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Fast Forward Obama Assures Netanyahu Of Commitment To Preventing Nuclear-Armed Iran
President Barack Obama assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that Washington remains committed to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons and also called on Israel and the Palestinians to compromise to reach a U.S.-brokered peace framework. In a meeting at the White House, Netanyahu told Obama that no country has a greater stake…
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Fast Forward Argentina To Scrap Deal With Iran on 1994 Jewish Center Bombing Probe
Argentina’s president said she is ready to abrogate the country’s memorandum with Iran to jointly investigate the deadly 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner challenged Jewish institutions and opposition political parties that rejected the pact signed with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 AMIA attack, to work on an “alternative project,…
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Israel News AIPAC Touts Bipartisanship as Barack Obama Warns Israel To Seek Peace
The pro-Israel lobby has an important message to the American people and to politicians: We are bipartisan. Shouted out on main stages and whispered in closed-door briefings, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee went to great lengths on the opening day of its conference to combat the perception that it has veered off the bipartisan…
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Fast Forward AIPAC Conference Opens with Appeal for Bipartisanship
The pro-Israel lobby AIPAC opened its annual conference with an appeal for bipartisanship. “Bipartisanship is essential,” Michael Kassen, the board chairman of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said Sunday in his opening statement to the conference, which drew a record 14,000 activists. “We must affirm bipartisanship in our own ranks if we want support…
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Israel News AIPAC’s Convention Starts as Iran Sanctions Debacle Still Looms Large
It may not the best timing for convening 14,000 supporters of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington. And it’s not just because another snow storm is bearing down on the nation’s capital or because participants will have to make a tough choice between showing their support for Israel and watching their favorite Hollywood stars walking the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Democratic Donors Push Against Iran Sanctions
Major Democratic donors, many of them Jewish, wrote to party congressional leaders urging them not to advance new Iran sanctions legislation. “Although success in achieving a final agreement is far from guaranteed, Congress should allow these fragile negotiations to proceed without making threats that could derail them or tying the hands of the negotiators by…
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Fast Forward Can AIPAC Get Its Groove Back?
For years, Israeli leaders visiting Washington have been boosted by America’s main pro-Israel lobby, its influence on U.S. Middle East policy long accepted as a matter of conventional wisdom. But when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses an annual convention of Israel’s U.S. supporters next week, he will find the group trying to show it has…
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Fast Forward Iran Lawmakers Summon Foreign Minister Over Holocaust Condemnation
The foreign minister of Iran was summoned to a closed session of the country’s parliament to clarify public comments he made condemning the Holocaust. Some 54 hard-line lawmakers signed the petition summoning Mohammad Javad Zarif to the session, Reuters reported, citing the official Iranian news agency IRNA. The Holocaust was “tragically cruel and should not…
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