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July 2008
- Obama Prays at Wailing Wall
  
  newser | Reuters | 11 hours, 3 minutes ago
  
  Barack Obama finished his Israel trip with a pre-dawn visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall this morning, Reuters reports. The candidate, wearing a skullcap, placed a prayer he had written in the wall as a rabbi read from a psalm. A heckler shouted "Jerusalem is not for sale"—but was drowned out by chants of "O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Israel • foreign policy • Berlin • Jerusalem
- Obama Visits Sderot, Meets Olmert, Abbas
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 23, 08 12:45 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama waded into the thicket of Mideast politics today, siting down with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and visiting Sderot, an Israeli city near the Gaza border that's a frequent target of rocket attacks. If Iran were to obtain nuclear weapons, Obama said at a press conference, it would mark a "game-changing situation not only in the Middle East but around the world," he said. "America must always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself against those who threaten its people." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • election 2008 • Iran • Israel • Ehud Olmert • Mahmoud Abbas • nuclear
- Obama Appears Cocky, Presidential
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 23, 08 12:19 PM CDT
  
  The better Barack Obama’s foreign excursion goes, the more nervous Republicans get, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times. Images of John McCain happily sharing a golf cart with Bush 41 don’t contrast well with images of Obama happily sharing a helicopter with David Petraeus. But there is also an element of arrogance in the trip. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • Israel • Iraq exit strategy • foreign policy • Jordan • media bias • American media
- Obama Meets With Israeli Leaders
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 23, 08 7:10 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama got an early start in Israel today, breakfasting with Ehud Barack and meeting Shimon Peres and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu before a stop at Yad Vashem, to lay a wreath at the Holocaust memorial, the New York Times reports. Peres greeted him warmly, saying he hoped for a “great president of the United States. That is the greatest promise for us and the rest of the world.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Israel • foreign policy
- Next, Thicket of Arab-Israeli Conflict Awaits Obama
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 22, 08 1:27 PM CDT
  
  With the war leg of his foreign tour behind him, Barack Obama must next navigate the Middle East peace process. He’ll meet with top Israeli and Palestinian leaders tomorrow, the New York Times reports, and will visit the rocket-bombarded town of Sderot. US Jewish voters will be particularly attentive after the Democrat’s recent slip over the status of Jerusalem. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Israel • Palestine • Middle East • Ehud Olmert • Mahmoud Abbas • Jerusalem
- Obama Meets With Jordan King
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 22, 08 12:07 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama sat down tonight for a meeting and dinner with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, a leader much like the Democratic candidate (both are 46) in being seen as crossing age and societal gaps, USA Today reports. Abdullah’s Jordan is the most Western-friendly of Arab countries, but is in perhaps the tightest geographical spot—sandwiched between Israel, Palestine, and Iraq. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • Iran • Israel • Palestine • King Abdullah II
- 2nd Bulldozer Goes on Rampage in Jerusalem
  
  newser | Haaretz | Jul 22, 08 7:52 AM CDT
  
  A Palestinian bulldozer driver wreaked havoc in downtown Jerusalem today, injuring at least 16 people, one critically, before being gunned down, Haaretz reports. It was a copycat attack, coming just weeks after a similar bulldozer rampage killed three in the Holy City. Police said a civilian saw the bulldozer leave its construction site, and started shooting when it began overturning cars. Police soon joined the fray and gunned the driver down. More »
  
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  Israel • Israel and Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • Jerusalem • terror attacks • bulldozer
- Dear Obama: Oppose Iran and We'll Love You
  
  newser | New Republic | Jul 21, 08 8:58 PM CDT
  
  On the eve of Barack Obama’s visit to Israel, Yossi Klein Halevi writes to him in the New Republic about Israel's fears. Like many nations, Israel is well-inclined towards Obama: It has no fear of his Muslim middle name and recently hailed his description of Israeli security as "sacrosanct." Yet Israelis worry that as president, Obama would fail to deter Iran’s nuclear ambitions. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iran • Israel • Israel and Palestinians • nuclear weapons • foreign policy • US foreign policy • nuclear arsenal
- Israeli Soldier Shoots Prisoner on Tape
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jul 21, 08 9:59 AM CDT
  
  An Israeli soldier was arrested today after a human rights group released a tape showing him shooting a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian protester with a rubber bullet, YNetNews reports. The Israeli Defense Force questioned the man shortly after the incident, which was reported by an officer at the scene, but only launched a criminal investigation after the human rights group sent them the videotape. More »
  
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  Israel • protests • Israel and Palestinians • West Bank • Palestinians • videotape • human rights activists • Israeli Army
- Barack: Don't Tell Europe What It Wants to Hear
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 21, 08 7:51 AM CDT
  
  The vast majority of Europeans are hoping Barack Obama will be elected president, according to polls that give him as much as 86% support among voters in France, Britain, and Germany. The overwhelming support reflects a hope for a new era of unity with the US, writes Roger Cohen in the New York Times . But Obama mustn't succumb to the temptation, Cohen warns, to ofter more than he can deliver. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • Israel • Nicolas Sarkozy • Germany • Europe • Syria • European allies
- Obama Camp Spills Some Details on Foreign Trip
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 18, 08 5:50 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama’s team released a few details about their candidate's trip abroad today, but the time frame remains tightly under wraps. Israel in particular presents a maze of meetings for the Democrat, who’ll see not only president Shimon Peres, but scandal-plagued prime minister Ehud Olmert and three potential replacements. Obama will also meet with the Palestinian president and prime minister, USA Today reports. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • Israel • Ehud Olmert • Mahmoud Abbas • Shimon Peres • Brandenburg Gate
- Freed Militants Vow to Continue Fight With Israel
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 17, 08 2:30 PM CDT
  
  A day after being freed in a prisoner exchange, Hezbollah fighters vowed to continue to fight Israel as they prayed at the grave of a fallen commander, the AP reports. “At this moment, I am yearning more than before to confront them,” Samir Qantar, who had been jailed in Israel for almost 30 years, said at a cemetery near Beirut. More »
  
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  Israel • Lebanon • Hezbollah • Beirut • Mideast peace talks • corpse • prisoner exchange • Samir Qantar
- Israel Releases 5 Prisoners, 200 Bodies in Hezbollah Deal
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 16, 08 11:39 AM CDT
  
  Israel released five Lebanese prisoners and nearly 200 bodies today, the New York Times reports, completing a deal with Hezbollah that netted the Jewish state the bodies of two of its captured soldiers. The most notable prisoner was Samir Kuntar, who had spent more than three decades in Israeli prison for murdering a 4-year-old girl. He was 16 at the time. More »
  
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  Israel • Lebanon • Hezbollah • Lebanon War • Israeli prisoner release • prisoner exchange
- Hezbollah Returns Bodies of 2 Israeli Soldiers
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 16, 08 4:53 AM CDT
  
  Hezbollah handed over the corpses of two slain Israeli soldiers in an exchange at the Lebanon-Israel border this morning, Reuters reports. The soldiers' capture sparked the 2006 war that killed 1,200 in Lebanon and 159 Israelis. Once the remains are identified, Israel will free five Lebanese prisoners, including one serving a life sentence for killing a 4-year-old girl and her family. More »
  
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  Israel • Lebanon • Hezbollah • Lebanon War • Shimon Peres • Israeli prisoner release • prisoner exchange
- Obama: Goof on 'Undivided' Jerusalem
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 14, 08 4:35 PM CDT
  
  Amid continuing controversy over his comment that Jerusalem “must remain” the undivided capital of Israel, Barack Obama clarified his words, calling them “poor phrasing,” Reuters reports. “The point we were simply making is that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem,” he said on CNN. Though the US officially recognized the city as Israel’s capital in 1995, it remains the subject of international disagreement. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Israel • Palestine • Arab Israeli conflict • Jerusalem
- Obama to Meet With Abbas During Mideast Swing
  
  newser | CNN | Jul 14, 08 2:53 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama will visit Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank next week, a top Palestinian official said today. The Ramallah meeting with the president of the Palestinian Authority will happen on July 23, CNN reports. Details on the international trip have been guarded, but the Times of London says Obama will touch down in London this Friday, continue to Israel, Jordan, Afghanistan and Iraq—and finish in France and Germany on the 24th and 25th. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • Israel • Afghanistan • France • Germany • London • Mahmoud Abbas • West Bank • Jordan • Chuck Hagel • Jack Reed
- New Mediterranean Union Eyes Mideast Peace
  
  newser | AFP | Jul 14, 08 7:15 AM CDT
  
  The inaugural meeting yesterday of the Union of the Mediterranean, which brought together the 27 EU countries and their neighbors to the south, kicked off discussions about a number of mutual projects. But French President Nicolas Sarkozy used it as an opportunity to flex some diplomatic muscle by bringing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad out of isolation and by hosting a sit-down between Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. More »
  
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  Israel • France • Nicolas Sarkozy • Ehud Olmert • Syria • Lebanon • Egypt • Arab Israeli conflict • Hosni Mubarak
- Israel to US: Iran Threat Bigger Than You Think
  
  newser | Jerusalem Post (Israel) | Jul 11, 08 9:11 AM CDT
  
  In the wake of Iranian missile tests, Israel’s defense minister will visit the US for talks next week to press the case that Tehran poses a serious nuclear threat, the Jerusalem Post reports. Yesterday, Ehud Barak suggested that Israel is ready to attack. "We have proven in the past that we are not deterred from acting when our vital interests are at stake." More »
  
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  Iran • Israel • Dick Cheney • Robert Gates • nuclear weapons • Ehud Barak
- Iran Tests More Missiles as US Vows to Protect Allies, Interests
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 10, 08 6:31 AM CDT
  
  Iran claimed to have test fired more missiles today, a day after it launched nine missiles that pushed up oil prices and further stoked concerns that a regional conflict was brewing, reports Reuters. The "maneuver brings power to the Islamic Republic of Iran and is a lesson for enemies," said the Revolutionary Guards chief. Iran has said it will retaliate against Tel Aviv and US interests if attacked. More »
  
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  Iran • Israel • Persian Gulf • shipping • ballistic missile program
- Stocks Surge on Oil, Fed News
  
  newser | MarketWatch | Jul 8, 08 3:38 PM CDT
  
  The markets made strong gains today as crude futures fell more than $5 and the Fed took steps to shore up the housing market, MarketWatch reports. The Dow gained 152.25 points, its biggest jump in a month, to close at 11,384.21. The Nasdaq rose 51.10 points to 2,294.42, and the S&P 500 rose 21.39 points to 1,273.70. More »
  
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  Iran • Israel • S&P 500 • Nasdaq • oil price • Dow Jones Industrial Average • Ben Bernanke

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