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Why the Obama administration caved on settlements

by Yaniv Reich on November 2, 2009

Would you like to know why it was the Obama administration moved from demanding an unconditional end to “all settlement activity” this May to the present spineless pandering to the Netanyahu government? Yoel Marcus from Haaretz, a man I cannot ever remember agreeing with previously, explains: The [US] president, meanwhile, has learned a thing or [...]

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The meaning of J Street

by Yaniv Reich on October 28, 2009

J Street is a fairly new “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobbying group in the US, which positions itself a notch or two to the left of AIPAC’s “all criticism of Israel is anti-semitic” line. This week, J Street held its first national conference in Washington, DC, which was very well-attended despite being boycotted by Michael Oren, Israel’s [...]

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