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News WATCH: Donald Trump Vows Strong U.S. Ties With Israel, Wows AIPAC
(Editor’s Note: Donald Trump’s speech Monday night at the AIPAC Policy Conference begins at the 1:29:00 mark in the video.) WASHINGTON – Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday vowed an unbreakable U.S. alliance with Israel if he is elected president in November, seeking to clear up confusion over his repeated pledges to remain neutral…
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Fast Forward Trump Implies Israel Will Pay Back Military Assistance
Donald Trump seemed to imply Monday that Israel will pay back military assistance it has received from the U.S. After being asked about his past condemnations of countries who he said received defense aid from the U.S., he was asked during a press conference whether the same statement should apply to Israel. “I think Israel…
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Opinion Opposing Trump at AIPAC Is No Partisan Stance — It’s Jewish and All-American Patriotism
This evening, at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference, Donald Trump will take the stage, bringing with him messages of hate, intolerance and violence. I will not sit idly by. I refuse to sit, and in that refusal I am united with my fellow rabbis against the politics of hate and its implications….
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Fast Forward READ: Letter From Orthodox Rabbis Urges Donald Trump To Repudiate Racism
Forty modern Orthodox rabbis in an open letter called on Donald Trump to repudiate racism during his speech to the AIPAC policy conference. The rabbis from throughout the United States, who said in the letter posted online Friday that they “care deeply not only about America’s relationship with Israel, but the values and character of…
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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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