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Israel News Gingrich Vows Stronger Backing for Israel
Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich continued his concerted effort to court Jewish voters Friday and repeated his promise to support Israel more strongly. In a conference call with Jewish activists, organized by the National Council of Young Israel, Gingrich made clear Palestinians won’t have an easy time in Washington if he gets elected president. Gingrich said…
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News Gingrich and Adelson Forge Alliance
In the battle for the Republican pro-Israel vote, Newt Gingrich lacks Mitt Romney’s broad base of prominent Jewish donors. But he has something potentially more powerful: the support of one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s most significant American backers, and a relationship with the Israeli prime minister himself that stretches back decades. Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson,…
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Israel News Republicans Take Turns Bashing Obama
Republican presidential candidates took turns bashing President Obama’s record on Israel, as they made their pitch to Jewish Republican voters less than a month before the primary season kicks off. The message delivered to an audience of Jewish supporters by six of the Republican hopefuls (Ron Paul was not invited to the forum) in a…
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Fast Forward GOP Candidates Split on Iran Strike
The two-hour-long foreign policy debate between eight Republican presidential hopefuls at Constitution Hall in Washington – packed to capacity with local dignitaries and reporters, former officials and scholars – will probably be criticized by foreign policy experts on the things it didn?t focus enough on: the Arab spring, China, and seemingly deteriorating relations with Russia….
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Israel News Democrats Slam GOP Over ‘Zero’ Israel Aid
Democratic heavyweights hit back at Republicans over their debate discussion about ?zero-ing? U.S. aid to foreign countries, including Israel, during the weekend CBS News Republican debate. Smelling a chance to win back disaffected Jewish voters, former Congressman Mel Levine penned an article in Israel?s Haaretz daily blasting the idea, and Democratic National Committee chair Debbie…
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Food Food Fight: Food Policy and the 2012 Election
With the next Presidential election a year away and the new Farm Bill scheduled to move through Congress in 2012, it is time to take stock of President Obama’s record on food policy, and to see what the Republican presidential candidates have said and done so far on the subject. We are well passed those…
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Opinion Pernicious Attempt To Brand Protest as Anti-Semitic
Is the Jewish congressional representative from heavily Jewish Long Island, Steve Israel, “standing with those calling for the killing of Jews”? Does the Jewish representative from heavily Jewish Florida, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, “agree with various calls for Jews to be ‘run out of the country’ and to oppose and ‘destroy’ the State of Israel”? Sean…
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Israel News Rick Perry Wins Over Right-Wing Jews
It could have been an awkward moment even for a seasoned politician like Texas Governor Rick Perry. Surrounded by a group of Orthodox rabbis in black hats and black suits during a Hanukkah ceremony at the Texas State Capitol, Perry, now a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, was swept into a hora dance,…
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