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...event, which was sponsored by the pro-Israel organization J Street, speakers promoted grassroots peace activism and the importance of the commonalities among all people...
Council members shouted demands for the names of sources and locations. They expressed indignation at the mention of pro-Israel Bedouin and the report that some Bedouin even cheered for Algeria (Egypt's fiercest soccer rival) during the final round of the African Cup of Nations. Several council members launched into wider diatribes about U.S. policy in the Middle East and Israeli conspiracies in the Sinai. But most of all, they wanted the reporter to apologize for tarnishing Sinai's name. "You interviewed smugglers. And those people are outlaws," said a council member, Abdel Hamid Salem. "President Mubarak...
...majority of Israelis oppose halting the construction of housing in East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in 1967; many right-wing members of Netanyahu's coalition believe Israel should never give back any parts of the Holy City to the Palestinians. The hawks view Netanyahu's agreeing even to a 10-month partial moratorium on new settlement activity in the West Bank as a needless sellout to Obama, one of the least popular American Presidents in recent memory among Israelis. With an address to Washington's pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee looming, Netanyahu wasn't about to cave again...
...state solution. While a broad array of Israelis are either totally against dividing Jerusalem or want to expand Israeli settlements ahead of any peace deal, no country in the world - including the U.S. - recognizes East Jerusalem as Israeli territory. (Even George W. Bush, America's most ardently pro-Israel President, refrained from moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.) This disagreement between friends wasn't a big deal as long as there was an Israeli government committed to achieving peace based on the 1967 borders, or a U.S. Administration - like Bush's - that wasn't. But as long...
...Speaking at a pro-Israel think tank in Washington last May, Dayton had warned that the discipline of his troops could fall apart if there was no headway in peace talks. "With big expectations, come big risks," Dayton said. "There is perhaps a two-year shelf life on being told that you're creating a state, when...