Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
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News Olmert, Cheered in D.C., Bows to U.S. Call for Talks
WASHINGTON — Despite receiving warm embraces in Congress and in the White House this week, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert returned home with mounting opposition and a lack of clear American support for his plan to have Israel determine its borders unilaterally. President Bush effusively praised Olmert during a White House meeting Tuesday, and Olmert was…
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News Olmert, Cheered in D.C., Bows to U.S. Call for Talks
WASHINGTON — Despite receiving warm embraces in Congress and in the White House this week, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert returned home with mounting opposition and a lack of clear American support for his plan to have Israel determine its borders unilaterally. President Bush effusively praised Olmert during a White House meeting Tuesday, and Olmert was…
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News On Eve of Olmert Visit, White House Holds Off Embracing Pullout Plan
WASHINGTON — With President Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert set to meet next week, the White House is sending clear signals that it does not plan to offer an immediate public endorsement of the Israeli leader’s plan for unilateral pullbacks from the West Bank. This week Bush administration officials told a team of Olmert…
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News Olmert Begins To Lay Out Unilateral Plan
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s visit to Washington next week is being depicted by senior administration officials as a “getting to know you” visit. But as much as President Bush and his foreign-affairs staffers would like to get better acquainted with Olmert, they are anxious to hear more from him about his plan to…
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News E.U. Aid Plan Sets Stage for Clash
WASHINGTON — Israel and its allies in Washington could find themselves on a collision course with the Bush administration over the European Union’s plan to pay the salaries of employees in the Hamas-led Palestinian government. Faced with international pressure and with a looming humanitarian and political crisis in the Palestinian territories, sources say, the Bush…
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News Osama’s Death Decree Leaves Liberal Arab Asking: What, Me Worry?
WASHINGTON — More than two weeks have passed since Osama bin Laden called on “the entire Muslim nation” to kill Kuwaiti reformist Ahmad Al-Baghdadi and three other Arab liberals — but the news has yet to reach many corners of the Persian Gulf. “He did?” Al-Baghdadi said when informed by the Forward of bin Laden’s…
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News Groups to Bush: Drop Iran-Israel Linkage
WASHINGTON — Jewish community leaders have urged the White House to refrain from publicly pledging to defend Israel against possible Iranian hostilities, senior Jewish activists told the Forward. Messages were passed to the White House through several channels, Jewish activists said. And it seems to have worked: Speaking before the annual conference of the American…
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News U.S.-Europe Rift Looms on Hamas Aid
WASHINGTON — American-led efforts to block aid to the Hamas-led Plaestinian government are forcing the Islamic fundamentalist movement to backtrack on several fronts, but international support for the financial siege appears to be waning. With the Palestinian Authority facing bankruptcy and unable to pay salaries to government employees, Hamas is quietly seeking ways to form…
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