Jared Kushner’s ongoing troubles grew over this past weekend: Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s plea deal turned Kushner into the likely next target of the Russia probe, and news broke that Kushner had orchestrated the Trump transition team’s efforts to scuttle a United Nations Security Council vote that the Obama administration refused to block….
David Friedman, a top adviser to President-elect Trump on Israel, has pledged not to meet the dovish group J Street if he is appointed U.S. ambassador to Israel. He spoke Sunday in a closed-door panel discussion held by the Saban Forum in Washington. J Street’s president Jeremy Ben-Ami was there. He responded on Twitter: Lord…
“I used to have a standing as a cartoon schlepper, now I’m only a former cartoon schlepper.” This is how media mogul Haim Saban chose to describe himself when interviewing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday afternoon. Needless to say, the self-deprecating description has little to do with reality. The Israeli-American billionaire is one of…
At a recent Haaretz side session at the Jewish Federations’ General Assembly, I hosted Peter Beinart for a conversation entitled “Israelis are from Mars, American Jews are from Venus.” A month later, our colorful caption was fully borne out by the 2015 Saban Forum, which highlighted the great gap between large parts of the American Jewish…
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Sunday she would take the relationship between the U.S. and Israel “to the next level,” but warned that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would not be enough to stabilize the entire region. “I would extend an invitation to the Israeli prime minister to come to the United States,” Clinton said…
In one telling moment, the Jewish state’s rising right-wing star and the Democratic Party’s most prominent pro-Israel donor demonstrated just how deep the coming gap may be between Israel and its closest ally. Haim Saban, a key backer of Hillary Clinton who grew up in Israel and launched his career there, wanted to know how,…
It takes plenty of chutzpah to tell an audience made up of American and Israeli political insiders and diplomats who have devoted their careers to promoting a two-state solution that they know nothing about how the Middle East works. But that is pretty much what Israel’s rising right-wing star Naftali Bennett did on Saturday night….
President Obama and Haim Saban, Washington, D.C., December 7 / Getty Images Tempers are wearing thin both in Washington and Jerusalem over continuing disagreements on the Iran nuclear talks and the U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. And the situation wasn’t helped by last weekend’s Saban Forum in Washington. The three-day forum, sponsored by the Brookings Institution,…
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