Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
-
News Hawks Slam Bush Over U.S. Response
WASHINGTON — Supporters of the Iraq war are slamming the Bush administration for criticizing the publication of cartoons that triggered a wave of riots in the Arab and Muslim world. The critics, including pro-war pundits Daniel Pipes and Christopher Hitchens, are saying that the administration should have taken stronger steps to condemn the violent reactions….
-
News Hamas Unlikely To Change Its Charter
WASHINGTON — Since the Hamas victory in the Palestinian legislative elections last week, the Islamic fundamentalist group has come under international pressure to remove any calls for Israel’s destruction from its charter. The problem is that asking Hamas to remove such passages would be like demanding that Marx and Engels drop their calls for overthrowing…
-
News ‘Lobby’ Case Seen as Part Of Campaign To Tighten Control on Official Secrets
WASHINGTON — The sentencing last week of former Pentagon analyst Lawrence Franklin, who admitted to giving classified information to two pro-Israel lobbyists, may have begun to lift the veil of mystery that has shrouded the explosive investigation since it first surfaced a year-and-a-half ago. Sentencing remarks by the judge, as well as recent actions by…
-
News Conservative Group Stays Mum on Alito
WASHINGTON — Following a wave of internal criticism over its endorsement of John Roberts for Supreme Court Chief Justice, the union of Conservative synagogues has adopted a new “charter” to guide its public policy decisions, including a policy of avoiding positions on future nominations. The union is sitting out the fight over President Bush’s latest…
-
News Palestinians 1100 U.S. Mulls Response to Hamas Victory
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is telling foreign diplomats in Washington that the United States might significantly scale back its involvement in the peace process and curtail its relations with the Palestinian Authority if the Islamic militant group Hamas wins next week’s Palestinian parliamentary elections or becomes a key force in a Palestinian government. The…
-
News Palestinians 1100 U.S. Mulls Response to Hamas Victory
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is telling foreign diplomats in Washington that the United States might significantly scale back its involvement in the peace process and curtail its relations with the Palestinian Authority if the Islamic militant group Hamas wins next week’s Palestinian parliamentary elections or becomes a key force in a Palestinian government. The…
-
News Bush Will Work To Bolster Olmert
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will work in coming weeks to boost the standing of Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, while trying to avoid the appearance of meddling in Israel’s upcoming elections, according to Israeli envoys and former American diplomats, American Jewish communal leaders and other Middle East experts. Initial signals from top officials in…
-
News Study Finds Most Bombers Are Educated
WASHINGTON — Most of the Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked Israeli targets in the past five years were either high school or college graduates, and came from relatively less impoverished communities in the northern West Bank, according to a recent study. The study, released this month by an Israeli think tank, looked at the 163…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Exclusive Mahmoud Khalil wants to reassure you
- 2
Culture 70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
- 3
Opinion Trump is backed into a corner on Iran. Get ready for him to start blaming Jews
- 4
Culture The original anti-Zionists have been all but forgotten. Molly Crabapple wants to change that.
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Dan Bilzerian wants to ‘kill Israelis’ and thinks Judaism is ‘terrible.’ Now he’s running for Congress.
-
Fast Forward After AIPAC-backed primary loss, Tom Malinowski endorses rival who says Israel committed genocide
-
Opinion Viktor Orbán may fall. Netanyahu should be next
-
Opinion Hungary is poised to topple an authoritarian leader. American Jews have something to learn
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
