Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech Sunday evening at Bar-Ilan University had one goal: To get US President Barack Obama off of Israel's back.

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Recognizing the Obama administration's inherent and unprecedented hostility to Israel, Netanyahu sought to deflect its pressure by giving his speech at Bar-Ilan University in June.

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Bennett sees the Bar-Ilan speech as a betrayal.

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Participants in research led by Ella Miron-Spektor, a lecturer in organizational psychology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, were told they would be playing the role of a customer-service worker, then asked to listen to recordings of angry, abusive remarks by a customer to another customer-service worker.

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These reassessments have led three leading conservative thinkers - former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton, Middle East Forum president Daniel Pipes, and Efraim Inbar, director of Bar-Ilan University's Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies - to all publish articles over the past month rejecting the two-state solution.

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