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Breaking News White House Needs Only 1 More Senator To Claim Iran Victory
Supporters of the international nuclear agreement with Iran moved within one vote of mustering enough support to protect the deal in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday when two more Democratic senators said they would support the pact. Senators Bob Casey and Chris Coons, known as Iran hard-liners, both said they backed the agreement announced on…
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Opinion 4 Dramas Exposed by the Forward’s Interview With President Obama — Real and Fake
Jane Eisner’s brings into relief no fewer than four separate dramas that have come to a head in the last year — three real, one fake. The fake one is the so-called crisis in U.S.-Israel relations. Here I agree fully with both the President and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Disagreement over the Iran deal…
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Opinion How Benjamin Netanyahu’s Allies Twist the Truth on Iran
“A lie,” Winston Churchill once said (some say it was Mark Twain), “gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” As Exhibit A, I submit Martin Kramer’s August 24 blog post on the Commentary website, in which he lambasted me for a claim I never made, namely…
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News The Full Transcript of Forward Editor-in-Chief’s Interview With Obama
Here is the transcript of Jane Eisner’s interview with President Obama on Friday, August 28 in the Oval Office. The questions have been edited slightly for clarity. His responses are published here in full. JANE EISNER: You have been generous in explaining the Iran deal to all sorts of people, so I want to focus…
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News President Barack Obama Speaks to Jews in Historic Interview With the Forward
At the end of my interview with President Obama the morning of Friday, August 28, after he had defended with lawyerly precision the pending multinational nuclear agreement with Iran and voiced a determined optimism that the toxic relations between his administration and Israel will be repaired, I asked him a more personal question. He had…
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Breaking News Iran Jails Two People for 10 Years on Charges of Spying for U.S. and Israel
A Revolutionary Court in Iran has sentenced two people to 10 years each in jail on charges of spying for the United States and Israel, the judiciary spokesman said on Sunday without naming those convicted. “These two people were sentenced to 10 years in jail by the Revolutionary Court,” Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei was quoted as…
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News Barack Obama Reaches Out to Jewish ‘Family’ on Iran and Israel
President Obama sought to reach out to Jews as “family” Friday as he made a dramatic new appeal for support of the nuclear deal with Iran — and vowed to repair the damaged relationship with Israel. In an hour-long webcast address sponsored by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of…
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Breaking News Tom Carper Backs Iran Deal — 30 Senators Now Support White House
Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat from Delaware, said on Friday that he will support the nuclear deal with Iran. “This is a good deal for America and our allies, including Israel, one of our closest allies. And, oh yes. It beats the likely alternative – war with Iran – hands down,” Carper wrote in an…
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