Ron Kampeas (JTA)
By Ron Kampeas (JTA)
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Fast Forward Following Lunch With Obama, Wiesel Says Tensions Are ‘Gone’
When Elie Wiesel says it’s all kosher, it’s good. For now, anyway. President Obama capped an intensive two weeks of administration make-nice with Israeli officials and the American Jewish community by hosting Wiesel, the Nobel peace laureate and Holocaust memoirist, for lunch at the White House. “It was a good kosher lunch,” was the first…
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Fast Forward Poll: Obama’s Jewish Approval Rating Is Down
A new survey shows President Obama struggling with American Jews — but not on Israel-related matters. The American Jewish Committee poll of U.S. Jews found that Obama’s approval rating is at 57 percent, with 38 percent disapproving. That’s down from the stratospheric 79 percent approval rating among Jews that Obama enjoyed about a year ago,…
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Fast Forward In Leak Case, Israel Gags News of Journalist Under House Arrest
Israel has held a journalist under secret house arrest since last December based on allegations that during her military service she leaked classified documents suggesting that the Israeli army violated laws dealing with targeted killings. Anat Kam, 23, was arrested last December and charged under Israel’s espionage and treason laws, JTA has learned. Prosecutors are…
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Fast Forward Clinton, Bibi and the Debate at AIPAC Over Jerusalem
Hillary Rodham Clinton to AIPAC: We’ll keep complaining about building in Jerusalem. Benjamin Netanyahu to same: And we’ll keep building. Guess which speech got the bigger cheers. To be sure, in speeches this week at the annual AIPAC policy conference, all sides repeatedly stressed complete confidence in the durability and necessity of a strong U.S.-Israeli…
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Fast Forward Bibi at AIPAC: ‘Jerusalem Is Not a Settlement’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told AIPAC activists that “Jerusalem is not a settlement,” and also depicted the Palestinian Authority as not taking steps for peace. During the comments on Jerusalem, the 8,000 American Israel Public Affairs Committee activists packed into the Washington Convention Center burst into lengthy cheers Monday evening, underscoring how the U.S.-Israel…
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Fast Forward At AIPAC, a Mild Rebuke But Also Plenty of Love From Secretary Clinton
It was like one of those “good” family fights the shrinks on TV urge in marital spats: Make the hurt plain, but make the love plain, too. The leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton did not back down from their bottom lines when Clinton spoke…
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Fast Forward AIPAC Supporters Hope U.S., Israel Will Put Flap Behind Them
By the time this year’s AIPAC policy conference starts, its organizers – indeed, pretty much the entire Washington village inside a village that calls itself “pro-Israel” – hopes the shouting will be over. That’s because they want to get back to shouting – about Iran and its nuclear threat, and not last week’s contretemps between…
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Fast Forward Senate Passes Comprehensive Iran Sanctions Bill
The U.S. Senate passed a comprehensive Iran sanctions bill. The bill passed by voice vote Thursday evening hews closely to a companion bill passed last month in the U.S. House of Representatives; White House requests to roll back some of the harsher provisions were unheeded. The bills target Iran’s energy sector, singling out for sanctions…
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