Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Israel Blasts Agency Overseeing Palestinian Refugees
Despite an embarrassing retreat from allegations that United Nations ambulances were being used to transport Palestinian missiles, Israel is stepping up its efforts to discredit the U.N. agency that oversees Palestinian refugees. Israel announced that soon it would file indictments against 13 Palestinians employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. It blasted the…
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News Israeli Officials Offer Divergent Views of Egypt’s Plans for Peace
An internal Israeli feud over Egypt’s attitude toward peace spilled over onto American shores last week, when two of Jerusalem’s top foreign-policy officials met with Jewish groups here and delivered diametrically opposing views of Egyptian intentions. In the space of three days, members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations heard from…
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News Israel Tries To Block U.N. Move on Fence
UNITED NATIONS — Israel is pressing diplomats from the European Union and Russia to help block a Palestinian-backed move in the Security Council to demand that Israel comply with the recent world court ruling against Israel’s West Bank security fence. The Netherlands-based world court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, issued a nonbinding…
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News Bush Ripped Over Influx Of Hezbollah Into America
The Bush administration has failed to act against a major Hezbollah infiltration of the United States, Senator Bob Graham told the Forward. In an exclusive interview, Graham, a Florida Democrat and former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite militant organization, has more trained operatives in America than Al…
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News Bombing Case Against Iranians in Doubt
With the collapse of Argentina’s investigation into the so-called “local connection” of a deadly 1994 Jewish community center bombing, following the acquittal this month of five men charged with aiding the attack, the fate of an indictment against Hezbollah and radical elements of the Iranian government remains uncertain. The indictment against the Iranians and their…
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News CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
WASHINGTON — With America’s pro-Israel lobby scrambling to combat media leaks from unnamed government officials, the White House is drawing criticism from congressmen and Jewish communal officials over the FBI investigation into allegations that officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee illegally transferred secret information to Israel. Lawmakers and Jewish organizational leaders are questioning…
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News Neocons Blast Bush’s Inactio On ‘Spy’ Affair
In an indication of their growing estrangement with the Bush administration, neoconservatives are slamming the White House for failing to stop what they describe as an antisemitic campaign to marginalize them being conducted by the CIA and the State Department. This view was outlined in a memo circulating among neoconservative foreign policy analysts in Washington….
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News Affair May Slow Push for Regime Change in Tehran
The disclosure this week of an FBI investigation into the activities of a Defense Department official involved in Iran policy is being seen as a blow to advocates of regime change in Tehran. A key Pentagon supporter of such a policy, Lawrence Franklin, is reportedly under investigation for allegedly passing classified information about American policy…
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