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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023517
26 May
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26 May, 2011 Article 1. The Washington Post Where Netanyahu fails himself and Israel Fareed Zakaria Article 2. NYT Parties See Obama’s Israel Policy as Wedge for 2012 Jackie Calmes and Helene Cooper Article 3. Foreign Policy Hey, Bibi: Calling Hamas the al Qaeda of Palestine isn't just wrong, it's stupid Daniel Byman Article 4. Bloomberg Why Palestinians Have Time on Their Side Jeffrey Goldberg Article 5. The Daily Beast The Palestinian Right to Dream Peter Beinart Article 6. Asharq Al-Awsat Hamas' Gaza strongman criticizes Khalid Meshal Article 7. Military Review An Old Man’s Thoughts on War and Peace Edward Bernard Glick Article 1. The Washington Post Where Netanyahu fails himself and Israel Fareed Zakaria May 26 -- Conventional wisdom is fast congealing in Washington that President Obama was wrong to demarcate a shift in American policy toward Israel last week. In fact, it was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who broke with the past — in one of a series of diversions and obstacles Netanyahu has come up with anytime he is pressed. He wins in the short run, but ultimately, he is turning himself into a version of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, “Mr. Nyet,” a man who will be bypassed by history. Here is what Netanyahu’s immediate predecessor, Ehud Olmert, said in a widely reported speech to the Israeli Knesset in 2008: “We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.” Olmert, a man with a reputation as a hard-liner, said that meant Israel would keep about 6 percent of the West Bank — the major settlements — and give up land elsewhere. This was also the position of Ehud Barak, Israel’s prime minister during the late 1990s. The Bush administration did not have a different position, as statements from the president and Condoleezza Rice make clear. Here is George W. Bu […]