Amir Tibon (Haaretz)
By Amir Tibon (Haaretz)
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News Prominent Jewish Donor To Israel Stopped At Airport Over ‘Palestine’ Pamphlet
A prominent Jewish-American philanthropist was delayed for security questioning at Ben-Gurion Airport this week after a pro-Palestinian pamphlet was found in his suitcase. The incident involving attorney Meyer Koplow took place on Sunday and has drawn strong criticism from the American-Jewish community in recent days. A senior Israeli official told Haaretz that the questioning took…
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Fast Forward Trump’s Middle East Peace Envoy Is Fighting With The Palestinian Ambassador
WASHINGTON – Ever since President Trump chose last year to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, his administration has had no official contacts with the Palestinian Authority. In the absence of official communication between the two sides, they have instead elected to argue with each other about their respective policies in the pages of…
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Fast Forward Israeli Spy Firm Denies Trump Team Hired Them To ‘Get Dirt’ On Obama Officials
Updated May 7 Israeli private intelligence company Black Cube strongly denied Sunday that it was hired by aides to President Trump to spy on former Obama administration officials. The denial comes a day after the British newspaper The Observer reported that an Israeli intelligence firm had been hired by Trump’s aides to spy on former…
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News Jared Kushner Is Architect Of Trump’s Daring Mideast Push — And It Could Backfire On Him Badly
On Sunday night, as President Trump was concluding a successful two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, the White House distributed a very rare press release: a statement attributed directly, “on the record”, to Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner. “The president asked us to plan a trip that would help unite the world against intolerance…
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Breaking News J Street Attacks Trump and David Friedman As Largest-Ever Conference Kicks Off
Over a thousand supporters of J Street gathered on Saturday night in Washington, D.C. for the left-wing Jewish group’s annual conference. On the opening night of a three-day event that J Street’s leaders say will be its largest gathering ever, with more than 3,500 expected participants, it was clear that 2017 is going to be…
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Breaking News Pro-Israel Democrats Cheer Tom Perez Election As DNC Chief
Tom Perez, the former Labor Secretary under President Obama who on Saturday became the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, doesn’t have much of a public record when it comes to Israel. He has spent most of his career dealing with economic and social issues, and under the Obama administration had very little input…
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