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Fast Forward 73 Senators Sign AIPAC-Backed Letter Urging Continued Iran Restrictions
A letter backed by AIPAC urging President Obama to keep up pressure on Iran even as he negotiates with the regime garnered signatures from 73 U.S. Senators. “We strongly believe there should be absolutely no diminution of pressure on the Iranians until the totality of their nuclear program has been addressed,” reads the letter, initiated…
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Fast Forward AIPAC Calls for Review of U.S.-Palestinian Ties
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee called for a “full review” of the U.S. relationship with the Palestine Liberation Organization, including shutting its Washington office, in the wake of its obtaining non-member state status at the United Nations. “In requesting this action, PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is effectively turning his back on talks with Israel…
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Opinion Marshall Wittmann’s Long, Strange Trip to AIPAC
AIPAC’s new spokesman Marshall Wittmann has a wandering eye, at least when it comes to politics. Wittmann was once a lobbyist for Ralph Reed’s Christian Coalition. He’s also a onetime Trotskyite who has served as a spokesman for labor unions – as well as for Republican Sen. John McCain. In 2006, the New York Times…
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Israel News Democrats Lash Out at GOP on Israel
Democrats hit back hard at critics of President Barack Obama’s handling of relations with Israel Tuesday night, devoting a prime time slot on opening night of their convention to a full-throated appeal to Jewish voters. Former Florida Rep. Robert Wexler delivered the televised speech, and bitterly attacked Republican nominee Mitt Romney in an interview with…
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Israel News Laughs Aside, Junkets Raise Serious Issues
Belated revelations of the escapades of a group of congressmen in the Sea of Galilee last year have put a number of more serious issues in the spotlight. Comedians had a field day in the immediate aftermath of a report in Politico that Kansas Republican Kevin Yoder went swimming nude in the company of a…
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Opinion Exploiting Jewish Fear on Iran
Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav famously said that the main thing is never to be at all afraid. The revered rabbi was wrong. It is madness never to be afraid at all. We need to know whether to hide from the wolves, to slay them, or in some other way defend against them. That said, it…
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News Howard Berman Wins Pro-Israel Donors
It’s the battle that has confronted pro-Israel donors nationwide with a choice they hate: having to decide between two staunchly pro-Israel congressional incumbents with whom many have long, supportive relationships. But one way or another, pro-Israel donors have come down firmly on the side of Democratic Rep. Howard Berman in his death match against Democratic…
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Opinion Why Bibi Called Vote: ‘AIPAC Saw Obama Win’
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to call early elections in September followed a “discreet” meeting with leaders of AIPAC, who told him that polls show President Obama heading for reelection in November—so writes Maariv chief diplomatic correspondent Ben Caspit, as reported by Noam Sheizaf on the left-wing, English-language Israeli site 972mag.com blog. Here’s Caspit, as translated…
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