jpost.com - 10/25/2009
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After security forces clashed on Sunday with Muslim rioters on the Temple Mount and elsewhere in east Jerusalem, police blamed Hamas and the Islamic Movement for once again inciting Israel's Arab population to violence in the capital. "Throughout the day, very large groups of Arab residents of ...
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 10/23/2009
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jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com —
Jeremy Ben-Ami of the liberal lobbying group J
Street is the man of the moment: The group's...
upcoming conference in Washington has become a source of great controversy for many reasons . I interviewed Ben-Ami yesterday by telephone, and here is an ...
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Ami On Zionism and Military Aid to Israel
weeklystandard.com - 10/27/2009
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weeklystandard.com —
I made my way over to the J
Street conference today to see for myself just how...
"pro-peace, pro-Israel" the organization really is, and there can be no doubt, J Street is pro-peace. But while the leadership of J Street may be pro-Israel, the ...
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The Space Between Pro-Israel and Anti-Israel
volokh.com - 10/26/2009
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volokh.com —
JStreet , which bills itself as a “pro-peace,
pro-Israel” lobby, and aims to be a progressive counterpart...
to AIPAC, is having its convention starting tomorrow. Unlike some in the pro-Israel community, I’m not hostile to JStreet. First, I know one of ...
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Some Friendly (Really) Advice to JStreet
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INSPECTORS IN IRAN; JERUSALEM RIOTS - CONNECTED? YOU BETCHYA!
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JPOST: UN inspectors got their first look Sunday inside a once-secret uranium enrichment facility that has raised Western suspicions about the extent of Iran's nuclear program. The semiofficial Mehr news agency reported the four-member team visited the heavily protected facility, carved into a mountainside south of Teheran. The tour marked the first independent examination of the site, but no results were expected until after the inspectors leave Iran later this week. JPOST: Nine police officers and a foreign reporter were lightly wounded Sunday during clashes ...
Shocker: Hamas inciting Jerusalem riots
Jihad Watch —
... But...but...they really, really want peace! "Hamas accused of inciting J'lem riots," from the Jerusalem Post, October 25 (thanks to Maxwell): ...
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