Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
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News Network Beams America Into Arab Living Rooms
WASHINGTON — After two months on the air, Alhurra, America’s Arabic satellite TV network, has become a favorite punching bag of Arab commentators and religious leaders throughout the Middle East. Cartoonists ridicule it. Columnists dismiss it. One Saudi cleric went so far as to issue an Islamic edict outlawing Muslims from watching the network or…
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News Allies Balk at Role In Implementing Sharon-Bush Plan
WASHINGTON — The White House decision to side with Israel on the issues of Palestinian refugees and West Bank settlements is producing an international backlash that could undermine efforts to implement Prime Minister Sharon’s Gaza disengagement plan, diplomats and Middle East experts said this week. American officials have been urging Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority…
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News Washington Puts Weight Behind Gaza Withdrawal
WASHINGTON — Caught in a deepening Iraqi quagmire with barely any international support, the Bush administration is lobbying the international community heavily to endorse Ariel Sharon’s plan for unilateral disengagement from Gaza. Even before the Israeli prime minister returned to Jerusalem from Washington to promote his disengagement plan among Likud party members, American envoys had…
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News White House Pressured To Send Powell to Conference on Antisemitism
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is feeling heat from human rights and Jewish groups pressuring it to send a high-level official — preferably Secretary of State Colin Powell — to head the U.S. delegation to the upcoming Berlin conference on antisemitism. The executive director of Human Rights First, Michael Posner, sent a letter to the…
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News Pullout Plan Faring Well With Bush, Arab States
WASHINGTON — Despite his mounting legal and political problems at home, Prime Minister Sharon is making headway in securing U.S. support for his unilateral withdrawal plan and aggressive efforts to crush Hamas, according to American and Israeli sources. Encouraged by the relatively mild response of Arab leaders to Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed…
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News Bill To Ban Discrimination Based on Travel Introduced
WASHINGTON — New legislation introduced in Congress would bar life insurance companies from denying coverage or otherwise discriminating against Americans based on their lawful past travel to Israel or any other country. The “Life Insurance Anti-Discrimination in Travel Act” was introduced in the House earlier this month by Rep. Rahm Emanuel, an Illinois Democrat, in…
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News Terrorism Experts Warn Jewish Sites Endangered After Hit on Hamas Head; Groups Clashing On Bill To Provide Security Funding
WASHINGTON — Following Israel’s assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, terrorism experts are warning that American Jewish sites are ripe targets for revenge attacks, as synagogues and other communal institutions race to step up security. “I am very concerned that Yassin’s assassination may come back to hit us in our soft underbelly: Jewish targets abroad,” said…
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News Groups Clashing On Bill To Provide Security Funding
WASHINGTON — As some observers suggest that the threat of terrorist strikes against American targets is intensifying, an increasingly bitter dispute has erupted among Jewish groups over a bill that would provide federal funds to enhance security at nonprofit organizations deemed particularly vulnerable to attack. The bill, which supporters expect to be introduced in Congress…
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