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					</div><div class="byline">By <a title="Hillary Zaken" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/hillary-zaken/">Hillary Zaken</a> and <a title="Mitch Ginsburg" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/mitch-ginsburg/">Mitch Ginsburg</a></div>
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						<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/justices-lambaste-ulpana-petition-in-turbulent-hearing/">State wants 60-day delay on enforcement of ruling that West Bank neighborhood must be torn down</a>
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					<a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/nato-is-no-peace-panacea/" rel="external">Last month, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, told a meeting of Arab ambassadors in Tokyo that NATO troops should be used to ensure Israel's security after it withdraws from the West Bank.    Poor Abbas: he'll go anywhere to raise the droopy flag of Palestine, except to a room where Bibi Netanyahu waits to begin the real business of peacemaking, which, at best, would be arduous and exasperating. An independent Palestine will not simply emerge and be. So Abbas's statement can be read as the first sign that he...</a>
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