The US has spent months building up a tougher stance on Israeli settlements but Mrs. Clinton’s recent praise of the Israeli government policy to temporarily halt construction is giving the pro-Palestinian camp reason for pause. ++ This “almost complete about-face” bypasses what could have been a major new marker on the road map to peace. ++ Perhaps the United States is abandoning its hard line
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President Bush’s refusal to comment on the Israeli air strike over northern Syria has ignited even more speculation, report Steven Lee Myers and Steven Erlanger for the New York Times. Current and former US and Israeli officials claim that the Bush administration was provided with advance notice of the attack. And while American officials maintain they are not yet convinced of the
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