Via Robert Farley, Yossi Peled, an Israeli cabinet minister, proposes that Israel stop buying U.S. military equipment if the Obama administration continues to insist on a settlement freeze and negotiations with Iran. The Jerusalem Post reports that Peled wrote his cabinet colleagues an 11-page letter lamenting President Obama’s More…
Here’s how you know Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left a bad first impression with the Obama administration. Asked in an ABC News interview yesterday about reports that his allies floated saying that the Bush administration had secretly promised Israel that it could expand settlement construction in the More…
The Netanyahu government in Israel is claiming that the Bush administration had a secret deal with Netanyahu’s predecessors to allow Israel to continue settlement construction in the West Bank, despite the fact that the 2003-era road map for Israeli-Palestinian peace explicitly “freezes all settlement activity.” Some Bush-era officials More…
In advance of President Obama’s long-awaited address to the Muslim world in Cairo on Thursday, the administration appears to be seeding the public-diplomacy bed. I can’t read Arabic, but my friend Marc Lynch can, and here’s how Marc puts it in the course of a longer (and quite valuable) More…
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