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• Bill Clinton: Netanyahu killed the peace process | The Cable

  Who's to blame for the continued failure of the Middle East peace process? Former President Bill Clinton said today that it is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- whose government moved the goalposts upon taking power, and whose rise represents a key reason there has been no Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Clinton, in a roundtable with bloggers today on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, gave an extensive recounting of the deterioration in the Middle East peace process since he pressed both parties to agree to a final settlement at Camp David in 2000. He said there are two main reasons for the lack of a comprehensive peace today: the reluctance of the Netanyahu administration to accept the terms of the Camp David deal and a demographic shift in Israel that is making the Israeli public less amenable to peace.

• U.N.convenient Truth - By James Verini | Foreign Policy

  Weighing the Palestinian stone-throwers in the streets against Israel's indisputable -- no, laughable -- military supremacy over its neighbors, he concluded, "We come up against the immense gap between the reality of our power and the psychology of our vulnerability."

• Libya military site yields possible radioactive material - CNN.com

  Anti-Gadhafi forces have come across a military site in southern Libya that contains what appears to be radioactive material. The site, not far from Sabha in the Sahara desert, has two warehouses containing thousands of blue barrels marked with tape saying "radioactive," and plastic bags of yellow powder sealed with the same type tape.

• Diplomat: Chavez urged Iran to free Americans - Yahoo! News

  A Venezuelan diplomat said Thursday that President Hugo Chavez played a behind-the-scenes role in efforts to secure the freedom of two Americans who were released from prison by Iran this week. Deputy Foreign Minister Temir Porras said Venezuela's government was approached for help last year by friends and supporters of the two men, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer. Porras said Chavez, who is a strong critic of Washington yet expresses friendship for the U.S. people, believed the Americans' account that they were simply hiking when they were detained in 2009 along the Iran-Iraq border and accused of spying

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