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 Signals White House Mulling Lame-Duck Push for Mideast Peace
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry signaled in a speech that the Obama administration was still considering action on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in its final days, although it might fall short of a direct intervention on the issue. There’s no way to “force-feed” peace between Israel and the Palestinians, Kerry said in a lengthy speech delivered Tuesday…
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News Steve Mnuchin’s Secret Ties to Globalist Villains (Read: ‘Jews’) Targeted by Donald Trump
Like the post-credits bonus scene in a Marvel superhero movie, Donald Trump’s final pre-election ad added three surprising villains to his usual rogues’ gallery (Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, assorted foreigners): Lloyd Blankfein, George Soros and Janet Yellen. All three deal with money: Blankfein as CEO of the Goldman Sachs investment back, Soros as…
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Fast Forward Jimmy Carter Urges President Obama To Recognize ‘Palestine’ Before Leaving Office
WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter urged President Barack Obama to recognize a state of Palestine before leaving office. Writing Monday in a New York Times op-ed, the former president said before Donald Trump assumes the presidency on Jan. 20, the United States should back a United Nations Security Council resolution that lays down the parameters of a…
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Fast Forward Trump Denounces White Supremacists, Defends Bannon
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said he wants to find out if and why he is “energizing” white supremacists. “It’s not a group I want to energize,” Trump said Tuesday in a meeting with New York Times editorial staff, according to a tweet by Maggie Haberman, a reporter in attendance. Trump was referring to the…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Refuses To Condemn White Supremacist Event With Nazi Salutes
WASHINGTON –Donald Trump’s transition team declined to directly condemn a conference where his victory was hailed as a triumph for white supremacists, instead reiterating a general denunciation of racism. Asked by NBC and other media to comment on the weekend conference in Washington D.C. , the president-elect’s transition team said Monday that Trump opposed “racism of any…
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Fast Forward Anti-BDS Bills in Congress Would Impose Fines on Violators
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan bills targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel would impose fines on participating businesses but not criminal penalties, a co-sponsor of a Senate version said. Measures introduced in recent weeks in the U.S. Senate by Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Ben. Cardin, D-Md., and in the U.S. House of Representatives…
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Fast Forward 7 Big-Bucks Jewish Donors Like Sheldon Adelson Lead Trump Inauguration Committee
WASHINGTON — A number of top Jewish Republican donors are on President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration committee. Nine out of the 20 names listed on the transition team’s announcement released Monday are Jewish. Several of them are on the Republican Jewish Coalition board. The committee plans and fund-raises for the inauguration. Typically, incoming presidents reserve spots…
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Fast Forward Mike Huckabee Sorry for Blaming Hate Vandalism on ‘Jewish Liberals’
WASHINGTON — Mike Huckabee apologized for posting a false news report blaming “liberal, Jewish” students for an alleged hate crime that involved a mention of President-elect Donald Trump. The story, appearing on the Conservative Tribune website, blamed an attack in March at Northwestern University on “liberal, Jewish Northwestern students” seeking to smear Trump and his…
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