haaretz.com - 29 days ago
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The alliance between Israel and the United States is unbreakable, U.S. President Barack Obama will tell Israelis at a memorial ceremony for former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin on Saturday night. Obama will make the comments in a videotaped message in which he also will pledge that U.S. support ...
haaretz.com - 25 days ago
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haaretz.com —
Barack Obama has been busy - offering the
Jewish People blessings for Rosh Hashanah, and recording a...
flattering video for the President's Conference in Jerusalem and another for Yitzhak Rabin's memorial rally. Only Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah surpasses ...
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America, stop sucking up to Israel
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 28 days ago
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I'm telling people who are worried about the
hijinks at the unofficial J Street bloggers' panel not...
to become overly bothered by it; it was a clownish event, and the people on the panel were marginal figures except in the rather circumscribed ...
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'Israel's Self
volokh.com - 28 days ago
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volokh.com —
The mystery of just what JStreet is, or
intends to be, is growing deeper. “The party and...
the viewpoint that we’re closest to in Israeli politics is actually Kadima,” JStreet’s founder Jeremy Ben-Ami told the Jerusalem Post . (Hat tip: Ilya) You ...
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JStreet–The American Kadima?
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Obama to Send Video to Rabin Memorial
NJDC Blog —
... between Israelis and Palestinians. Ha’Aretz also reports that Obama will tell Israelis that “the alliance between Israel and the United States is unbreakable,” which is fitting given Rabin’s prominent role in cementing the ...
Dear Rahm: Barack Obama and Yitzhak Rabin, The Link That Will Not Help
The New Republic blogs —
... up this space not because I wanted to write about Yitzhak Rabin. But because I wanted to write about the notion that Barack Obama and his people (these are the Obami, a word I have shamelessly stolen from the very gifted Jennifer Rubin at Contentions) have that the best way they have to getting to the people of Israel, whose alienation from them it is evident they grasp, is through linking themselves to the assassinated prime minister. Two articles in Ha'aretz --both on October 29, " Obama to tell Rabin memorial: US-Israel is unbreakable "; and " ...
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