Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
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News Top Middle East Scholar Protests Pipes Appointment
WASHINGTON — A top Middle East scholar is suspending his ties with the United States Institute of Peace to protest the recent appointment of Daniel Pipes to the board of the federally funded think tank, sparking fears of a wider boycott. Former presidential adviser William Quandt told the Forward that he is suspending work on…
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News White House Plans Renewed Mideast Peace Push
WASHINGTON — Even as the White House pledges to salvage the Middle East peace process, administration officials are rejecting more aggressive steps being advocated by some lawmakers and former American diplomats, including the use of American troops. The effort to step up American peace-making efforts follows what critics panned as a timid administration response to…
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News Faith-Based Prison Program’s Success Questioned
WASHINGTON — A recent study that was widely presented as documenting the success of an all-Christian rehabilitation program in a Texas state prison — and serving as proof that the Bush administration-backed programs should be expanded — actually shows that the program is a failure. The two-year study (2000-2002), published jointly by the University of…
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News Study Urges Investment in Arab Schools
WASHINGTON — Education is the key to liberalizing and stabilizing Arab countries, according to a new study that recommends that the United States invest money to help develop high-quality, secular schools in the Middle East. The study, “The Youth Factor,” was published by the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Washington’s Brookings Institution, and…
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News Task Force Faults Bush Budget Cuts For Rising Poverty
WASHINGTON — A national task force on poverty, set up in June by a coalition of major Jewish groups, is calling for community action to “raise public awareness” of how federal budget cuts are affecting health and social service programs “and the people they serve” — but stops short of proposing a plan to lobby…
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News Bush Eases Pressure on Both Sides Over Peace Plan
WASHINGTON — Seeking to prevent the unraveling of its so-called “road map” to Israeli-Palestinian peace, the Bush administration is scaling back its demands on each side in hopes of making it easier for each of them to comply. The apparent aim is to ease domestic political pressures on the leaders, as well as to defuse…
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News Abbas, Jewish Leaders Talk About Peace
WASHINGTON — A meeting between Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and about 50 Jewish community leaders in Washington last week left most of the activists convinced of Abbas’s commitment to peace. The meeting also underscored the growing support for President Bush’s Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative among the Jewish community and the growing influence, in the community,…
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News Lobbyists Quiet Before White House Visits
WASHINGTON — On the eve of back-to-back White House visits by the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers, and with pressure mounting for Israeli gestures to strengthen the Palestinian leader, Washington lobbyists for Israel were keeping an uncharacteristically low profile this week. With a handful of exceptions on the right and left, lobbyists for Israel were…
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