Ori Nir
By Ori Nir
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Israel News Pol Takes Name off Resolution
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi this past Wednesday pulled her co-sponsorship of a bipartisan resolution on the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, because Republican House leaders refused to include language in the statement calling on all sides to minimize civilian casualties. For the past week, Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives…
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News Turkish Official Gets Earful Over Hamas
WASHINGTON — Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and several Jewish organizations locked horns last week over his country’s relations with Hamas. During what participants described as an otherwise friendly meeting, Gul told a small group of foreign-policy experts with American Jewish groups that Turkey was disappointed over the Jewish community’s failure to support Ankara’s efforts…
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News U.S. Envoys Push Diplomatic Dialogue
WASHINGTON – After essentially sitting on the sidelines as it observed the escalating violence between Israelis and Palestinians, the Bush administration this week moved to contain the deterioration, sending two of its top diplomats to the region and receiving assurances from Israel that its aim is not to bring about the collapse of the Palestinian…
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News U.S. Seen Backing Israeli Moves To Topple Hamas
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration appears to have dropped any objections to Israeli efforts to topple the Palestinian Authority’s democratically elected Hamas government. Israel’s security Cabinet on Wednesday authorized the Israeli military to broaden its actions in Gaza and further target Hamas, the terrorist organization that won January’s Palestinian elections and has claimed responsibility for…
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News Iowa Pol: I Said Holocaust, Not the Holocaust
WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman from Iowa alleges that the Anti-Defamation League defamed him over claims that he compared illegal immigrants to Nazis. The ADL has been highly critical of a May 27 speech delivered by Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican, in which he argued that illegal immigrants have killed many more Americans since…
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News D.C. Showdown Expected on Hamas Bill
WASHINGTON — As House and Senate negotiators prepare to hammer out a final version of a bill designed to isolate Hamas and to prevent American dollars from strengthening the Palestinian terrorist organization, Jewish groups are lining up on opposite sides of the fight. Jewish organizations are making one last lobbying push as members of both…
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News Israel Threatens Syria Over Gaza Crisis
WASHINGTON — Israel is pointing a menacing finger at a Damascus-based Hamas leader and Syrian officials who continue to grant him sanctuary, claiming that they are responsible for the recent kidnapping of an Israeli soldier and for the escalating crisis in Gaza. Israeli officials insist that from his base of operations in Syria, the Hamas…
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News Worries Build As GOP Seen Pushing Bills To Rally Base
WASHINGTON — In the face of Republican efforts in Congress to rally the party’s conservative base, Jewish organizations are stepping up efforts to push liberal positions on several legislative fronts. With fewer than 50 workdays left in the 109th Congress, and lawmakers increasingly focused on November’s midterm elections, Capitol Hill’s Republican leadership is moving up…
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