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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Slams Donald Trump’s Israel Policy As ‘Dangerously Wrong’
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton derided Donald Trump as a feckless negotiator and told AIPAC that “walking away” from the Middle East was not an option for the United States, a broadside against the Republican front-runner that signaled her general election strategy. “We need steady hands, not a president who says he is neutral on…
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Fast Forward VIDEO: Joe Biden at AIPAC Scolds Israel for Expanding Settlements
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden called on Israel’s government on Sunday to demonstrate its commitment to a two-state solution to end the conflict with the Palestinians and said settlement expansion is weakening prospects for peace. “Israel’s government’s steady and systematic process of expanding settlements, legalizing outposts, seizing land, is eroding in my view the…
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News AIPAC Acts to Manage Trump
AIPAC used its opening plenary session Sunday night and Hillary Clinton’s speech Monday morning to dampen the controversy around Donald Trump. Conference leadership requested a civil reception for all speakers; subtly criticized Trump’s message and made the unusual move of not introducing presidential candidates who are also speaking — enabling them to avoid introducing Trump….
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Fast Forward AIPAC To Appoint First Woman President in Over a Decade
Lillian Pinkus, from Dallas, will assume the presidency of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee during its annual policy conference in Washington, D.C., from Sunday through Tuesday. She will be the first woman to lead the lobby since 2006, when Bernice Manocherian ended her presidency. Manocherian was preceded by Amy Friedkin, whose 2002-04 presidency was…
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Fast Forward ADL Redirects Trump Donations to Anti-Bias Programs
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League has redirected the total amount of funds contributed by GOP front running presidential candidate Donald Trump over the past decade to fund new anti-bias and anti-bullying education programs. The total amount of the donations is $56,000. “These undoubtedly were sincere gifts,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, in a statement…
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Opinion Trump’s AIPAC Speech Is Totally Predictable. What About Our Response?
While Jews ardently dispute whether AIPAC should have invited Donald Trump to speak to their Washington conference, that particular die has been cast. The invitation went out. So Trump — the loudest, most poisonous, nativist, mob-arousing, bigoted public person that America has yet produced in this century — is going to stand at the rostrum of a…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Turns Down Invitation To Address AIPAC Confab
WASHINGTON — Citing his campaign schedule, Bernie Sanders said he would not address AIPAC’s conference next week, making him the only presidential candidate that will not attend the large annual pro-Israel gathering this year. “I would very much have enjoyed speaking at the AIPAC conference,” Sanders said in a letter Friday to Robert Cohen, the…
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Fast Forward Aiming for Unity, AIPAC Invites Trump, and Controversy
Washington – Recovering from a tough fight over the Iranian nuclear deal, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was hoping for a policy conference that would mend fences, heal wounds, and bridge the political chasm the Iran debate created within the Jewish community. “Come Together,” reads the slogan for this year’s AIPAC policy conference, opening…
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