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The Schmooze Shimon Peres Wishes Iran a Happy New Year
Hot on the heels of the Facebook love fest between everyday Israelis and Iranians, the social media-savvy Israeli President Shimon Peres is sending out special videotaped Nowruz greeting to the Iranian people. Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is being celebrated today. In his taped message, Peres comes across as genuinely concerned about the Iranian people….
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Opinion Israelis Heart Iranians, and Vice Versa
If you weren’t on Facebook this weekend, then you probably missed a huge love fest going on between Israelis and Iranians. As would be expected, the governments of the two countries were not proclaiming their undying devotion to one another. Rather, it was ordinary Israeli and Iranian citizens who were expressing mutual admiration and a…
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News What if Santorum Wins? Mossad Push Back on Iran
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis talks with Forward opinion editor Gal Beckerman and news editor Larry Cohler-Esses about resolutions that were passed by state legislators in Florida and South Carolina calling for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Then, the group considers if Jewish Republicans will get behind Rick Santorum if he…
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Opinion Israel and Iran: What ‘60 Minutes’ Didn’t Tell You
Leslie Stahl’s “60 Minutes” interview Sunday night with former Mossad chief Meir Dagan gave important exposure to his views on the folly of attacking Iran. However, she got two things very wrong, both of which weakened the strength of his case against a military strike. The bottom line is, she let you think Dagan is…
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The Schmooze Shimon Peres Does Tinseltown
When Jason Alexander, the veteran actor from the 1990’s hit TV series “Seinfeld,” met Shimon Peres at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Thursday night, it was, at first, as though he were channeling his old character, George Constanza. “Happy Purim!” he exclaimed, immediately launching into a comedy routine. Then, commenting on the heavy security on the…
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Opinion On Iran, a Win-Win
The conventional wisdom is that the latest meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even if more cordial and productive than their eight prior exchanges, highlighted the stark differences between the two leaders as their nations face the threat of a nuclear Iran. And this gulf, so some urge us to believe,…
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Life Why No Persian Spring?
Today is Purim — the day that we are commanded to retell the story of how a Persian Queen helped save her fellow Jews from annihilation. It’s also International Women’s Day. So it’s no coincidence that a group that opposes the Iranian regime, and its efforts to obtain nuclear weapons — an organization backed by…
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Opinion Can You Still Say Panetta is Undermining Israel?
In addition to Mitt Romney’s remarks at AIPAC yesterday, arguing that his approach to Iran would be a radical break from Obama’s (though nothing he said indicated how it would be different), one of his high-profile foreign policy advisers, Dan Senor, also had a well-placed op-ed in the Wall Street Journal making similar points but…
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