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Bashing AIPAC, Peter Beinart Takes On Unswerving Zionist Zeal
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyThere was a time when to be young, Jewish and affiliated in the United States was also to be unequivocally, passionately, unapologetically Zionist. A zeal for the State of Israel went hand in hand with Jewish identity in the post-war era -- especially the post-Six Day War era. Israel was David and the Arab world was Goliath and only by the grace of God and our donations of money and military assistance did Israel continue as a sheltering home, an ingathering of the exiles, a place, finally, for the Jews of the world to cease their wandering and find a home. Even those of us born in the 1970s ...
Mutual Mending as Netanyahu Comes to Washington
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 22) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit here is being marked by a conciliatory speech today by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a dinner tonight with Vice President Joe Biden and a meeting Tuesday with President Barack Obama. The agenda alone is a sign that the U.S. and Israel are trying to put the recent crisis over Israeli housing construction in East Jerusalem behind them, even if there is minimal substantive change in their positions on that issue. Netanyahu is in Washington for the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, ...
Pro-Israel Lobby Is Gaining Traction in the U.K.
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyWell, it would appear that the so-called "Israel lobby" isn't just a Washington phenomenon. On Monday, British television's Channel Four aired a one-hour exposé revealing the pervasive influence of the pro-Israel lobby in the highest realms of British politics and media. The documentary's producers were motivated by the belief that this powerful lobby had been inadequately studied, even ignored, by Britain's mainstream press. And so they set out to explore the financial, political and journalistic means by which this group exerts its influence. ...
Hamas 'Unendorses' Obama
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFor John McCain, it was a favorite staple of the campaign trail:"I think it is very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States."This assertion was based on an interview that a Hamas spokesman, Ahmed Yousef, gave to ABC in which he said:"Actually, we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will [win] the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle."Well, unfortunately for McCain, Hamas has now officially un-endorsed Obama after hearing the candidate's speech at AIPAC. Among other things, Obama suggested the Jerusalem should remain the undivided ...
Clinton Pivots at AIPAC
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThis is the closest we've come to concession. She just said "It has been an honor to contest these primaries with him. It is an honor to call him my friend, and let me be very clear--I know Senator Obama will be a good friend to Israel."also"I know Senator Obama understands what is at stake here."also"We need a Democrat in the White House next January."also"McCain will continue the failed policies of George Bush."andEchoing Obama's speech last night, she adds, "We must seize this moment." She is finally making the pivot and is signaling her support of Obama. ...
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