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News No Division of Jerusalem, Hillary Says
In a position paper released to JTA today, Hillary Clinton affirms her belief in Israel’s right to exist with an undivided Jersalem as its capital.
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News A Muslim Congressman Heads to the Holy Land
Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota is among a congressional delegation visiting Israel this week with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. The eighteen-member group, which is almost all freshmen, also includes Jewish congressmen Paul Hodes, John Yarmuth and Steve Cohen. My colleague Nathan Guttman is in Israel now and will have a story up this week…
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News Is Obama Destined for the Campaign’s Israel Hot Seat?
When the three leading Democratic presidential contenders got together for a faith and politics forum this past Monday night, it was Illinois Senator Barack Obama who once again fielded a bonus round question about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Asked whether the Palestinians are being treated morally, fairly, and justly by the Israelis, Obama told the audience…
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News Law & Order: Israel
Fred Thompson says it’s time to let Israel take care of business.
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Israel News Baker Group Advisers ‘Surprised,’ ‘Upset’ at Report’s Israel-Iraq Link
Washington – Several advisers to the bipartisan Iraq Study Group were surprised and upset by the decision of panel leaders to argue that American success in Iraq depends in part on progress in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Forward has learned. Issued eight weeks ago, the Iraq Study Group’s final report asserted that “the United…
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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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Opinion Radical Visions of A New Middle East
President Bush was not the first to introduce the term “new Middle East.” Shimon Peres preceded the American president by a decade. But Bush’s vision for a new Middle East — that aspiration to Arab reform and democracy that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was presumably referring to when, visiting Beirut at the height of…
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Israel News Senators Seek Curb on Cluster Bombs
WASHINGTON — Reflecting growing discontent in Washington with Israel’s use of American-made cluster bombs in heavily populated areas of Lebanon, two leading Democratic senators this week introduced legislation that would require recipients of such munitions not to use them in or near civilian centers. Senators Dianne Feinstein of California and Patrick Leahy of Vermont this…
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