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News Romney Flexes Muscles on Iran
Surging GOP Presidential contender Mitt Romney talked tough to ABC News at a campaign appearance in Tulsa, Okla. yesterday over a recent report about CIA plans in Iran. “The reporting has the potential of jeopardizing our national security,” the former Massachusetts governor said. “Stated quite plainly, it has the potential of affecting human life. We…
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News Obama: Go Ahead, Divest My Day
Senator Barack Obama has introduced The Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2007, a measure that would, according to this report, “authorize state and local governments and private fund-managers to divest assets for companies that invest over $20 million in Iran’s energy sector, which the U.S. government would publish in a list every six months.” The…
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News Ahmadinejad Draws Protests Throughout Trip to N.Y.
When he came to New York for his first United Nations General Assembly last year, the newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a virtual unknown. But in the past year he has become the international face of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and growing influence from Lebanon to Iraq, not to mention his calls for the…
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Israel News Bush Presses Israel in Apparent Bid to Maintain Anti-Iranian Front
WASHINGTON — In an apparent effort to bolster Arab and European support for anti-Iranian measures, the Bush administration is urging Jerusalem to take steps to ease tensions in the West Bank and Gaza and to generate progress toward possible negotiations with the Palestinians. Israel, according to American, Israeli and European sources, has agreed to such…
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News Groups Push For Sanctions, Fear U.S. Will Falter on Iran
WASHINGTON — Jewish organization are seeking to mobilize the international community, through direct meetings with foreign diplomats and by lobbying the Bush administration, to impose sanctions on Iran for defiantly carrying on with its nuclear program. With the arrival of the August 31 deadline for Iran to stop its enrichment of uranium, pro-Israel groups are…
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Opinion Waiting for the Hurricane Of Anti-Israel Racism To Blow Over
Sooner or later the current war in Lebanon will come to an end. Israel will survive, lick its wounds, recharge its diminished energies and return, with revitalized enthusiasm, to its television shows and vacations. Hezbollah probably will have suffered some damage, and Israel perhaps will have been able to buy itself a fake, temporary peace,…
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Israel News Does Jerusalem Have a Plan For What Comes Afterward?
Two weeks into the war, the looming question for Israel is how to end it successfully. Because there are no simple answers, another question lurks in the background: Did the government’s decision to go into battle against Hezbollah in Lebanon include a plan for what would come after? In the welter of bulletins about ground…
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Israel News Bush Urged To Give Israel More Time for Attacks
WASHINGTON — Bucking calls in the international community for a cease-fire in the Middle East, Jewish organizations launched a major lobbying offensive in the nation’s capital this week to give Israel more time to deal a decisive blow to Islamist militants in Lebanon and Gaza. With the civilian death toll in Lebanon surpassing 200 early…
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Yiddish דער קאַפֿע-הױז װי אַ מקום-מקלט פֿאַר ייִדישער קולטורThe cafe as a refuge of Jewish culture
אין די בערלינער קאַפֿע־הײַזער האָט די אינטעליגענץ געשמועסט, געלײענט צײַטונגען און געשפּילן שאַך.
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די שאַפֿער פֿון דער אָפּערע שטעלן זיך פֿאָר די ווירקונג פֿון שפּרינצעס טויט אויף אירע שוועסטער און צייטלס אייניקל.
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