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    On Thursday's NewsHour...

    Sep 02, 2010 08:06 PM EST

    ... deputy director of the National Hurricane Center, Ed Rappaport, for the latest developments. MIDDLE EAST PEACE TALKS | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to more peace discussions in the future in Thursday's meeting in Washington. Judy Woodruff gets two views from Daniel Levy, director ...

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    As Mideast Peace Talks Start, D.C. Think Tanks Overfloweth With Analysis

    Sep 01, 2010 10:01 PM EST

    ... American to varying degrees of Arab and Palestinian nationalism. And that chasm of differing views and between optimists and pessimists is wide indeed. For instance, Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation, and a former Israeli negotiator, wrote: "Much of the pessimism surrounding this week's peace summitry derives from ...

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    Can Genes Be Patented? Ruling Reignites Debate

    Apr 02, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    ... federal judge agreed with the plaintiffs in a ruling that could have a broad impact on future genetic research. Here to discuss the case are Daniel Ravicher, executive director of the Public Patent Foundation at the Benjamin Cardozo School of law. The foundation was one of the plaintiffs in the ...

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    Mideast Political Uncertainty Stymies Peace Process

    Nov 13, 2009 10:30 PM EST

    ... being built. The understanding did not cover East Jerusalem. "The Americans have told us that's the best we can get from [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu," Erekat said. He added that American officials have told him that while they consider settlements to be illegitimate, they "tried their best" to ...

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    Israel's Next Top Diplomat Has History of Ruffling Feathers

    Mar 20, 2009 08:30 PM EST

    According to some analysts, prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of the rightwing Likud party, had little choice but to name Lieberman, leader of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, to the position of foreign minister. Lieberman's party won the third highest number of parliamentary seats in February ...

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    Other News: Geithner Makes TARP Changes; 4 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq

    Feb 09, 2009 11:25 PM EST

    ... but you all got us out of the river." Israel made ready today for its national elections tomorrow. Public opinion polls showed former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightist Likud Party ahead of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and her centrist party. No single party was expected to win a ...

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    President Obama to Address Arab Spring, 'Turn the Page' on Policy in Region

    May 19, 2011 12:39 PM EST

    ... we are beginning to turn the page to a more positive and hopeful future for U.S. policy in the region." With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expected to meet with President Obama Friday, the New York Times looks at the Middle East peace process as one likely focal point ...

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