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Israeli settlers in the West Bank have rejected President Obama's May 22nd remarks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, stressing that Israel's control over the Jordan...
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Middle East,
News
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Hebrew-language newspapers in Israel have launched a strong attack on Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the annual conference of the leading Israeli lobby group in the United States. The Israeli...
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Middle East,
News
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Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Monday that he does not have any information about an EU plan for moving forward Palestine-Israel negotiations. No plan, he insisted, has...
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Middle East,
News
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The London-based Al Hayah newspaper reported from Jerusalem on April 22 that during his first statement upon arrival in Israel, US Defence Minister, Chuck Hagel, announced that his country's...
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Middle East,
News
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A senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has voiced expectations that the Boston Marathon attacks will strengthen American support for Israel, Israeli newspaper Haaretz said on Monday....
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Middle East,
News
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Yedioth Ahronoth, the Israeli newspaper, has reported that "Israel and the Israeli lobby in the United States have spent intense efforts to urge the US Congress to reject the...
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Middle East,
News
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In response to the Obama Administration's announcement last week that it will be restructuring US military aid to Egypt in light of the ongoing military crackdown, officials in Cairo...
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Africa,
News
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An official at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has warned that the Arab Spring revolutions might lead to the emergence of "regimes that are hostile towards the...
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At a time of serious economic crisis in America, the US government has allocated $220 million to Israel for its "Iron Dome" missile defence system. Documents linked to the...
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The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, expressed its full support for U.S. President Barack Obama's decisions on Syria. The committee demanded in a statement, that members of the...
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Earlier this month The Hill, a political newspaper based in Washington DC, announced that Egypt's interim authorities had hired a lobby firm to bolster its image after the US...
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Historically the US political and media mainstream has often dismissed those who are critical of Israeli policies as anti-Semitic, making it difficult for solidarity activists, including Jewish Americans, to...
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Activism,
Article
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When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington two years ago, the US Congress gave him 29 standing ovations, four more than they had given to President Obama...
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Activism,
Article
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While France and Russia are busy engaging in last minute diplomacy to prevent a US strike against Syria, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is deploying hundreds of...
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It is widely known that Israel and its allies spend millions of dollars to promote Zionism on college and university campuses across the US. Zionist organisations fund student groups...
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Activism,
Article
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January 30, 2014
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Asa Winstanley
A poll of American Jews published by Pew Research this week had a headline finding that many will perhaps find surprising: "Jews' feelings for Israel are equaled or even exceeded...
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Article,
Inquiry
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January 28, 2014
Janet McMahon
One could be forgiven for thinking that the last three letters of AIPAC stand for "political action committee." But since the American Israel Public Affairs Committee does not itself...
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Edward Said's scholarly work on Western media coverage of Muslim and Arab countries showed that it has been shaped by discreet cultural biases or political motives. This fact couldn't...
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January 28, 2014
Saeed Eraikat
Anti-Hagel groups in Washington are doing all they can to block Barack Obama's nominee for the post of Secretary of Defence, Chuck Hagel. The anti-Hagel alliance, led from behind...
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January 25, 2014
Dr. Franklin Lamb
The number of Israelis thinking of leaving Palestine is climbing rapidly according to researchers, while many more, with actual millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing, prepare to exercise...
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January 25, 2014
Maidhc Ó Cathail
The Israeli-Occupied hearing on alleged Iranian terror In the wake of the much-heralded FBI sting that supposedly foiled a dastardly plot by Iran's Revolutionary Guard elite Qods Force –...
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January 25, 2014
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Jamal Kanj
Pre-empting Mitt Romney's campaign visit to Israel, President Barack Obama last Friday signed the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Co-operation Act of 2012. The bill was drafted by the American...
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January 25, 2014
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Jamal Kanj
LAST August I predicted that as the US election drew closer, and as the President's re-election became certain, a credible scenario would be for Israel to strike Iran, pre-empting...
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January 25, 2014
Laura Stuart
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is North America's most vociferous pro-Israel lobby group. This week Alan Mendoza of Britain's Henry Jackson Society offered an interesting glimpse into...
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January 24, 2014
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Jamal Kanj
FAILING to agree on ways to reduce the deficit, the US president was forced earlier this month to enact the Budget Control Act (BCA) into law. The debt ceiling...
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January 24, 2014
Zaki Bani Rsheid
Perhaps the Jordanian regime believed it had escaped from the bottleneck and survived the reform process that has swept the Arab region acting as an inevitable fate that can...