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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 27, 2014
Israel extends Gaza cease-fire for 24 hours, Hamas rejects terms
Israel extended a humanitarian cease-fire in the Gaza Strip for another 24 hours, but Hamas, which dominates the coastal enclave, said it would only accept the truce if Israeli troops left the territory.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 15, 2014
Can't win by ravaging Gaza
Israel's targeting of Hamas is an attempt to distract from the slowly building collective sentiment among Palestinians throughout Palestine and among Palestinian citizens in Israel.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2014
Kerry errs when he invokes specter of boycotts of Israel
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry cleverly addresses every worry articulated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but Kerry's big mistake in his approach to negotiations is his need to publicly invoke, repeatedly, the specter of an international campaign to boycott Israel.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2014
Netanyahu's talks with Kerry will be critical
Support for an independent Palestine alongside the state of Israel is not a constant. An odd tension in public opinion exists on both sides: The desire for the two leaderships to negotiate a settlement is set against a much weaker conviction that they are capable of doing it.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 25, 2013
Obama's Middle East trip leaves behind hope, skepticism
Rescuing the decades-old idea that Israelis and Palestinians can live together in neighboring states emerges as the broad goal of U.S. President Barack Obama's Mideast trip.
EDITORIALS
Jan 31, 2013
The center resurgent in Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expected a mandate for his party and him in last week's ballot. Instead, Israeli voters almost split in half.

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past