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Breaking News Alan Gross Makes Personal Appeal to President Obama In a Letter
A U.S. government contractor jailed for four years in Cuba appealed to President Barack Obama on Tuesday to take any steps necessary to secure his release. “Why am I still here? With the utmost respect, Mr. President, I fear that my government – the very government I was serving when I began this nightmare –…
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Opinion A Conspicuous Silence in Congress
If there is one so-far unexplained mystery about the agreement with the mullahs in Iran, it is this: Why are Senate Democrats so silent? This is, after all, President Obama’s biggest diplomatic overture ever. Right or wrong, nothing else he does overseas will be remembered or noted with as much attention. Normally, a party’s leadership…
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Opinion In Reaction to Iran Deal, a Clash of Worldviews
In recent days, the Israeli and American media have been full of talk about a crisis in relations between the two countries — and, more specifically, between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two governments are at loggerheads over the first stage of a nuclear agreement the United States and five other…
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Opinion Obama’s Thanksgivukkah Greeting Has Different Meaning for Israelis
(JTA) President Obama, always up on the latest Jewish internet fads, sent out an official Thanksgivukkah greeting yesterday: “For the first time since the late 1800s – and for the last time until some 70,000 years from now – the first day of Hanukkah falls on Thanksgiving. It’s an event so rare some have even…
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Breaking News Barack Obama Touts Thanksgivukkah in Holiday Message
In his annual statement for Hanukkah, President Obama pointed out how rare it is to have the holiday and Thanksgiving fall together. He even used the recently coined term “Thanksgivukkah” in the statement released on Wednesday. “As the first Hanukkah candle is lit, we are reminded that our task is not only to secure the…
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Opinion Was Valerie Jarrett Obama’s Secret Iran Link?
That bombshell Associated Press report on Sunday about the months of secret U.S.-Iranian talks that led up to the Geneva agreement has added whole new layers of mystery and intrigue, not to mention venom, to the news of the nuclear agreement itself. What’s fascinating is how much isn’t being said. The story was first broken…
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Breaking News Barack Obama Blasts Critics of Iran Deal
President Barack Obama took on critics of a newly brokered nuclear deal with Iran on Monday by saying tough talk was good for politics but not good for U.S. security. Top Republicans – as well as U.S. ally Israel – have criticized Obama for agreeing to the deal, which the United States and its partners…
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Opinion Right-Wing Dead Enders Block Peoples Business — in D.C. and Jerusalem
This November found lawmakers in Washington and Jerusalem caught up in a matched pair of high-profile disputes, unrelated but remarkably similar, that showcase the sort of right-wing extremism snarling the people’s business in the two capitals. In both cases, conservative lawmakers were out to block high-level appointments in the justice system. In both cases, conservatives…
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