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Christina Wilkie

GOP Candidates Face High Stakes At Jewish Event

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 12.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Each of the three top Republican presidential contenders will have the opportunity Wednesday to clarify or walk back recent controversia...

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It's Not Israel's Critics Who Are Anti-Israel

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 01.06.2012

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MJ Rosenberg

Nothing I wrote above is anti-Israel. On the contrary, it is precisely because I want Israel to exist in peace and security that I oppose the occupation.

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Joshua Hersh

Palestinian UNESCO Bid Sets Up Clash Between Hollywood And Israel Lobbies

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 01.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Pro-Israel interests on Capitol Hill may be about to run afoul of the nearly equally powerful lobbyists of Hollywood and Silicon Valley,...

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Why the Jewish Right Is Terrified by J Street's Conference

Dan Fleshler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, J Street, American Jews, Israel Lobby, Palestinians, Aipac, Politics News
Dan Fleshler

American Jews, evidently, are not supposed to listen to Arabs who are unhappy with Israel, or to people with different narratives and perspectives than those of the pro-Israel community.

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Conspiracy Theories, Anti-Semitism, and the Delegitimization of Israel

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Middle East, Conspiracy Theories, Abe Foxman, Adl, Anti-Defamation League, Israel, Wikileaks, John Mearsheimer Stephen Walt Israel Paper, Israel Lobby, John Mearsheimer, Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, World News
Abraham H. Foxman

We are living at a time when conspiracy theories are flourishing. And when conspiracy theories are broadly popular they almost inevitably end up focusing on Jews.

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Netanyahu Sticks it to the United States...Again and Again

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Netanyahu, Israel, Aipac, Israel Lobby, World News
MJ Rosenberg

The US demand that the Israeli settlement insanity stop now. The Israeli government needs to learn that even in a political system governed by campaign contributions, there are limits. Aren't there?

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CNN's Octavia Nasr: Another Victim of America's Thought Police

Abbas Barzegar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Abbas Barzegar

For most outsiders Ayatollah Fadlallah was just another bearded Muslim priest warped in from the medieval period hell bent on destroying western civilization. For Middle East insiders he was a moderating force.

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The One-State Non-Solution

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, Palestine, Israel, Haaretz, Yugoslavia, Israel Lobby, John Mearsheimer, World News
Leon T. Hadar

The right analogy for Israel-Palestine is not South Africa but the wars of succession in the former Yugoslavia that concluded with very messy territorial compromises imposed by outside powers.

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It Takes Two Sides to Achieve Two States, or Why Mearsheimer Is Wrong on Israel

David Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Harris

If John Mearsheimer actually cares a whit about Israel, why does he admire so many people who want it to disappear?

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The Evolution of Jeff Goldberg: From Prison Guard in the West Bank to Lobby Poster Boy

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Goldberg, Palestine, Israel, Aipac, Media, Israel Lobby, John-Mearsheimer-Stephen-Walt-Israel-Paper, World News
MJ Rosenberg

I am not going to deconstruct a Goldberg column. His biography tells you everything you need to know about him. The sad thing is that he is only 45. Imagine how ethnocentric and terrified he will be at 60.

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Alan Dershowitz Is Wrong

Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeremy Ben-Ami

Alan, what did you mean when you said J Street had "gone over to the dark side"? That those who don't think ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a U.S. national security interest are the forces of light?

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J Street Can No Longer Claim to Be Pro Israel

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alan Dershowitz

J Street has gone over to the dark side. It claims to be "a pro-Israel, pro peace lobby." It has now become neither.

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Tony Judt's Trojan Gift Horse

Andrew Pessin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Pessin

Tony Judt advertises himself as offering a discussion of Israel "without clichés." But this generous offer is, clearly, one gift horse whose mouth should be looked into.

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The Coming Iran War

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Israel Lobby, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Neoconservatives Iran, World News
MJ Rosenberg

It's happening again. The same forces -- with a few new additions and minus a few smart defectors -- who pushed the U.S. into a needless and deadly war with Iraq are now organizing for the next one.

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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Failure of the U.S. Peace Organizations

Jerome Slater | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jerome Slater

It is true that a more critical and vigorous dissent on the part of APN and J Street risks backfiring, and there might be something to be said for a strategy that was only a little to the left of the consensus -- but only providing it was working.

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Israel Lobby Gets Congress to Stick It to Turkey

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Israel, Aipac, Gaza, Armenian Genocide, Israel Lobby, Danny Ayalon, Howard Berman, Politics News
MJ Rosenberg

If the Armenian resolution passes both houses and goes into effect, it will not be out of some newfound compassion for the victims of the Armenian genocide, but to send a message to Turkey.

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Dispatch from J Street

Antony Loewenstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Antony Loewenstein

J Street must decide what it wants to be -- a wide tent that allows all Jewish opinions on Israel or an orthodoxy that pushes only conventional platitudes -- but the Palestinians don't have time to wait.

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J Street's Shameful Attacks on Aipac

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The left-wing Israeli lobby J Street's cheap tactics of creating its name by attacking Aipac, the ADL, and the ZOA is shameful. There's room in the Jewish community for many voices without creating a civil war.

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J Street: The New Israel Lobby

New York Times | JAMES TRAUB | Posted 05.25.2011

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In July, President Obama met for 45 minutes with leaders of American Jewish organizations. All presidents meet with Israel's advocates. Obama, however...

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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Israel Lobby?

Dan Fleshler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Fleshler

Obama must decide if he is willing to press both Israelis and Palestinians to stop taking steps that will preclude the possibility of peace.

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J Street Threatens AIPAC Because Of 'Generational Anxiety:' Ezra Klein

The American Prospect | Ezra Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Besser asks why the major Jewish groups have responded to J Street with so much more fury and fear than, say, the formation of Americans for Pea...

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Why the Silence When AIPAC is Attacked?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Last week Chas Freeman, who was nominated to be the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, was forced to withdraw from consideration because o...

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan: Yet Another Path to Failure Facts: Pakistan's government arrests hundreds of "dissidents" includi...

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Jason Linkins

Washington Post Is Of Mixed Mind On The Matter Of Chas Freeman

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Washington Post finds itself in a state of paradox on a single issue, if you compare the words of its reporter to the words of its editor.

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While Gaza Burns, the World Watches

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Margolis

Unless Israel can make five to seven million Palestinians disappear, it must find some way to co-exist with them. Israeli leaders on the center and right continue to avoid facing this fact.

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