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G8 calls for release of Gilad Shalit

The Group of Eight leading industrialized nations called on Thursday for the immediately release of Gilad Shalit, after Egyptian-brokered talks to secure the kidnapped Israeli soldier\’s release had come to a standstill.

Sarkozy’s summit gets every* Arab country to sit with Israel

While the French-initiated summit for the Union for the Mediterranean did not produce any major breakthroughs, French President Nicolas Sarkozy did recognize one achievement: every Arab country but *Libya sitting down with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Olmert in D.C.: Iran talk, not goodbyes

Expressions of love, walks down memory lane, even the rain lashing Washington\’s monuments: The latest meeting between Ehud Olmert and George Bush played out like the end of a movie romance — only the Israeli prime minister says he\’s not going anywhere because there is work to be done, especially when it comes to facing down Iran.

Summit Tackles Iran Nukes, College Strife

More than 1,000 pro-Israel activists from across the United States will meet in Los Angeles for the Oct. 30-31 National Summit on Foreign Policy and Politics of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Negotiating Jerusalem

As Prime Minister Ehud Barak engages this week in Middle East summitry, there is one issue on which he can afford to make the fewest concessions: Jerusalem.

Dealing With Syria

This weekend\’s Swiss summit between Bill Clinton and Hafez al-Assad is a make-or-break moment in the quest for peace between Syria and Israel. The American president will soon be a lame duck. The septuagenarian Syrian president is sick and eager to hand over the reins to his son, Bashar. And the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, the man in the empty chair in Geneva, is losing control of his coalition and his constituency.
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