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Breaking News AIPAC Caves on Iran Sanctions Push
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee backed away from pressing for passage of an Iran sanctions bill at this time. In a speech Thursday on the Senate floor, sponsor Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said dealing with Iran deserved “a spirit of bipartisanship and unity,” and rejected bids to make it a partisan issue. “I hope…
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Opinion AIPAC Lost Iran Sanctions Battle — Not War
Sanctions bill sponsor Sen. Robert Menendez addresses AIPAC annual policy conference, Washington Convention Center, March 5, 2013 / Getty Images Efforts to pass a new Iran sanctions bill have not only stalled in the Senate, but appear to be slowing even in the House. Perhaps predictably, given the focus on AIPAC as the primary driver…
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Breaking News President Obama Threatens Iran Sanctions Veto in State of Union
President Obama talked up Mideast peace talks and warned Congress he would veto any Iran sanctions bill during a State of the Union address that mostly focused on domestic issues. He said the goal of the “difficult” negotiations between Palestinians and Israel is “lasting peace and security for the State of Israel – a Jewish…
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Breaking News Netanyahu: Interim Deal Set Iran’s Nuclear Drive Back By Just 6 Weeks
An international deal capping Iran’s nuclear work set the program back by just six weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, accusing Tehran of using the hiatus to hone technologies with bomb-making potential. Iran this month began implementing the interim nuclear accord it clinched with world powers in Geneva in November, and which…
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Breaking News Israeli Anti-Zionist Sentenced for Spying for Iran
A member of the anti-Zionist haredi Orthodox Neturei Karta sect who offered to spy for Iran was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison under a plea bargain. The Jerusalem District Court approved the sentence on Tuesday. Yitzhak Bergil, 47, was arrested by the Shin Bet security service and Israeli police in July. He was charged…
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Culture When a Sentence Is Cruel and Unusually Long
An article on the Iranian nuclear program in the online paper the Washington Free Beacon tells of a reporter who asked a “senior administration official” about last November’s “Joint Plan of Action” agreement in Geneva. Did it, he inquired, prohibit the Iranians from designing new models of centrifuges? The answer received was: “We, designing is…
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Opinion Jewish Senate Iran Sanctions (Fuzzy) Math
Want to know who stands where on Iran sanctions? We’ve got the answer — at least for the 10 Jewish senators. Of course, it’s never quite that simple. See below for the fine print. Senators who had signed on as co-sponsors are listed as supporters of the bill. Senators who have spoken out publicly against…
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Opinion Do Jewish Voices Count More on Israel and Iran?
Sanctions bill sponsor Sen. Robert Menendez addresses AIPAC annual policy conference, Washington Convention Center, March 5, 2013. / Getty Images In American politics, do Jewish voices count more on Israel than others? Should they? And who’s counting? UCLA professor Mark Kleiman, for one, who called on his Washington Monthly blog for readers to lobby their…
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