Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Fast Forward John Kerry Claims Iran Nuclear Deal Among Foreign Policy Wins
WASHINGTON (JTA) – John Kerry in his final press conference as secretary of state listed the Iran nuclear deal and securing Israel as among the Obama administration’s accomplishments. The 2015 agreement between Iran and six major powers led by the United States “is a demonstration, quite simply, of the power of diplomacy to be able…
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Fast Forward House Votes 342-80 for Measure Denouncing UN Resolution on Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) – The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly agreed to condemn a U.N. Security Council anti-settlements resolution and the Obama administration for allowing it through. The House resolution passed Thursday evening 342 to 80. Sponsored by Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the…
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Fast Forward Trump Ally Pushes To Remove ‘Two States’ From Bill Condemning UN
WASHINGTON (JTA) — One of President-elect Donald Trump’s closest congressional allies has proposed removing all references to two states from a congressional bid to condemn an anti-settlements U.N. Security Council resolution. The three-sentence amendment offered Wednesday by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, to the resolution introduced earlier this week by Reps. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the chairman…
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Fast Forward Republican Senators Introduce Bill To Force Embassy Move to Jerusalem
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Three Republican senators have introduced a bill that would force the president to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. The bill introduced Tuesday by Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Dean Heller of Nevada and Ted Cruz of Texas would remove the presidential waiver from the 1995 law passed by Congress recognizing Jerusalem…
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Fast Forward Two-State Solution Still Alive and Kicking — in Congress at Least
There’s a striking difference between competing bids in Congress addressing last month’s U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements. It’s not that they differ on the United Nations – the two nonbinding congressional resolutions under consideration condemn the Security Council, as well as the outgoing Obama administration for abstaining and not exercising the U.S. veto….
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Fast Forward Keith Ellison Tells Rabbis He ‘Regrets’ Past Ties With Farrakhan
(JTA) — In a lengthy letter to the Conservative movement’s rabbinical arm, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison said he regretted past positions that have unsettled Jews as he seeks the chairmanship of the Democratic Party. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, meanwhile, spoke Wednesday with about 50 Jewish Democrats about his own bid to head the Democratic…
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Fast Forward Ron Dermer Calls for U.S. To Move Embassy to Jerusalem
WASHINGTON — In remarks dovetailing with policies embraced by president-elect Donald Trump, Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer delivered a forceful plea for the United States to move the embassy to Jerusalem. “Israel hopes that next year when the new American ambassador to Israel lights the menorah in his embassy he will light it in the same…
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Fast Forward Abe Foxman Blasts David Friedman for ‘Ugly’ Attack on Anti-Defamation League
WASHINGTON – Abraham Foxman, the retired Anti-Defamation League director, said language that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel directed at the group is “unacceptable” and “ugly.” “Ambassador-designate Friedman’s ugly language in describing ADL, its current CEO, and J Street is unacceptable and it undermines the need for unity in our community to face…
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