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  • ** FILE ** Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 28, 2011.

    Palestinian officials say Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad has resigned

    Palestinian officials say Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad has resigned.


  • ** FILE ** In this June 28, 2011, file photo, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian officials said Thursday, April 11, 2013, that Fayyad offered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas as part of an increasingly bitter conflict over authority. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

    Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad offers resignation amid tensions with president

    Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has tendered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas.


  • U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry is pictured before a meeting at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in central London on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Stansall, Pool)

    John Kerry wraps overseas travels with win: Case of beer

    Secretary of State John Kerry may not be returning to U.S. soil with a new Middle East peace deal, or a diplomatic solution to how America might best deal with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's reported resignation – which leaves in charge the less friendly President Mahmoud Abbas. And the question of Iran's nuclear program still hovers.


  • Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) and U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry shake hands before a meeting in Istanbul on Sunday, April 7, 2013. Mr. Kerry will coordinate with Mr. Erdogan and other Turkish officials on efforts to halt the violence in neighboring Syria's civil war. (AP Photo/Kayhan Ozer, Turkish Prime Minister's Press Office)

    Secretary of State John Kerry seeks speedy fix for Turkish-Israeli ties

    U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry urged Turkish leaders Sunday to speedily restore full diplomatic relations with Israel, two American allies the U.S. sees as anchors of stability in a Middle East wracked by Syria's civil war, Arab Spring political upheavals and the potential threat posed by Iran's nuclear program.


  • Palestinian students chant slogans during a protest in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, April 4, 2013, after 64-year-old Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, who was serving a life sentence for a 2002 foiled bombing of a busy Jerusalem cafe, died of cancer in an Israeli prison. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

    Thousands of Palestinians protest in West Bank; rocket hits Israel

    Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the West Bank in a show of outrage Thursday over the deaths of two Palestinian protesters killed in clashes with Israel and a third Palestinian who died of cancer in an Israeli prison. In Gaza, militants fired a rocket that landed in southern Israel, causing no casualties.


  • Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    PIPES: Obama to Palestinians: Accept the Jewish state

    One key shift in U.S. policy was overlooked in the barrage of news about President Obama's eventful 50-hour visit to Israel last week. That would be the demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state, called by Hamas leader Salah Bardawil "the most dangerous statement by an American president regarding the Palestinian issue."


  • President Barack Obama waves as he steps off Air Force One upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

    EDITORIAL: The wrong message

    Symbolism matters, and President Obama knows it. When the president spoke at Georgetown University in 2009, his advance team asked that the Roman Catholic university cover an image derived from the first three Greek letters of the name of Jesus Christ.


  • President Obama speaks during in a joint news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Muqata Presidential Compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah on March 21, 2013. (Associated Press)

    EDITORIAL: Nice hat, but where's the cattle?

    Israel is a land of symbols. It's fitting then that President Obama's arrival in the Holy Land on Wednesday was bedeviled by a breakdown. The wrong fuel for the president's limousine (diesel instead of gasoline) was quickly remedied, but four years of U.S. policies that have fueled turmoil in the region won't be fixed so easily.


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    PRUDEN: The late education of Barack Obama

    A late education is better than no education at all, even for a president of the United States. The man who is a mighty legend in his own mind is even showing a little humility. Barack Obama, who usually finds someone else — usually George W. — to blame for every little thing that goes awry, finally admitted this week in Israel that even a synthetic messiah can make mistakes.


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