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Fast Forward Barack Obama Says Bibi Has No Argument on Iran Nuclear Diplomacy
President Barack Obama said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had not offered “any rebuttal” to his administration’s argument for the success of Iran nuclear talks. “I don’t think there’s been any rebuttal of my argument,” Obama told Fareed Zakaria on CNN’s New Day in an interview to be broadcast Sunday. Zakaria had asked Obama about…
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Opinion Bibi’s Bad Choice
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech to Congress next month has already accomplished a rare feat: It has united ideologues as different as Jeremy Ben Ami of J Street and Chris Wallace at Fox News — in opposition. When the left-wing J Street organizes a petition calling on Congress to delay the speech, and…
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Fast Forward White House Welcomes Senate Move To Delay Iran Sanctions
Several Democratic U.S. senators said on Tuesday they would give the Obama administration at least two more months to reach a nuclear deal with Iran before voting for tighter economic restrictions, easing the threat that Congress might override President Barack Obama’s veto of a new sanctions bill. U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, co-author of the legislation…
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Fast Forward Argentina President Dissolves Spy Agency Over Alberto Nisman Death Controversy
President Cristina Fernandez plans to disband Argentina’s intelligence agency amid suspicions that rogue agents were behind the mysterious death of a state prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center. In her first televised address since Alberto Nisman was found dead with a single bullet to the head, Fernandez said on Monday night…
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Fast Forward Democrats Push Back on Iran Sanctions
Democratic U.S. senators introduced a resolution on Monday opposing more sanctions on Iran unless nuclear talks fail or Tehran breaks an agreement, countering a push for tougher sanctions backed by Republicans that President Barack Obama has pledged to veto. “For those who agree that the sanctions bill in the Banking Committee is detrimental, this resolution…
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Opinion Why I Fled Argentina After Alberto Nisman Scoop
Argentine journalist Damian Pachter after arriving in Tel Aviv on January 25 / Haaretz So here they are, the craziest 48 hours of my life. When my source gave me the scoop on Alberto Nisman’s death, I was writing a piece on the special prosecutor’s accusations against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, her (Jewish) Foreign…
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Opinion Reporter Who Broke Alberto Nisman Story Lands in Israel
Damian Pachter, the Argentinian journalist who broke the news of the death a week ago of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, has landed in Israel after fleeing for his life on Saturday. In an impromptu press conference (video here) at Ben-Gurion Airport Sunday morning, Pachter affirmed in fluent Hebrew that he was being followed and believed…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Rejects Mounting Criticism of Speech to Congress
(Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended on Sunday a planned speech to the U.S. Congress about Iran, saying he had a moral obligation to take every opportunity to speak out on an issue that poses a mortal threat to his country. His visit to Washington in March has opened up a political rift…
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