E.J. Kessler
By E.J. Kessler
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Israel News Trying To Craft a Winning Message for Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON — These days Senator Hillary Clinton has been sounding more like a Bush administration hawk than like the first lady who drew flak for kissing Yasser Arafat’s wife and endorsing a Palestinian state before the White House did. The Palestinian Authority must “act with dispatch to dismantle the terror operations,” Clinton declared in a…
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Israel News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Chairmen’s Corner: Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean plied their trade with pro-Israel activists this week, speaking for 20 minutes apiece March 14 in Washington at a gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s leadership network, a group of heavy hitters. The event wasn’t open to the…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
American Apathy?: Is the White House snubbing Israel? It kind of looks that way. In what is expected to be the largest gathering of world leaders in Israel (with the exception of the 1995 funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin) in the Jewish state’s history, leaders of 30 nations are descending next week on Jerusalem…
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News Parley Exposing Rift Among Types Of Conservatives
The fallout from a rowdy conservative conference last month is exposing the fault lines in the Republican Party between Christian conservatives and small-government libertarians — including many Jewish activists. At the Conservative Political Action Conference, held February 17-19 in Washington, attendees loudly booed a speaker who spoke in defense of President Bush’s proposed immigration reforms….
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Israel News Florida Democrat Blazing Her Own Trail on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON —Just two months into her freshman term in Congress, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz already is distinguishing herself from her predecessor and mentor, Peter Deutsch, a former representative. While Deutsch was among the most hawkish congressional Democrats on Middle East issues, Wasserman Schultz, who represents Florida’s 20th district, a heavily Jewish swath of Broward County,…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Kate’s Brooklyn Bundle: Rep. Katherine Harris, a Florida Republican, is refusing to return $20,000 in contributions she received from five individuals associated with the Postville, Iowa, Agriprocessors plant, according to a report in The Tampa Tribune. The Postville plant, one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in America, was the subject of an exposé last year…
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News Ex-Pentagon Aide Cautions Neocons On Mideast Push
A former top-level Pentagon official is opening up a new front in the Middle East: He’s taking aim at the neoconservatives who he says have been viewing the Iraqi election and other recent regional developments as an invitation to a full-scale democracy push. “We’re not going to transform the Middle East overnight,” Dov Zakheim told…
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News Hadassah Pushing Stem-cell Legislation
In a move that is likely to bring it into conflict with Catholic and Evangelical Christian groups, the largest Jewish organization in America is launching a push for pro-stem-cell-research legislation in state houses around the country. Hadassah, the 300,000-member women’s Zionist organization, is bringing hundreds of advocates to the capitals of 47 states this spring…
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