Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward Why Israel Is Worried Over What Trump Told The Russians
WASHINGTON (JTA) — As of Tuesday morning, thanks to the unfiltered confessional that is Twitter, we now know this: President Donald Trump shared information with Russia about “terrorism and flight safety,” as he put it. Trump was responding, after about 12 hours, to a Washington Post report that he shared highly classified information with the…
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Israel News 6 Things You Didn’t Know About The Six Day War
(JTA) – The three paratroopers casting eyes upward at the Western Wall. The troops reveling in the waters of the Suez Canal. The sweeping views of a Galilee no longer vulnerable to shelling from atop the Golan Heights. Not to mention Naomi Shemer’s anthem “Jerusalem of Gold,” reissued after the Six Day War with a…
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Fast Forward The Death Of The TV Channel That Once Unified Israel
(JTA) — On a chilly fall night in 1993, I learned that the bespectacled army reservist sitting across from me in an Ottoman-era building in Nablus and dining on watery yogurt and hard-boiled eggs was an executive at Israel’s then-nascent Channel 2. He wanted to continue our chat on Jane Austen — he noticed I…
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News Meet The Jews Who Vouch For Trump Aides Steve Bannon And Sebastian Gorka
(JTA) — Once it was the job of the shtadlan — a literal translation from Hebrew is “intercessor” — to make the case for the Jews to the czar, the sultan, the king. Now a couple of the president’s men are seeking shtadlans to make their case to the Jews. Stephen Bannon, President Donald Trump’s…
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Fast Forward Despite Controversies, James Comey Has Fan Club In Jewish Security World
WASHINGTON (JTA) — “You make us better,” James Comey told the Anti-Defamation League in his final public speech as FBI director. Judging from the applause in the conference room at Washington D.C.’s venerable Mayflower Hotel, the feeling was mutual. Mired in investigations of the scandals of 2016 (Hillary Clinton’s relationship with her email server) and…
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Fast Forward H.R. McMaster Insists ‘Disruptive’ Trump Is Good For Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In an Israel Independence Day message, U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, said President Donald Trump’s disruptive approach to governing coupled with the rise of the Islamic State presented new opportunities for regional peace. Trump “is a results-oriented businessman who feels an intense responsibility to succeed for his investors, in this case…
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Israel News Abbas Meeting With Trump May Be His Chance To Shine – If He Can Pull It Off
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump wants a deal with Israel and the Palestinians. The Israeli and Palestinian leaders say they want Trump to make the deal. What could go wrong? For all the good cheer guaranteed when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets Wednesday with Trump at the White House, it’s a question that’s…
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Fast Forward On Jews And The Holocaust, Trump Tries To Show That He Finally Gets It
WASHINGTON (JTA) – President Donald Trump got the memo on the Holocaust and the Jews — at least for now. In a barrage of statements this week from the president and his aides, the Trump administration wants you to know, he gets it, he really gets it: The Holocaust describes a genocide committed only against…
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