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George Eliot's novelDaniel Deronda is a brilliant look into the beginnings of the Zionist idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine - and it informs what's happening there today. Please post your comments below.
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Obama's call for 'partnership' transcended the medieval walls and once-closed communities of the ancient cities in the Old World where he was speaking, particularly here in a little town in Alsace. Please post your comments below.
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Pakistan is the number one trouble area in the world, Ignatius argues in today's video. We will never be able to fix the problem if we don't understand the roots of their instability. Your thoughts?
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At the end of this trip, I'm reminded of what a startling contrast it is to travel between India and Pakistan these days: India feels like a country confidently embracing the future and well on its way toward getting there; Pakistan feels wracked by the torment of becoming modern. What about those of you who live in these countries? Your thoughts?
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Jordan's King Abdullah has a proposition for the new Israeli prime minister, Benyamin Netanyahu: The payoff for a two-state solution to the Palestinian problem is that Israel will get a 23-state solution, or even a 57-state solution--in the form of recognition by nations that don't now have diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.
What's interesting about Abdullah's approach is that it provides a possible way out of the collision that seems to be ahead between the Obama administration and Netanyahu over the Palestinian issue. Obama is committed to the two-state approach; Netanyahu publicly has resisted it. Abdullah's formulation--of a broader regional framework that gives Israel more tangible benefits from peacemaking--may provide a bridge.
The Jordanian monarch made his case for a regional approach to peacemaking in an interview at his Washington hotel Thursday. He outlined some of the ideas he had shared earlier this week in private meetings with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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