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Fast Forward Trump Trades Jerusalem Triumph For Hanukkah Clichés At White House Party
(JTA) — President Donald Trump celebrated his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital at the White House Hanukkah Reception. This year’s event came one day after Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and directed the State Department to prepare for moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — a campaign that both…
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Opinion Will The Flynn-Kushner-Israel Sideshow Hurt American Jews?
Because he’s playing three-dimensional chess, it’s easy to forget what special prosecutor Robert Mueller is really after. He’s investigating the suspicion that the Donald Trump for President campaign actively colluded with Russia in its effort to undermine the election. Everything else is secondary to that investigation. Anyone incidentally run over by that train is just…
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Opinion Jared Kushner Was Wrong To Undermine America — Even To Help Israel
I am not certain which is more troubling: reading reports that Jared Kushner — before he became the most powerful Jew in the White House, when he was just the president-elect’s powerful son-in-law — secretly worked to persuade Russia to defy the Obama administration and stop a United Nations resolution condemning Israel for its settlement…
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Fast Forward Kushner Didn’t Disclose Running Foundation That Funded Settlement Projects
(JTA) — Jared Kushner did not disclose on government filings his position as a director of a family foundation that funded projects in West Bank settlements. Kushner’s position as co-director of the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation from 2006 to 2015, when the foundation donated at least $38,000 to the building of a Jewish seminary…
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Opinion Trump Is Waging War On The Peace Process
In the days after his election, President Donald Trump bragged that he would achieve “the ultimate deal” for Israelis and Palestinians. But on the ground, his Administration has been supporting an ultimate war on the peace process. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law who has been charged with overseeing Middle East peace, has been unforthcoming with details….
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Fast Forward Did Ron Dermer Get Jared Kushner In Trouble?
Could the source of trouble now shaking Trump’s inner circle be the Israeli ambassador to the United States? On Friday, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI on two conversations he had with Russia’s ambassador to Washington Sergey Kislyak. In one of them, Flynn asked the Russians to help…
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News Kushner Talks Much, Says Little At Israel Forum In First Event Since Flynn Plea
Jared Kushner’s ongoing troubles grew over this past weekend: Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s plea deal turned Kushner into the likely next target of the Russia probe, and news broke that Kushner had orchestrated the Trump transition team’s efforts to scuttle a United Nations Security Council vote that the Obama administration refused to block….
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Opinion Was Kushner Doing the Right Thing?
Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia took a surprising turn on Friday — to Israel. Anonymous White House sources claimed that Jared Kushner was the unnamed Trump transition member who sent the former national security adviser Michael Flynn to talk to the Russian ambassador and other foreign diplomats about a…
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