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		<title>From Jerusalem to Boston: Learning to Live With the Threat of Urban Violence</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/16/life-during-wartime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<title>Can Obama Make Israelis Believe Again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of President Obama’s visit to Israel finally emerged on Thursday, in the ebullient afterglow of the speech that was billed as the centerpiece of his trip, and lived up to the billing. After a first term spent trying to alter the mechanics of the negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians over the land they both claim — tinkering with settlement freezes, summoning leaders to the White House — Obama decided on a new approach to Middle East peace: he’d talk them into it. The master orator brought all his skills to the Jerusalem address, braiding emotion, history, reassurance, logic and personal charisma into a speech that did to the audience what a really good Obama speech can be relied upon to do: it lifted them out of themselves and made them think anything was possible. It was a stunning success, at least until his listeners return to the realities awaiting them right outside the auditorium (which stands behind the bus stop that was the scene of the last terror attack inside Jerusalem, a 2011 backpack bomb that killed one). “He’s so good, I loved it even though I don’t agree with some of what he said,” says Gila Kordana, descending a staircase from the balcony in a crowd buzzing with the experience. Such as? “I’m not really for the idea of two states,” she says, not a small thing. Nor was she much taken with Obama’s take on the young Palestinians he’d seen earlier the same afternoon at the West Bank city of Al Bireh. “Talking to them,” he said, “they weren’t that different from my daughters. They weren’t that different from your daughters or sons.” To finish reading this article from TIME World, click here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=91086&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">U.S. President Obama acknowledges the audience after delivering a speech on mideast policy at the Jerusalem Convention Center</media:title>
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		<title>Obama in Israel: Running to Stay Put</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/19/obama-in-israel-running-to-stay-put/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama heads to Israel late Tuesday for the first foreign trip of his second term, a visit more about maintaining the status quo in a region filled with upheaval than about historic treaties or groundbreaking peace deals. When U.S. Presidents visited Jerusalem in years past, it was for big reasons, usually involving the ends of various conflicts or to make a push for Middle East peace. Obama’s ambitions are a lot smaller. The President’s hopes for this trip are about getting leaders not to do things, rather than prompting action. In Jerusalem, he needs Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to bomb Iran before diplomatic talks have run their course. He also wants Netanyahu to stop, or at least slow, the building of new settlements in Palestinian areas so as to give the peace process a chance. And Obama would like Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas not to report Israel to the International Criminal Court for human-rights violations. “This trip is about managing Middle East problems. It’s not about solving them,” says Haim Malka, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “The President’s broad objectives are to convince the Israeli and Palestinian publics that he’s protecting their interests and preventing their leaders from taking any unilateral steps that would undermine U.S. interests and their own,” Malka says. (MORE: The Secret of the Wonder Weapon That Israel Will Show Off to Obama) For an American President, Obama is unusually unpopular among Israelis: he had a 33% approval rating last year. Which is why instead of speaking to the Israeli parliament, Obama chose to give a speech directly to the Israeli people. “Given this is his first trip to Israel as President, we thought that it was very important for him to speak directly to Israelis about the nature of the friendship between the United States and Israel, and the challenges that we’re faced with,” Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters ahead of the trip. Obama may not change public opinion with a single speech,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=90747&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Netanyahu Weakened in Close Israeli Election</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/22/israels-exit-polls-reveal-a-staggered-netanyahu-and-a-rising-centrist-star/?iid=gs-main-lead</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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			<media:title type="html">Israel&#039;s Prime Minister Netanyahu delivers a statement in Jerusalem</media:title>
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		<title>Israel Moves Left</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/22/israel-moves-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow. Exit polls indicate that the Knesset will be nearly equally divided between left and right. There&#8217;s even a slim chance that Benjamin Netanyahu could lose. The actual shape of the coalition won&#8217;t be determined for days, perhaps weeks. But it seems clear that this has been a real setback for Netanyahu and radical settler allies. That&#8217;s good news for the cause of peace&#8211;at the very least, Netanyahu is going to have to move to reflect the will of the Israeli population&#8211;although that will be tricky and difficult if a challenge to his leadership rises from within his Likud Beitenu party/<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=85938&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israel’s Election: What Happened to All the Excitement?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/22/israels-election-what-happened-to-all-the-excitement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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