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Settlement Issue Still Divides Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
CNN reports that Hillary Clinton attempted to extend the moratorium on West Bank settlements for three months at the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks this week, but Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the...
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End to Israeli Settlement Freeze Imperils Middle East Talks
Depending on what you read, the moratorium on new settlement construction in the West Bank either ended yesterday or ends this Thursday, at the end of the month (I think the issue is the Israeli...
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Netanyahu Considers Settlement Freeze, Makes Demands
The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks hinge on the question of settlements at this point, with the Palestinians and the international community wanting a temporary, 60-day freeze on construction. Israeli...
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Fatah, Hamas Ink Reconciliation Pact
Fatah and Hamas, the two political factions in occupied Palestine, signed an historic reconciliation agreement today, aimed at promoting unity into the next phase of the Israel-Palestine conflict. “We...
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Abbas Confirmed Palestinian Statehood Effort at UN General Assembly
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas formally announced that Palestine will seek recognition as an official state from the United Nations General Assembly this month, setting up a major battle...
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Western Leaders Push Plan for Abbas to Drop Palestinian UN Statehood Bid
[Ed. Note: President Obama spoke to the UN General Assembly this a.m., followed by French President Sarkozy. C-SPAN has live coverage here. ] The Obama Administration is frantic about stopping the...
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Palestine Officially Seeks Statehood Recognition at UN
Palestine submitted their petition to the United Nations Security Council for membership as a state today, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a rousing speech before the...
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When All You Have Left Defending You Is Max Baucus
Virtually every time that Republicans or the Obama Administration talk about working together, they specifically cite the South Korea free trade agreement as a point of covergence. The agreement,...
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Senate GOP Holds Commerce Department Hostage Over Trade Deals
I touched on this in last night’s Roundup, but it’s really something. Republicans in the Senate are using the means at their disposal offered to them by the failure to enact Senate rules reform to hold...
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Agreement on Workers’ Rights and Protections Clears Way for Colombia Free...
President Obama’s trade representative announced today an agreement with Colombia that will allow them to move forward on a free trade agreement. House Republicans had been demanding free trade pacts...
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Obama Administration Begins Process for Passing Three Free Trade Deals
The White House will move forward on a trade agenda that could ramp up quickly. The South Korea, Panama and Colombia free trade deals could all come up for a vote later this year. The administration is...
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Trade Deal Agreement Expected This Week
Politico reports that Congressional leaders and the President have reached a deal that would allow a number of free trade agreements to move forward, along with a renewal of trade adjustment assistance...
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Obama/GOP Trade Deal Looks Set
The White House has just released a set of facts sheets on a trade package that would include the three free trade deals negotiated by the Bush Administration, with Colombia, South Korea and Panama,...
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Senate Passes Trade Adjustment Assistance, Setting Up “Free” Trade Agreements
Speaking of Congress, they may be getting themselves in a position to actually pass those three long-stalled trade agreements. Yesterday the Senate passed a bill “to extend the Generalized System of...
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Pelosi Makes Nice Speech for China Currency Bill UPDATED
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi made a nice speech in the middle of deliberation over the Colombia free trade agreement, arguing that the only item worth discussing on the trade agenda was the bill...
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Colombia Trade Deal Would Have Failed as a Treaty
As Public Citizen’s Lori Wallach explained yesterday, the three trade agreements passed Congress in a whirlwind of activity last night, because a present for the President of South Korea’s visit to...
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North Korea Threatens South Korea With “Final Destruction”
Winston Churchill once said “Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” North Korea, it seems, only took part of the lesson. During a debate at...
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Settlement Issue Still Divides Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
CNN reports that Hillary Clinton attempted to extend the moratorium on West Bank settlements for three months at the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks this week, but Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the...
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End to Israeli Settlement Freeze Imperils Middle East Talks
Depending on what you read, the moratorium on new settlement construction in the West Bank either ended yesterday or ends this Thursday, at the end of the month (I think the issue is the Israeli...
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Netanyahu Considers Settlement Freeze, Makes Demands
The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks hinge on the question of settlements at this point, with the Palestinians and the international community wanting a temporary, 60-day freeze on construction. Israeli...
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