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27.12.2012 Israel's public diplomacy apparatus, contrary to its poor reputation, is well-coordinated and highly sophisticated. Israel's diplomatic isolation, therefore, cannot be attributed to a mythic "hasbara problem"; it can only be a product of Israeli policy itself
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12.05.2013
The Atlantic
Why Kerry Was Wrong on the Two-State Timeframe
Avner Inbar of Molad takes on the "irreversibility" thesis — that settlement growth functions as a permanent impediment to two states — and and reminds the American Secretary of State, John Kerry that "alarmism about the impending end of the two-state option is a self-fulfilling prophecy."
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10.05.2013
Open Zion
Dani Dayan and the Arab Peace Initiative
Molad analyst Avishay Ben Sasson-Gordis takes Dani Dayan to task for a piece he wrote last week and argues that the recent statements by the Qatari PM accepting land swaps as a part of Arab Peace Initaitive is not interesting or new in and of itself: What is new is the statements' timing.
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09.05.2013
Mother Jones
The Social Network
A group of progressive U.S. organizations have announced a two-week freeze on purchasing advertisement on Facebook, in protest of tactics employed by a new lobby group led by Mark Zuckerberg, the social network's founder. The lobby, FWD.org, seeks comprehensive immigration reform, but has wound up backing projects like the Keystone XL pipeline for political reasons.
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