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Understanding the Physics of AIPAC
Even the most alert readers are having trouble decoding the mixed messages heard at the recent policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the famed pro-Israel lobbying organization. We watched the crowned heads of Washington and Jerusalem rise to proclaim the undying friendship between our two nations and then bicker over the most…
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Letters April 2, 2010
Drawing a Chilling Line in the Bay I must disagree with the conclusions of your March 26 editorial “Drawing a Line in the Bay” regarding the funding guidelines for Israel-related programming recently enacted by San Francisco’s Jewish Community Federation. Rather than being reasonable, these guidelines are devised to limit and chill discussion. At a time…
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Opinion A Healthier America
During the last few months, as the political discourse in Washington went from disquieting to messy to ugly, and a paralyzing dysfunction blanketed the capital as thickly as the winter snow, it was easy to become discouraged. Easy to forget the powerful sense of possibility that drove Barack Obama into office — driven not only…
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Opinion What Will Bibi Do?
After a rough, unsettling few weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clearly has some decisions to make. His well-honed ability to rally the troops at an AIPAC conference and shmooze lawmakers on Capitol Hill, all while holding his fractious coalition together back home were once again displayed with fine effect during his visit to Washington….
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Opinion Republicans on Obama: 24% Say He ‘May Be the Anti-Christ’ (Harris Poll)
Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house: Author and former Giuliani speechwriter John Avlon posts, in a new blog post at TheDailyBeast.com, offers some mind-boggling numbers from new Harris poll. I’ll let him speak for himself: On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama:…
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Opinion First Violence in Health-care Backlash: Trashing Office of Jewish Rep (Hey, It’s Just Coincidence)
First they went after the blacks. ‘Tea party’ protesters accused of spitting on lawmaker, using racial slurs (Washington Post) Then they went after the gays. Tea Partyers Call Frank a ‘Fa**ot’ (The Advocate) Then they started shouting down pro-life Catholics. Lawmaker acknowledges shouting out ‘baby-killer’ during Stupak floor speech (The Hill) Then they trashed the…
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Opinion It’s the Talk of the Town: Remnick on Israeli Obama-bashing
New Yorker editor David Remnick put his finger on an important aspect of the current U.S.-Israel relationship, overlooked by most observers, that contributes to the current tensions between the two governments. In his Comment piece in the magazine’s current issue, Remnick writes that for all the pride Israeli leaders take in their grasp of American…
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Opinion Shas Explains American Policy
When Israel’s Interior Ministry announced approval of plans for 1,600 new homes for Orthodox Jews in East Jerusalem on Monday, March 8, embarrassing the visiting Vice President Joe Biden, Interior Minister Eli Yishai of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party found himself in the hot seat. After toughing it out for two days while the heat…
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Opinion How Not To Win Friends: Hug the Right, Alienate the Left, Snub the Jews
Bibi Netanyahu is due in Washington next week to address the annual AIPAC Policy Conference. Nahum Barnea of Yediot Ahronot, the lead political commentator at Israel’s largest-circulation newspaper and widely considered the dean of Israeli journalism, has some advice for him. If you’re relying on the Jewish right as your main base of support in…
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Opinion Giving Israel the Cold Shoulder
How did things get so bad between Israel and the United States? New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman puts all the blame on Israel. He cites the decision — announced by the Jerusalem District Planning Committee while Vice President Joseph Biden was in Israel — to build 1,600 housing units in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood,…
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Opinion Behind the Biden Flap
No, Virginia, they were not sitting around wondering how they could humiliate Vice President Joseph Biden or how they could wreck the U.S.-Israel relationship. If you think they were, you probably also believe that the Mossad assassination in Dubai was purposely planned to end as a fiasco. But the spark behind the Biden flap was…
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