Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
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News Waiver Expected on P.A. Aid
WASHINGTON — Just weeks after the House of Representatives passed a bill barring any direct financial aid to the Palestinian Authority, the Senate is expected to pass a version giving the president the right to waive the controversial restriction. Sources intimately familiar with the legislative process on Capitol Hill said that House and Senate leaders…
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News Bush Sends Message About Settlements
WASHINGTON — In advance of the latest Mideast summit, the Bush administration is giving stiff messages to both Israelis and Palestinians in the raging debate over borders and Jewish settlement expansion. Administration officials have advised the Palestinian Authority against premature discussions of borders. They are also warning Israel not to determine future borders by unilaterally…
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News Bush Mideast Adviser’s Positions Evolve
WASHINGTON — Last week the Bush administration’s point man on the peace process, Elliott Abrams, came to Jerusalem to demand a halt to Israel’s expansion of West Bank settlements. The directive reflected three decades of American opposition to settlement expansion, but marked a radical transformation on Abrams’s part. Just four years ago, as an out-of-government…
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News Sharon, Abbas Seek U.S. Support on Settlements
WASHINGTON — As they prepare for separate meetings with President Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Sharon and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas are battling to secure White House endorsements of their conflicting positions on West Bank settlements. Sharon, who will travel to Crawford, Texas, on April 11 for his first meeting at Bush’s private ranch, wants…
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News Aipac Puts Two Officials on Paid Leave
WASHINGTON — The country’s most influential pro-Israel lobbying organization has put on leave two top officials who are the target of an FBI investigation. Recently the American Israel Public Affairs Committee put Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman on paid leave, the Forward has learned. It is not clear what led Aipac to take the step….
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News House Sets Limits on Palestinian Aid As DeLay Defies Calls of Bush, Rice
WASHINGTON — Defying the wishes of the Bush administration, Congress approved a foreign-aid package this week forbidding any direct assistance to the Palestinian Authority and, in a rare snub, denying the president the authority to waive restrictions in the interest of national security. The legislation was approved 388-to-44 in the House of Representatives and is…
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News Israel Reaching Out to Dovish Groups In Bid To Counteract Conservatives
WASHINGTON — As part of a recently launched campaign to neutralize Jewish and evangelical opposition to the Gaza disengagement plan, Israeli diplomats are reaching out to liberal American organizations that have historically aligned themselves with the peace camp in Israel. Israel’s ambassador in Washington, Danny Ayalon, is slated to take part in a March 14…
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News Top Jewish Council Urges Congress Not To Block Plan for Palestinian Aid
WASHINGTON — Congress is being urged by a top Jewish public-policy organization to approve the Bush administration’s request for $350 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority, even as prominent Jewish lawmakers fight the proposal. A resolution calling on Congress to “to fund” the aid proposal “in its entirety” was passed unanimously Monday at…
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