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Fast Forward Haim Saban ‘Disturbed’ by Obama Stance on Israel in Closing Days of Administration
The choir condemning President Obama’s decision to allow a United Nations Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements has gained an important reinforcement. Haim Saban, a top Democratic funder and a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, is speaking out against the Obama administration. “As a longstanding Democrat who has supported and defended President Obama…
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Opinion How Benjamin Netanyahu’s Dangerously Twisted Words Hide the Truth
Last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued two public statements. When the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution criticizing settlements, Netanyahu attacked it for not condemning Syria. When Secretary of State John Kerry defended the Obama administration’s decision to let the resolution pass, Netanyahu attacked him for not sufficiently condemning the Palestinians. In both…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Star Mordechai Ben David Uses Racist Slur Against Obama — Crowd Cheers
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Popular Hasidic singer Mordechai Ben David called President Barack Obama a “kushi,” a pejorative term for a black person, at a concert in Jerusalem. Ben David was performing a song about peace at the Dec. 29 concert when he told the audience: “Do you know when there will be peace? In a…
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Breaking News Obama Celebrates Jewish Survivor and Korean War Hero
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Among his last official acts, outgoing President Barack Obama has signed a bill affixing the name of Tibor Rubin to the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Long Beach, California. Rubin, a Hungarian-born child survivor of the Holocaust, had to wait 55 years until his valor in the Korean War was recognized with…
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News Trump’s Inaugural Rabbi: U.N. Resolution ‘Most Anti-Israel’ Event of 2016
The rabbi President-elect Donald Trump appointed to participate in his inauguration ceremony heads the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which claims the United Nations resolution condemning Israeli settlements is the most “anti-Semitic/anti-Israel” event of 2016. Rabbi Marvin Hier founded the center, named for the legendary Nazi hunter who died in 2005. “The most stunning 2016 UN attack…
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Opinion Actually, This UN Resolution Is Much Better Than 71 Others the U.S. Allowed To Pass
There’s not much that’s new or remarkable in that new resolution from the United Nations Security Council (text here) condemning Israel’s West Bank settlements as illegal. You might call that very fact remarkable — that the resolution is so unremarkable — given all the fuss the resolution has stirred up. Surely with all that smoke…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Seeks To Rally Israelis With No-Holds-Barred Attack on ‘Underhanded’ Obama
Benjamin Netanyahu has been unrelenting in his criticism of the Obama administration over what he condemned as its “shameful” decision not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a halt to Israeli settlement-building. But with the clock ticking down on Barack Obama’s presidency, a possibly more amenable Republican Donald Trump waiting in the…
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Opinion David Friedman’s Critics Are Wrong — Here’s Why
Is it possible to be too pro-Israel for some Jews? Apparently, it is – given the hyperventilated response to President-elect Trump’s nomination of David Friedman to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel. I understand that Friedman has made some remarks that do not comport with the views of many on the opposite end of…
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