Yitzhak Rabin News
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President Barack Obama used his first official visit to Israel and the West Bank to build urgency for restarting peace talks and seek more patience on confronting Iran, often speaking past government leaders to harness public support.
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President Barack Obama said the U.S. will do whatever is necessary to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon and echoed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration that Israel has the right to “defend itself, by itself.”
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President Barack Obama arrived in Jerusalem today on a trip packed with cultural stops and hours of meetings to punctuate his message that the U.S. commitment to Israel is unwavering.
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It wasn’t Barack Obama’s doing -- at least not fully. The crowds in Paris and Berlin, and the Muslims in Cairo and Karachi, eager to be done with President George W. Bush, took the new standard-bearer of American power as one of their own, a cosmopolitan man keen to break with the embattled certitude of the Bush years.
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Henry Kissinger , fed up with Israeli haggling, flung a pen at a map of the Sinai Desert. Jimmy Carter clenched his teeth. And Gerald Ford sang “Happy Birthday.”
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Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer chose former Israeli Prime Ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Rabin to be featured on new shekel bills that are scheduled to go into circulation in 2012.
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The more Israel’s former foreign minister and chief negotiator, Tzipi Livni, talks about making peace with the Palestinians, the more polls show her dwindling into obscurity before next week’s election.
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who directed Israel’s 2008 ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, is considering new measures to stop missile attacks from the Hamas- ruled territory.
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Peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas , which are due to begin tomorrow in Washington, won’t succeed in finding a permanent solution to the conflict.
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In 2005, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was then Israel’s finance minister, made an official visit to Uganda.
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