Barack Obama In Israel: How Much Can The President Do? -- The Economist
ON THE eve of Barack Obama’s first trip to Israel as president, commentators are lobbing a lot of unsolicited advice his way. At the Washington Post, Jennifer Rubin recommends channeling George W. Bush, who affirmed the Jews’ biblical tie to the land and avoided all criticism of Israeli settlements in his 2008 speech to the Knesset. In a New York Times op-ed, from the opposite perspective, Rashid Khalidi insists that Mr Obama “must forthrightly oppose the occupation and the settlements and support an inalienable Palestinian right to freedom, equality and statehood.”
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Obama overdoes the U.S.-Israel comparison -- Michael McGough, L.A. Times
Palestinians Welcome Obama with Demands and Ultimatums -- Seth Mandel, Commentary
Obama Mideast Policy Alienates Israelis And Arabs -- IBD Editorial
Iraq: Democrats, Dragons or Drones? -- Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times
Iraq War Seen as 'Strategic Failure by Many' -- Spiegel Online
Saudi Arabia's Silent Revolution -- Edouard Tetreau, World Crunch
Cyberattack shakes South Korea: Could North Korea have pulled it off? -- Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor
Will Cyprus’s woes infect the rest of Europe? -- Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post
Insight: Desperate for bailout, Cyprus plays risky geopolitical game -- Peter Apps and Henning Gloystein, Reuters
ECB May Cut Emergency Funding to Cyprus -- Spiegel Online
Britain faces a triple whammy of debt, EU and Scots -- Jeffrey Simpson, The Globe and Mail
The administration yanks a missile that upset Russia -- Washington Post editorial
Is This the America That Europe Wants and Needs? -- Jan Techau, Real Clear World/Carnegie Endowment
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