Israel
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Israel's Netanyahu criticized for spending $127,000 of public funds on airplane bed
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek alternate sleeping arrangements when traveling after receiving a sky-high bill for installing a customized bed on a recent flight to London, officials close to the Israeli leader said.
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Syria, Russia and the prospect of war in the Middle East
CommentShaffer interview May 7, 2013
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After Syria airstrikes, Israel returns to 'business as usual'
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Israel signaled a return to "business as usual" on Monday, a day after its aircraft struck targets in Syria for the second time in 48 hours in an unprecedented escalation of Israeli involvement in the Syrian civil war.
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Israeli warplanes strike Syria in escalation
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Israel rushed to beef up its rocket defenses on its northern border Sunday to shield against possible retaliation after carrying out two airstrikes in Syria over 48 hours - an unprecedented escalation of Israeli involvement in the Syrian civil war.
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Readying new Syria push, US feels out Russia again
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This renewed effort starts with Secretary of State John Kerry's trip to Moscow this coming week for talks with leaders in Russia, the Syrian government's most powerful international friend.
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Israel launches airstrike against target in Syria, US officials say
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U.S. officials say Israel has launched an airstrike into Syria, apparently targeting a suspected weapons site. They say it does not appear that a chemical weapons site was targeted.
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Israel claims "nightmare scenario" in Syria is coming true
CommentBrodsky interview April 29, 2013
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Lawmakers: Syria chemical weapons could menace US
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U.S. officials last week declared that the Syrian government probably had used chemical weapons twice in March, newly provocative acts in the 2-year civil war that has killed more than 70,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.
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President Obama urges Israelis to compromise
CommentBrodsky interview March 20, 2013
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Mr. Obama in Israel; SCOTUS Gay Marriage Preview; DC Council Special Election
Comment3/21/2013
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Obama interrupted by heckler in Israel (video)
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President Obama was interrupted by a heckler Thursday while making a speech at the Jerusalem International Convention Center.
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President Obama in the Middle East: Obama meets with Palestinian leaders
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President Barack Obama said Thursday he is not giving up on stalled peace talks in the Mideast but that continued Israeli settlement-building in West Bank is not advancing the cause.
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President Obama in Israel: President makes first Israel trip since taking office
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Calling the U.S. Israel's "greatest friend," President Barack Obama assured the Middle East ally of his administration's commitment to Israel's security while cautioning that the region's "winds of change bring both promise and peril."
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New Worries About N. Korea; Baker School Takeover; Obama Visits Israel; Pope Francis Delivers Homily
Comment3/319/2013
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President Obama Middle East trip: Obama to address unstable Middle East
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On his second trip to the Middle East as U.S. commander in chief, President Barack Obama this week will confront a political and strategic landscape nearly unrecognizable from the one he encountered on his first trip to the region shortly after assuming office in 2009.
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Israel marathon ends in man dead from heat stroke
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An Israeli medical official says a man in his 30s has died of a heat stroke suffered just after finishing a Tel Aviv marathon race.
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: New government to be formed
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After weeks of deadlock, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached an agreement with coalition partners on Thursday to form a new government that appears set to address pressing domestic issues while putting peacemaking with the Palestinians on the back burner.
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President Obama: Middle East peace breakthrough not the focus of Israel visit
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President Barack Obama is playing down expectations for a Mideast peace breakthrough during his upcoming trip to Israel, telling American Jewish leaders that he won't be carrying a "grand peace plan" when he arrives in the region later this month.
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