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    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.


  • 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)

    Obama urges Palestinians, Israeli students to 'think anew'

    In separate talks before West Bank Palestinians and Israeli college students that carried echoes of Abraham Lincoln's call to "think anew and act anew," President Obama urged both groups Thursday to abandon old ways of thinking and search for new means to reach peace while it was still possible.


  • U.S. President Barack Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands during their bilateral meeting at the Muqata Presidential Compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, March 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

    Obama heads into talks with Palestinian President Abbas

    President Obama arrived in Ramallah on Thursday morning for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting comes at a time when Palestinians are pushing Mr. Obama to ratchet up his involvement with peace talks.


  • U.S. President Barack Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speak to reporters during their joint news conference at the Muqata President Compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, March 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

    Obama condemns rocket attacks in Israel, meets with Abbas

    Meeting with Palestinians leaders in the West Bank, President Obama condemned an overnight rocket attack from Gaza.


  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Holocaust denier Abbas no partner for peace

    Dave Gordon's article, "Obama should use Israel trip to promote real peace" (Web, March 9), is excellent, calling on the president to make clear that demonizing our ally Israel is unacceptable. I would add one specific request: If President Obama truly wishes to promote peace, he must demand that Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas publicly repudiate his vile 1984 book "The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism."


  • Embassy Row: Iran buying time

    Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren accused Iran of deceiving the West by opening new talks about its suspected nuclear weapons program, as he addressed a major Jewish conference in Washington on Sunday.


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