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Top Netanyahu Adviser set to become Israel’s next US Ambassador

From On December 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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While Chuck Hagel is twisting in the wind, being savaged by the Emergency Committee for Israel and other “pro-Israel” organizations, Israels’ Prime Minister is contemplating making a neoconservative American-born GOP operative Israel’s next ambassador to the United States.

Ariel Kahan, the diplomatic correspondent of the conservative and religiously orthodox [...]

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Netanyahu is using his Iraq script for Iran

From On October 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Haaretz reporter Barak Ravid references Jim Lobe’s widely read article about Bibi Netanyahu’s testimony to Congress on Iraq one year prior to the US-led war in 2003. In sum, the Israeli Prime Minister seems to be reading from the same old script:

A video clip [...]

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Israeli PM Launches Verbal Attack on US

From On September 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marked Sept. 11 with “an unprecedented verbal attack on the U.S. government,” according to Barak Ravid ofHaaretz.

Netanyahu told reporters on Tuesday that “Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to [...]

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On the RJC’s Drive to get Romney votes from Israel: Block the vote here, rock the vote there!

From On July 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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This week Mitt Romney raised British eyebrows — and hackles — with several gaffes that undermined the objective of his trip to London: to boost his limited to nonexistent foreign policy credentials.

Romney “must wish he was already on the next stop of his foreign tour, in Jerusalem, where [...]

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