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John Kearney writes: Did you see the news item noting that Netanyahu is giving Obama a copy of Mark Twain’s travelogue to the Levant from Innocents Abroad? This may seem a peripheral news item, but it isn’t — not in…

John Kearney writes: Did you see the news item noting that Netanyahu is giving Obama a copy of Mark Twain’s travelogue to the Levant from Innocents Abroad? This may seem a peripheral news item, but it isn’t — not in…

From the Associated Press: A senior aide to Netanyahu, national security adviser Uzi Arad, suggested the Israeli leader might not yield to pressure from Obama for a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict. He also seemed to hint that…

From Haaretz: Israel has begun constructing a new settlement in the northern West Bank for the first time in 26 years, Army Radio reported. The move comes on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meeting with U.S. President…

From Haaretz: Israel has begun constructing a new settlement in the northern West Bank for the first time in 26 years, Army Radio reported. The move comes on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meeting with U.S. President…

Here is a nice piece in Haaretz showing how the Shalem Center, a thinktank whose pigeons are now reroosting in the Netanyahu administration, including Michael Oren and Ron Dermer, was heavily funded by neoconservatives so as to keep bad ideas…

Tony Karon: Netanyahu has embraced an extreme view that obliges the U.S., in particular, to restrain him, and prevent him from initiating hostilities that have far-reaching tragic consequences, not least for Israel. To the extent that Netanyahu is truly caught…