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Fast Forward Was Barack Obama Handshake With Iran Leader Just ‘Accidental’?
President Barack Obama and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shook hands at the United Nations, an Iranian official said on Tuesday, the first handshake between a U.S. president and a high-ranking Iranian official in over 30 years. Iran and the United States have been at loggerheads since they severed diplomatic ties shortly after the…
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Fast Forward Pope Praises Iran Deal in Speech to United Nations
In a speech at the United Nations, Pope Francis praised the Iran nuclear deal and decried the persecution of minorities in the Middle East. “The recent agreement reached on the nuclear question in a sensitive region of Asia and the Middle East is proof of the potential of political good will and of law, exercised…
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Fast Forward Australian Premier Warned Not To Cozy Up to Iran
An Australian Jewish lawmaker called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to dump the nation’s current policy of rapprochement with Iran. In a statement issued Monday, Michael Danby, a federal Labor member of parliament representing Melbourne Ports, said that Turnbull “can be a friend of Israel or a friend of the dangerous Iranian regime. He cannot…
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Opinion Why Does Everybody Sound So Anti-Semitic All of a Sudden?
You don’t have to be paranoid to sense a new strain of anti-Semitism surfacing in American politics of late. Paranoia helps, but it’s not required. We sense anti-Semitism when a media personality of Ann Coulter’s stature tweets about “f—king Jews” looming too large in Republican thinking. When The New York Times runs lists of Congress…
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Fast Forward Ted Cruz Threatens Government Shutdown in Last-Ditch Push To Block Iran Deal
Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz said on Tuesday Congress should use the threat of a government shutdown to force President Barack Obama’s administration to hand over more information about the nuclear agreement with Iran. Days after a deadline passed for Congress to vote on the nuclear pact, the 2016 presidential hopeful said any legislation to…
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Opinion Just How Deeply Split Is Jewish Public on Iran Deal?
Looking at the public opinion polling on the Iran nuclear deal over the past few months, it shouldn’t surprise you to learn that there are some sharp differences — among Americans in general and among American Jews in particular. What might surprise you are the differences between the surveys themselves. It seems a slight difference…
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Fast Forward Senate Democrats Block Last Gasp GOP Move on Iran
Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked legislation meant to kill the Iran nuclear deal for a third time, securing perhaps the greatest foreign policy win of President Barack Obama’s six years in office and clearing the way to implement the accord. By a 56-42 vote, the Republican-majority Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to…
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Opinion Why Israel Must Bury Hatchet With U.S. Over Iran — Now
The congressional debate on the Iran nuclear deal is over. President Obama has prevailed. The United States will implement the P5+1 agreement with Iran. Israel will have to live with it. In sharp contrast with Washington, no real public discussion of the deal’s details was ever conducted in Israel. Most of the opposition patriotically sided…
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