Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
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News Fight Erupts in D.C. Over Plight of Palestinian Christians
WASHINGTON — A battle has erupted on Capitol Hill over who should be blamed for the plight of Palestinian Christians: Israel or the Palestinian Authority. All sides agree that the Christian community in the West Bank faces existential threats and is dwindling, from 20% of the population 50 years to about 1.5% today. They bitterly…
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News Groups Slam Palestinian Document
WASHINGTON — American Jewish organizations are strongly criticizing the document guiding national unity talks between Hamas and Fatah officials. Echoing Israel’s position, Jewish organizations say that the “document of national reconciliation” stakes out a series of positions that could end up undermining Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Known as the “prisoners’ document,” the proposed agreement was drafted last…
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News Olmert’s Plug Sparks Push For U.S. Energy Measure
WASHINGTON — A plug from Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has given new life to congressional legislation granting Israel $120 million over five years for energy research and development, Jewish organizational officials said. The breakthrough on Capitol Hill is being credited to Olmert’s May 24 speech to a joint session of Congress, during which he mentioned…
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News Bush’s Homeland Security Cuts Split Local and National Groups
WASHINGTON — The local Jewish community in New York is at odds with national Jewish organizations over the Bush administration’s decision to cut counter-terrorism funding to the city. Leaders of the local community argue that Jews have a special stake in maintaining New York’s high level of funding from the Department of Homeland Security’s Urban…
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News Bush Overture To Iran Splits Israel, Neocons
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration’s offer to open direct talks with Iran and reward Tehran if it stops enriching uranium is exposing a policy rift between neoconservatives on one hand, and the Israeli government and Jewish organizations on the other. Neoconservative analysts are blasting the administration, saying that holding talks with the Islamic regime would…
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News Human Trafficking Report Slaps Israel
WASHINGTON — The State Department has put Israel on a special “watch list,” citing its “failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to address trafficking” in human beings. In its annual Report on Human Trafficking, published Monday, the State Department contended that “the Government of Israel does not fully comply with the minimum standards for…
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News Abbas Makes Risky Move
WASHINGTON — Despite U.S. expressions of hope that a new gambit by the chairman of the Palestinian Authority could pave the way to negotiations with Israel, fears persist in Washington and Jerusalem that the maneuver could backfire and end up strengthening the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas. Bush administration officials believe that Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud…
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News Deal Hammered Out by Palestinian Prisoners
WASHINGTON — The recent platform embraced by the president of the Palestinian Authority and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Mahmoud Abbas, was carefully crafted behind bars earlier this month by representatives of all the major Palestinian factions. The goal: to put an end to the daily battles on the streets of Gaza between Fatah…
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