Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
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News Lobbyists Quiet Before White House Visits
WASHINGTON — On the eve of back-to-back White House visits by the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers, and with pressure mounting for Israeli gestures to strengthen the Palestinian leader, Washington lobbyists for Israel were keeping an uncharacteristically low profile this week. With a handful of exceptions on the right and left, lobbyists for Israel were…
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News ZOA Blasts State Dept. Advisers as Anti-Israel
WASHINGTON — The Zionist Organization of America is blasting the State Department for naming what it called “hostile critics of Israel” to the new Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World. The panel was assembled at the request of Congress to study the efficacy of the State Department’s public outreach to…
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News Bush Losing Arab Voters
WASHINGTON — A new poll is showing a dramatic drop in Arab-American support for President Bush. The poll, conducted by Zogby International, found that if presidential elections were held today, Bush would win only one-third of the overall Arab vote and a mere 10% of the vote among Arab Muslims. Pollster John Zogby, who conducted…
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News Organizations Divided Over Anti-Drug Campaign
WASHINGTON — A Bush administration attempt to enlist churches, mosques and synagogues in the fight against teenage drug use is dividing Jewish organizations, but not along usual lines. The White House initiative has drawn support from B’nai B’rith Youth Organization and United Jewish Communities, the roof body of Jewish community federations in North America. But…
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News Palestinians Head to D.C. To Fight West Bank Fence
WASHINGTON — A team of young Palestinian policy advisers is coming to Washington this week in an effort to sway political opinions about the security fence that Israel is building in the West Bank. The group’s presentation on the subject has already influenced at least one member of the Bush administration: National Security Adviser Condoleezza…
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News Sharon Mum As Minister Slams ‘Map’ In N.Y. Talk
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Sharon has no plans to rebuke a senior minister in his Cabinet who publicly lambasted President Bush’s Middle East policy in a New York briefing this week and stated — incorrectly, it appears — that he had the support of a ranking presidential adviser. The minister, Effi Eitam of the National…
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News Groups Mobilizing To Protect Medicaid
WASHINGTON — The nation’s major Jewish organizations are launching a program aimed at shielding federal social programs that cater to the poor, with its first priority to be maintaining Medicaid’s present funding and strict federal supervision over the way states deliver Medicaid services. “This will be our main focus in the next few months,” said…
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News Israel Tries To Ease Concern About Fence
WASHINGTON — Responding to American criticism of its West Bank security fence, Israel has given Washington assurances that the fence, which snakes and winds inside the West Bank, is not intended as a border with the future Palestinian state. Israel also assured the Bush administration that it will give due consideration to Palestinian humanitarian concerns…
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