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John L. Esposito: Can the US broker a breakthrough? (Al Jazeera)

A leader of the Tea Party movement recently characterised the passage of the Healthcare Bill-which for a while appeared to have been on life support - as a Phoenix rising from the ashes. Barack Obama now has a Phoenix-like opportunity to achieve what no US president was able to do - broker a lasting peace in the Palestine-Israel conflict. >

Sasha Polakow-Suransky: When AIPAC said 'no' to Israel (Foreignpolicy.com)

The U.S.-Israel relationship has entered into a tailspin for the first time since 1991, when Secretary of State James Baker refused loan guarantees to Yitzhak Shamir's Likud government. >

Ensure Israel arms curbs, say MPs (BBC)

The UK government must ensure that military equipment sold to Israel is not used in the occupied territories, MPs have said. >

'Teenager killed' in Gaza clashes (BBC)

A Palestinian teenager has died in a clash near Gaza's southern border, according to medical sources. >

Roger Cohen: Lo, the Mideast Moves (The New York Times)

The passage of the U.S. health care bill is a major foreign policy victory for President Barack Obama. It empowers him by demonstrating his ability to deliver. Nowhere is that more important than in the Middle East. >

Paul McGeough: The big shift: US puts Israel on notice (The Sydney Morning Herald)

At times it is hard to tell where the main game is in the Middle East, or to identify just when history has veered off at a tangent that might make a big difference. >

Laura Rozen: Fierce debate on Israel underway inside Obama administration (Politico)

Since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's tense visit to the White House last week, an intense debate inside the Obama administration about how to proceed with Netanyahu to advance the Middle East peace process has grown more heated. >

Christopher Hazou: Israel glorifies its own murderers (Los Angeles Times)

In their March 17 Times Op-Ed article, "Why glorify the murderers?" Ron Kehrmann, Yossi Mendelevich and Yossi Zur make a number of misleading statements and remove all historical context in their effort to demonize Palestinians as people who hate Israeli children more than they love their own. >

A wall of suspicion (The Economist)

Glum Israelis likened the event to thieves entering in the night. When Binyamin Netanyahu and his aides met Barack Obama in the White House on March 23rd, the president forbade any media coverage-not even a quick photograph-in the Oval Office. The encounter with Israel's prime minister did not seem to lead to the jovial reconciliation that politicians on both sides, after a fortnight of angry mud-slinging between Washington and Jerusalem, had hoped for. >

The views expressed in these articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of The Jerusalem Fund.

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