Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
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News Lessons From Israel in Thinking About the Unthinkable
WASHINGTON — The twisted wreckage of a bus and the burnt-out storefront of a fast-food place. The glare of police lights bouncing off of body bags. Technicians picking though debris in full-body infection suits. When Ralph Morten sees scenes like these, they usually are on television news reports from Tel Aviv or Jerusalem or some…
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News Arab Envoys Planning Translation Service
WASHINGTON — Arab governments are planning a service that would translate favorable news and commentary from the Arab media, in an effort to counterbalance the Middle East Media Research Institute and what detractors say is its distribution of typically critical material from the Arab press. The idea is being discussed by Arab information ministers, who…
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News Agencies Warn Medicaid Shifts Could Imperil Elderly, Refugees
WASHINGTON — Jewish welfare and refugee agencies are watching nervously to see the impact of a new Bush administration regulation that could restrict access to emergency room services for poor patients on Medicaid. The regulation, issued last month in a letter to state Medicaid directors from the federal Department of Health and Human Services, allows…
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News Sharon’s Private Envoy at Center of Talks, Scandals
WASHINGTON — When Ariel Sharon, newly elected prime minister in 2001, found he needed a confidant to deliver private messages to the White House, he turned to an old friend, the Israeli-born American businessman Arie Genger. With no experience in diplomacy or statesmanship but with a fortune based in agricultural chemicals, Genger became Sharon’s de…
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News Aaron Miller Leaving State in a State of ‘Despair’
WASHINGTON — Aaron David Miller remembers with painful clarity the moment he despaired of helping Israelis and Palestinians achieve the peaceful settlement toward which he spent most of his career working. It came during a call on his cell phone last March. A senior adviser for Arab-Israeli negotiations in the State Department, Miller was celebrating…
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News U.S., Israel: Increasing Turmoil Dims Chances for Moderate P.A.
WASHINGTON — Deteriorating economic and social conditions in the West Bank and Gaza soon may render the territories ungovernable, according to a growing number of reports from Israeli and American government agencies and international humanitarian organizations. With the Bush administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace-making efforts on hold until after Israeli elections in late January — and probably…
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News Lobbyist’s New Restaurants Put the ‘K’ in K Street
WASHINGTON — Jack Abramoff needed a kosher restaurant in Washington to which to take his clients and congressional contacts. So he created one. Two, actually. Just like he started an Orthodox Jewish day school when he wasn’t impressed with the one his son was attending, and a high school yeshiva when his son graduated from…
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