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Opinion Trump Is Using Israel To Shield His Racism
When someone uses racist and incendiary language to accuse American Jews of undermining the U.S. and being foreign implants in service of Israel, we waste no time in condemning that language as anti-Semitic. But what do we do when someone uses racist and incendiary language to accuse other Americans of undermining the U.S. and being…
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Opinion Caving To Trump On Racist Tweets, American Jewish Institutions Lost All Moral Credibility
Donald Trump’s vulgar racism is not incidental to his political character. It’s not a latent undercurrent revealed in some unguarded moment, but rather the force through which his political career was launched and continues to perpetuate his hold over the Republican Party. This has been obvious for quite some time, indeed since he announced his…
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Fast Forward Kushner On Trump’s Sexual Assault Boast: ‘I Don’t Think It’s All That Bad.’
Jared Kushner responded to the “Access Hollywood” tape on which his father-in-law, Donald Trump, claimed to have sexually assaulted women, “You know, I don’t think it’s all that bad,” according to an upcoming book. Politico released an excerpt from correspondent Tim Albert’s soon to be released book, “American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the…
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Fast Forward Trump Hosts NFL Owner Robert Kraft — Who’s Fighting Prostitution Charges
President Trump invited dozens of business leaders to the White House for a dinner with the Emir of Qatar on Monday. Among those on the guest list: his friend Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner who is currently charged in Florida with soliciting prostitution. Trump described the gathering as a “who’s who of people…
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Fast Forward TIMELINE: How Jeffrey Epstein Evaded A Reckoning For His Sex Crimes
Jeffrey Epstein has slinked in and out of the public eye for nearly two decades. This is a timeline of his actions, the media’s coverage of him and his misdeeds, and the appalling history of his lavish treatment in the hands of federal prosecutors. 1999 This is the earliest year that federal prosecutors have given…
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Fast Forward Bibi Says Trump Knew In Advance Of Mossad Mission To Steal Iran Nuclear Files
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he informed President Trump in advance of what Israel has described as a spy mission in Tehran last year to capture a secret Iranian nuclear archive. Netanyahu said in April 2018 that Mossad operatives had spirited thousands of hidden documents out of Tehran…
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Opinion It’s Time To Admit That The US Is Signing The Checks For Greater Israel
As part of their alleged plan for the Middle East, the Trump administration held what they called an economic “workshop” in Manama. It was an utter failure. The plan presented was nothing more than a real-estate brochure, and its revelation in Bahrain a poorly attended affair. What Trump’s team, led by his son-in-law Jared Kushner,…
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Opinion Jared Kushner’s Economic ‘Peace’ Plan Is An Embarrassment
In the fall of 2014, I sat around a table in the State Department with forty representatives of Israeli and Palestinian civil society and the peace team of then Secretary John Kerry. After failing to get his framework agreement released as the proximity talks between the parties had broken down, we were there to ask…
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