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Fast Forward Weapons Experts Leave Syria as U.S. Attack Looms
U.N. experts left Syria on Saturday after investigating a poison gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians, and the United States said it was planning a limited response to punish Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad for the “brutal and flagrant” assault. U.S. President Barack Obama said the United States, which has five cruise-missile equipped destroyers in…
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Opinion As War Nears, Ghosts of Bush’s Iraq Haunt Obama
The United States moved several steps closer Friday to attacking Syria. President Obama strategized by phone with the British and French leaders, and briefly addressed reporters (video here, transcript here), just before a meeting with Baltic leaders, about the options he’s considering for responding to Syria’s reported use of chemical weapons. French president Francois Hollande…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Will Visit Stockholm Synagogue During Trip to Sweden
President Barack Obama is slated to visit the Great Synagogue of Stockholm during his visit to Sweden. Obama, who will arrive in the Swedish capital Wednesday on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, is en route to the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, Svenska Dagbladet reported Thursday. The U.S. embassy in Stockholm confirmed that the…
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Opinion Sequestration’s Jewish Toll
Lest you think that the thoughtless, cowardly attempt to reduce federal spending, known as sequestration, was nowhere near as bad as it sounded, listen to Nancy Volpert. She’s the director of public policy for the Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, the oldest charity in L.A. and one of the largest, an organization dedicated to…
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Fast Forward Syria Warns U.S. Military Action Will Inflame Entire Middle East
Syria warned the United States against any military action over a suspected chemical weapons attack in its civil war, saying it would “create a ball of fire that will inflame the Middle East”. President Bashar al-Assad’s closest ally Iran also said Washington should not cross the “red line” on Syria, where doctors said hundreds were…
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Fast Forward Eliot Engel Urges Air Strikes on Syrian Forces After Chemical Attack
The top Democrat on the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee urged President Barack Obama on Friday to order air strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government after the apparent gassing deaths of hundreds of civilians. Representative Eliot Engel cited Obama’s statement that the use of chemical weapons by Assad’s forces would cross a “red…
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Israel News Israel’s Alliance With Turkey on the Rocks Again
For a brief moment on March 22, relations between Turkey and Israel seemed to be getting on the right track. From a cabin near the tarmac in Ben Gurion Airport as he was preparing to return home after a successful trip to Israel, President Obama called Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with Israeli Prime…
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News White House Condemns Turkish Prime Minister’s ‘Offensive’ Remarks About Israel
ISTANBUL – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan angered Ankara’s U.S. ally, as well as regional leaders in Egypt and Israel, by accusing Israel on Tuesday of helping overthrow Cairo’s Islamist president. The White House called the remarks “offensive”. Erdogan, who has become one of the fiercest critics of the Egyptian army’s removal of Mohamed Mursi,…
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