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Opinion: Could This Be the Map to Mideast Peace?

It's a cliche among foreign policy circles that everyone knows what an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement will look like. Now a Washington think tank with close connections to officials in both Israel and the United States has sketched out realistic borders for a new Palestinian state. On Thursday, the Washington...

Opinion: Time to Draw a Map For Mideast Peace

A difficult political year for President Barack Obama ended with a flourish, not a whimper, as he piled up bipartisan victories with the ratification of a new Strategic Arms ReductionTreaty with Russia, the tax cut agreement, the repeal of the discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays in the military. Now...

US Offers Israel Stealth Fighters in Exchange for Talks

(Nov. 15) -- The United States is hoping that 20 advanced stealth fighters will help persuade Israel to renew a 90-day freeze on building new settlements and bring the government there to the negotiation table with its Palestinian counterparts. The jets are reportedly part of a package of enticements made by Secretary of...

Mideast Impasse Eclipses Obama's Indonesia Trip

(Nov. 9) -- Chagrin at the Mideast peace process overshadowed joy at President Barack Obama's return to Indonesia, when a trip aimed in part at highlighting U.S. engagement with the Muslim world became a forum for criticizing Israeli construction plans for disputed East Jerusalem. At an appearance today with Indonesian...

Caterpillar Delays Bulldozer Shipments to Israel During Rachel Corrie Trial

(Oct. 26) -- Caterpillar, the Illinois-headquartered construction and farming equipment company, has said it will delay shipments of D9 bulldozers to Israel during the Rachel Corrie trial. Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist from Washington state, was killed by an Israeli Defense Forces soldier who ran over her while...

Background on Israeli settlements

An Israeli settlement is a Jewish civilian community built on land that was captured by Israel from Jordan, Egypt or Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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