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...Halloween night in Jerusalem, and Benjamin Netanyahu came dressed as a peacemaker. "We're prepared to start peace talks immediately," the notoriously reluctant Israeli Prime Minister proclaimed, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton standing at his side, poker-faced. "I think we should ... get on it and get with...
...disputed June 12 elections, with an opposition rally timed to coincide with the yearly commemoration of the assassination of an important revolutionary leader in June 1981. Several weeks later in September, an even larger crowd dressed in green and numbering in the tens of thousands effectively hijacked the annual Jerusalem Day rallies held across the country. Shouts of "Death to Israel" were replaced by a chorus of "Not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life only for Iran!" and "Death to Russia," the latter slogan the consequence of Moscow's early acceptance of the presidential election results...
...Netanyahu's side last weekend, pressing the Palestinians to drop the precondition for talking. But the Palestinians point out that they weren't the only ones raising the issue: the Obama Administration, too, had issued an unambiguous demand that Israel halt all construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in line with the 2002 road...
...House to both sides over the past week has emphasized the urgency of doing that. Unfortunately, given the gulf between the demands and expectations of Israelis and Palestinians, that sense of urgency about getting back around a table may be felt more keenly in Washington than it is in Jerusalem or Ramallah...