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Opinion On Iran, a Divide That Goes Beyond Bibi and Obama
In the mid-1990s, pundits noticed an incipient breakdown in the known world order. For centuries international affairs consisted of relationships among nation-states, in an arrangement dating back to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. Now, suddenly, it wasn’t working. The primary culprit was the rise of so-called nonstate actors — transnational entities capable of defying…
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Breaking News President Obama Says Deal Should Let Iran Save Face on Sanctions
President Barack Obama said a solution on sanctions would have to allow Iran’s leaders to present an “acceptable” version to their public. Obama was asked at a news conference Friday what his position was on phasing out sanctions as part of a nuclear deal with Iran that would exchange sanctions relief for restrictions aimed at…
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Breaking News President Obama Agrees To Sign ‘Reasonable’ Compromise With Congress on Iran
President Barack Obama said on Friday a bill allowing Congress to review a deal concerning Iran’s nuclear program was a “reasonable compromise” he planned to sign, and he expressed confidence it would not derail talks with Tehran. Obama told a White House news conference that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator Bob Corker and the…
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Breaking News President Obama Condemns Anti-Semitism on Holocaust Remembrance Day
President Barack Obama condemned anti-Semitism in a Holocaust Remembrance Day message. “It is incumbent upon us to make real those timeless words ‘Never forget. Never again,’” Obama said in the statement released Thursday morning. “Yet even as we recognize that mankind is capable of unspeakable acts of evil, we also draw strength from the survivors,…
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Opinion Divergent Views of the Holocaust Form Root of Tension With Israel
Once upon a time, decades before the embittered encounters of Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, an Israeli prime minister decided to publicly humiliate an American president whom he deemed disloyal. The men in question were Menachem Begin and Ronald Reagan, and the immediate cause of their confrontation in 1981 was Israel’s annexation of the Golan…
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Breaking News Israel Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day With Sirens and Tears
Survivors of the Holocaust “have guided the entire nation,” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said during Israel’s national Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony. “Today, 70 years after the liberation of the death camps, we stand before you, and we swear an oath and promise, ‘All of us, each and every one of us, have a number tattooed…
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Breaking News Is Congress Poised To Pass Bill Blocking President Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal?
(Reuters) — Senators scrambled to shore up bipartisan support for a controversial Iran nuclear bill before a committee meeting on Tuesday that could determine whether the legislation will survive President Barack Obama’s promised veto. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to debate and vote on Tuesday afternoon on the measure put forward by Senator…
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News President Obama Holds ‘Emotional’ Meetings With Jewish Leaders on Iran
President Barack Obama held a “very heartfelt” meetiing with Jewish leaders at the White House on Monday to discuss the Iran nuclear deal and their concerns about Israel’s security. The extraordinary meeting ran for an hour — far longer than expected — and Obama impressed the leaders with his sincerity and dedication to Israel and…
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