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A conversation with presidential son-in-law/senior adviser Jared Kushner left a senior European diplomat frightened because of Kushner’s foreign policy views, Politico reported. The report cited a “leading European official who came to town last January looking for answers” about what the newly-elected President Trump’s foreign policy would look like. The diplomat said that Kushner, who…
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Forverts in English In Defense of Israeli Ambassador to Poland Anna Azari
To the Editor: It was quite astonishing to read Jacob Weitzner’s criticism of the work of Israeli Ambassador to Poland Anna Azari in “The Israeli Embassy in Poland Can do More to Win Friends for Israel” (July 26, 2017). His judgement of her performance is neither fair nor complete. Ambassador Azari not only participates in…
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Fast Forward South Africa May Downgrade Ties With Israel Over Palestinian Issue
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party is calling for the downgrading of the country’s embassy in Israel to signal displeasure with the occupation of the Palestinian territories. The move would “send a strong message about Israel’s continued illegal occupation of Palestine and the continued human rights abuses against the peoples of Palestine,” read a…
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Opinion How The Qatar Crisis Could Wreck Years Of Quiet Diplomacy— And Hurt Israel
There are three ways to explain the recent crisis that suddenly erupted in the Sunni Arab world when Saudi Arabia and a group of allies abruptly broke relations with the oil-rich Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar. One explanation is strategic: that the rift is a Saudi-led bid to rein in the maverick Qatar, end Qatar’s…
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Opinion Dear Europe: 3 Things You Should Know About Jared, Trump — And Us
Dear Europe: I fear that you, our European allies, are getting the wrong impression of the United States, or at least of Americans. We are not all like our current president, who seems more at home with autocratic, gilded Middle East royalty than with duly elected leaders of friendly democracies. Donald Trump himself tweeted that…
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