moderate Livni in the hope of thwarting a Netanyahu victory. After the war in Gaza, the peace movement seemed pointless: the Palestinians were shattered, unable to govern themselves, much less negotiate a peace. It was telling that the best-known figure on the Israeli left was Labor's Ehud Barak, the man who had planned and executed...