Ron Kampeas is the former Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Ron Kampeas
By Ron Kampeas
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Israel News Ron Dermer, New Israel Envoy, Not Shy To Boast of Ties With Netanyahu
(JTA) — “I was with him when…” was the theme of Ron Dermer’s speech to the 2009 American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference. Dermer used the phrase five times in the first five minutes of the speech — the “him” being Benjamin Netanyahu. “I can shed a little insight into the mind of the Israeli…
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Fast Forward Veep Hopefuls Blast Opposing Tickets on Foreign Policy
The two vice-presidential candidates led the way Wednesday as the Obama and McCain campaigns worked to draw clear battle lines on Iran and Israel. In a highly anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention, Alaska Gov. and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin mocked U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for saying more than a year ago…
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Fast Forward American Engineer Arrested on Charges of Spying for Israel
Washington — U.S. authorities arrested an American for spying for Israel. The Justice Department disclosed Tuesday that Ben-Ami Kadish, a mechanical engineer at a U.S. Army facility in Dover, N.J., was arrested on charges of relaying secrets to Israel from 1979 to 1985, including nuclear secrets. Kadish speaks Hebrew and has an Israeli brother, according…
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Fast Forward In Speech on Race, Obama Rebuts His Pastor’s View on Israel
In a bid to quell growing unease about his relationship with a black preacher known for strident rhetoric, Barack Obama described the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s views on America — including its relationship with Israel — as fundamentally “distorted.” Obama addressed the issue during a hastily scheduled speech in Philadelphia, days after the media began airing…
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Fast Forward Spitzer Scandal’s Israeli Angle Feels Like Deja Vu
Washington — A fast-rising Democratic governor, an out of control sex drive and an Israeli enabler — it feels like deja vu all over again on the Hudson. Just four years after the then-governor of New Jersey, James McGreevey, resigned amid revelations of an affair with his Israeli-born ex-homeland security chief, Golan Cipel, Americans were…
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News Tom Lantos Left Behind Human Rights Legacy
The flags dipped at half-staff over the Capitol, the warm remembrances flooded e-mail inboxes, the “Have you heard?” phone calls took a solemn tone. U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) earned all these tributes. He died Monday of esophageal cancer at the age of 80. The mourning was not just for a man but for the…
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Fast Forward Obama Has Courted Jews From Beginning
Ask about Barack Obama’s natural constituencies and you might hear that he’s the first black with a viable shot at the White House, or about his Kenyan father and his childhood in Indonesia, or the youthfulness of his followers, or the millions of Oprah junkies swooning over his candidacy. What you might not hear is…
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News At Tense Summit, Disagreements Divide Bush, Sharon
CRAWFORD, Texas — As photo-ops go, this one didn’t develop quite as expected. The meeting Monday between Israeli Prime Minister Sharon and President Bush at Bush’s vast Texas ranch was to have affirmed the special American-Israeli relationship and paved the way forward in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process — a triumphant summit between two friends, farmers…
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