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themoderatevoice.com - 3/13/2009
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I’m a little too late to the Chas Freeman dust up to add incremental value to the post-mortem . But the debate surrounding Mr. Freeman and his attitude toward Israel did force me — even as a consistently, instinctively pro-Israel observer — to ask: Is it ever appropriate to ...
thehill.com - 3/13/2009
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thehill.com —
Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
said pro-Israel lobby groups did not spur their opposition...
to Charles Freeman. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.), a senior member of the House intelligence panel, also denied that the American ...
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Lawmakers deny Freeman's Israel lobby charges
nytimes.com - 3/12/2009
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nytimes.com —
Charles W. Freeman Jr., a former ambassador to
Saudi Arabia, withdrew his name from consideration after a...
campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists. >
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Israel Stance Was Undoing of Nominee for Intelligence Post
haaretz.com - 3/11/2009
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haaretz.com —
U.S. President Barack Obama will not cut the
billions of dollars in military aid promised to Israel,...
a senior U.S. administration official said Wednesday. The $30 billion in aid promised to Israel over the next decade will not be harmed by the world ...
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U.S. official: Obama won't cut military aid to Israel - ...
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Perspective and Wording Matters When It Comes to Criticism of Israel
PoliGazette —
... In what I think is quite an excellent article, The Moderate Voice’s Pete Abel analyzes the reaction to one of the controversial statements has made about Israel in the past to one that former Israel Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami wrote in a book review last year. He makes some conclusions about the differing severity of criticism to the statements of Shlomo’s words (light) versus Freeman’s (heavy) (emph. mine): ...
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