Speech to AIPAC could give Netanyahu his out ��� Mondoweiss
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that despite the growing criticism both in Israel and the United States, he plans to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress to lobby against a nuclear deal with Iran, just as he went to. This after Obama explictly called out Bibi in his presser with Merkel today... I sometime think it is the sworn enemies of Israel and their obsessed focus on it that makes what is essentially a very, very small country look so big.
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Walking into the studio he was handed a printout of the edict just released by the supreme leader of Iran: ���I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses book, which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.
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Reminding would-be voters of Mr. Romneys two failed attempts at winning the presidency and Mr. Bushs support for the contentious ���common core��� education policy, Mr. Paul said: ���We heard at todays meeting between Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney in Utah.
John McCain: Benjamin Netanyahu should speak to the American people
John McCain said on Sunday the U.S. relationship with Israel has deteriorated and that ongoing talks with Iran over its development of nuclear weapons are not helping to ease built-up tensions. ���They are convinced that these negotiations with Iran will.
Forget about the speech, focus on Iran, AIPAC says
WASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus speech before Congress on Tuesday has spawned a bitter debate on two continents, but there was no apparent dissent at the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee .
MSNBCs Chris Hayes Rips AIPAC Apart - MWC News
Last night Chris Hayes, the very young, very brilliant, MSNBC reporter called out both AIPAC and the 16 Democrats backing its Iran war bill with a directness never before seen on that station or anywhere else on television.. The media is waking up to the AIPAC crusade to get us into a war with Iran. Last night Chris. Because, despite what AIPAC says, there is an inverse correlation between caring about Israel and strident support for some of its misguided policies.
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This intervention into U.S. politics is a different order of magnitude, coming on the heels of aggressive Israeli and AIPAC lobbying of Congress to enact new sanctions against Iran.. that would like to scuttle them. Iran and the P5+1 negotiation.
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���If there is an agreement that prevents Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability through diplomatic and peaceful means thats a major achievement for US diplomacy, and internationalism,��� said Alireza Nader, a senior policy analyst with the.
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Hawks in Congress, Republican and Democrat, worry about talks between Iran and the U.S., the United Kingdom, China, Russia, France, and Germany over the Iranian governments nuclear development program. Sens.. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin.
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Rices Speech at the AIPAC Conference - Council on.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave this speech at the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy (AIPAC) Conference on June 3, 2008. SECRETARY RICE: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Obamas AIPAC speech. Text as prepared for delivery.
Looking at all of you here today; seeing so many of you who care about peace.. unifying those states to recognize the threat of Iran and increase pressure on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment. It would mean full implementation of U.S. sanctions laws. And over the long term, it would mean a focused approach... At the risk of sounding like an apologist, Id say that Obamas AIPAC speech was something he had to do to stay on the road to the Whitehouse. He had to��.
Prime Minister Netanyahus Speech at AIPAC Policy.
But the line I want to draw today is the line between life and death, between right and wrong, between the blessings of a brilliant future and the curses of a dark past.. Iran says it has noting to hide. So why does it ban inspectors from its secret military sites? Why doesnt it divulge its military nuclear secret ��� the secrets of its military nuclear activities? They absolutely refuse to say a word.. We never forget that, but its time the Palestinians stopped denying history.
Clintons Speech at the AIPAC Conference - Council on.
And I particularly want to acknowledge the many students in the audience from around the country, the future of AIPAC and the U.S.-Israel relationship. I want to pay tribute to one member of the AIPAC family and my very good��.
AIPAC gnashing their teeth - MWC News
Focus Analysis AIPAC gnashing their teeth. Even Abe Foxman of the ADL - a pillar of the American Jewish establishment - desperately called upon Netanyahu to cancel his speech and put out the spreading conflagration.. But already for a long time, Jews who support any Progressive issue and campaign, in the United States itself and worldwide, find it difficult to link this with supporting the State of Israel ��� ever more difficult, with Israel being most of the time under��.
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Instead they have focused on defeating the non-jihadist rebels that Mr. Obama has said the U.S. supports. This makes. Those U.S. allies fear that this is precisely what Mr. Obama is moving toward���an entente with Iran that starts with a nuclear.
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Americas diplomatic efforts will focus on two particular issues: Irans pursuit of nuclear weapons and the Arab-Israeli conflict.. Say this for Obama, he knows how to slip AIPACs talking points into the middle of a peace speech. He did so when he said that Americans see an Iranian government that ���has declared the United States an enemy and directly or through proxies taken American hostages, killed U.S. troops and civilians, and threatened our ally Israel with��.
Obama courts a so-called ally
The timing could hardly be more delicate, with the U.S. approaching a potential endgame in nuclear negotiations with Saudi Arabias archenemy, Iran, and conflicts flaring on Saudi Arabias borders with Yemen and Syria that threaten both countries.
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���The U.S. and its closest allies are on the brink of a historic deal that will both prevent an Iranian bomb and war with Iran, and Congressional hawks are orchestrating political stunts with foreign leaders to try to kill it,��� said NIAC President Trita Parsi.. According to Jewish Voice for Peace, as of today, 29 members of Congress will skip Netanyahus speech. You can. AIPAC �� Benjamin Netanyahu �� International �� Iran �� Iraq �� Israel �� John Boehner �� Recommended. Poll.
Dear Mr. Netanyahu, please dont cancel your speech
Americans have a right to reach the conclusion that Iran is not a big problem for us, and that we need to be friends with an advanced society of 75 million people, almost all Muslims. The Netanyahu speech, filled with fire and��.
Is AIPAC Still the Chosen One? | Mother Jones
Members of Congress are looking to support the president, and AIPAC hasnt moderated itself as much as it should have, says Patrick Disney, acting legislative director at the National Iranian American Council, which is part of the new coalition. AIPAC. Hes demanded that Israel halt its expansion of settlements in the West Bank, and in June, alarm bells went off in Israel when Obama, in his long-awaited Cairo speech on US-Muslim relations, expressed sympathy for the plight of the��.
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���People who grew up in Jim Crow segregation in the South were closer to black people than [upwardly mobile white youngsters] are to us,��� he says, adding, ���In America, Jews have been the only white people to really engage with me. If it wasnt for my.
NYT publicizes AIPACs first failure in 30 years, as de.
Even Abe Foxman concedes the Iran sanctions have stalled, and reporter Mark Lander says that the lobby ���overreached��� by pillorying Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her silence re the Obama deal with Iran. And after. De Blasio is now inching away from that groveling speech. Capital NY:.. I guess New York Slime wants us to either forget about their support for bombing Syria, or wants to pretend that this wasnt a politcal defeat for AIPAC and The Lobby or both.
Benjamin Netanyahu Slams Iran at United Nation ��� Uses Derek Jeter as Punch.
Dangerous Game: Benjamin Netanyahu shows photo of what he said was Palestinian children playing near a Hamas rocket launcher during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
Remarks by the Vice President to the AIPAC Policy.
And President-elect Bob Cohen, the entire AIPAC Board of Directors, Im delighted to be with you today.. My father would say, were he a Jew, he would never, never entrust the security of his people to any individual nation, no matter how good and how noble it was, like the United States.. Irans dangerous nuclear weapons program, and its continued support of terrorist organizations, like Hezbollah and Hamas, not only endanger Israel, but endanger the world.
Netanyahu at AIPAC: Rebutting Obama, Affirming Israel.
As commentators have noted, this is a direct threat to a democratic ally from a president who has great difficulty taking credible stances toward the likes of Syria, Iran, and Russia. Netanyahu, for his part, in his speech to AIPAC��.
Critics divided over Netanyahus speech
Administration officials are especially incensed that Israels ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer, met with Kerry for two hours on Tuesday and didnt mention Bibis speech (which was announced the next day).. The paper also seems a bit hurt that Obama.
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���In many segments of American Jewry,��� Zemel said, ���one is free to disagree with the president of the United States, but the prime minister of Israel is sacrosanct. How patently absurd!��� Zemels criticism of the current Israeli government pivoted to a.
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AIPAC seeks to blow up negotiations between Iran and US.
National Security Adviser Susan Rice said yesterday that new sanctions on Iran would ���blow up��� the negotiations between the US and Iran over nuclear enrichment. Yes but who is pushing them for the new Congress? Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council sent out this email today, saying the US and Iran are closer than ever to a deal but the Israel lobby group AIPAC is trying to put the kibosh on it. The new Republican Senate Majority Leader has��.
The Iraq war-- What did AIPAC do and when did it do it?
At an AIPAC session on Sunday night, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom proclaimed in a speech praising Secretary of State Colin L. Powell: ���We have followed with great admiration your efforts to mobilize the international community to.. we are smart enough today ��� and we have the data to back it up ��� to say some jews pushed for war with Iraq and now want war with Iran, and we can name the people and the organizations and follow the money ��� anyone��.