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New Clippers owner Steve Ballmer prizes team tested by adversity

After Steve Ballmer plunked down $2 billion for the NBA\’s Los Angeles Clippers, fans might expect the former Microsoft chief executive to be hitting the reset button on a team that has been through a nasty public fight over racism.

A night of anger and reflection

How do you explain Israel’s resounding success? How do you explain how a tiny country surrounded by medieval violence has managed to create an extraordinary society of more than 100 different nationalities that is on the cutting edge of culture and modernity?

Netanyahu to Obama: Iran must not get nuclear arms

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday that he hopes the U.S. leader will make sure that any final nuclear deal between Iran and world powers does not allow Tehran to stand at the \”threshhold\” of being able to develop nuclear weapons.

Mahmoud Abbas: Winning abroad but losing at home

Palestinians say that when it comes to diplomacy abroad, nobody can challenge the 80-year-old Mahmoud Abbas. But when it comes to tending to matters in the Palestinian territories, he doesn’t do so well.

Netanyahu: Iran poses greater threat than Islamic State

Israel\’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday tried to shift the spotlight away from Islamic State fighters and back to Iran, warning the United Nations that a nuclear-armed Tehran would pose a far greater threat than \”militant Islamists on pickup trucks.\”

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