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Fast Forward Israel Features Heavily in Presidential Debate
The U.S.-Israel alliance and the need to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon were major themes in the final presidential debate. Both candidates said Monday during their foreign policy debate that they would stand with Israel should Iran attack it. “Israel is a true friend,” President Obama said when debate moderator Bob Schieffer of…
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Opinion Judging the Yad Vashem Debate
The final debate is over — the last one ever for Obama and for us this election cycle — and it’s time for some flash judgment. Israel, Israel, Israel: As anyone could have predicted, Israel was mentioned a lot. As “true friend.” As “greatest ally.” I think I counted 6 mentions by the president to…
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Fast Forward Obama Hits Romney Hard in Foreign Policy Debate
President Barack Obama aggressively attacked Republican challenger Mitt Romney on foreign policy on Monday in their third and final debate in an effort to blunt his opponent’s surge in the polls with two weeks left until Election Day. The high-stakes debate strayed repeatedly into domestic policy, with Romney seeking to bolster his argument that Obama…
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Opinion Obama Won by Talking Like a Republican
This late in the campaign, everything is about swing states – and the foreign policy debate was largely about Florida, where moderate Jews could well decide who gets the state’s 29 electoral votes. On those grounds, on the basis of issues important to Florida Jews, President Obama won this debate, but in a bizarre, looking-glass…
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Opinion What Is the ‘Jewish Vote’?
No one can say whether the Jewish vote actually exists. Jews vote, but not as a block. Thus, the idea of a distinctly Jewish vote is, in a way, a mirage, more in our heads than in the heads of voters as they go to the polls. The Jewish vote is the accumulation of votes…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Vote Offers Small Dose of Democracy
Palestinians voted in local elections in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Saturday, their first vote for six years and one with little choice, out of step with democratic revolutions elsewhere in the Arab world. The results were expected to largely reaffirm the Western-backed, mainly secular Fatah party, which runs a de facto government in the…
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Israel News Fresh Israeli Face Pushes Economic Message
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called early elections, he cast the Iranian nuclear threat as the primary issue facing Israel—and analysts predicted the vote would turn on voters’ fears of war. But if Netanyahu’s would-be opponents have anything to say about it, the January 22 election could be more about the price of cottage cheese…
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Fast Forward Belgium Election Triggers ‘Wave’ of Anti-Semitism
Belgium’s recent local elections triggered “an unprecedented wave of manifestations of anti-Semitism,” according to the country’s organization of French-speaking Jews. The Oct. 14 election and the campaign that preceded it “were characterized by a flood of anti-Semitic events the likes of which we have never before seen,” Maurice Sosnowski, president of the CCOJB, said in…
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