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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 ...
George Mitchell Lays Groundwork as Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Talks
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyIf there were no conflict, Ramallah and Jerusalem would be considered neighboring towns. By car, they lie only 16 miles apart; even fewer as the crow flies. The distance might as well be an ocean. Former Sen. George Mitchell must be tired. He's swum this ocean's length already, dozens of times. Over the last weeks Mitchell, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, a diplomat decorated for his role in the Northern Ireland peace process, has shuttled back and forth between Jerusalem and Ramallah, working to lay the groundwork allowing mediated talks to begin between Israeli Prime ...
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. ...
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