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…erican supporters of the PLO would cry “First Amendment foul.” It was not as predictable that many Jewish supporters of Israel followed my lead in opposing such censorship. And what about the classic of self-serving promotion of the Bill of Rights: The Philip Morris sponsorship...

…hing, but on a much larger scale. My Uncle Itchie stowed away on a ship headed for Palestine in order to participate in Israel’s struggle for statehood. He did not have enough money for passage, so he hid in a closet during the nearly month long trip, getting food from a friend w...

…ant to share in the consequences. None of this meant I wasn’t going. Even if the no-confidence vote succeeded, the new Israeli electoral system, with its separate vote for Prime Minister, meant I would remain in office, at least until the summit was over. In a nationally televis...

…ight answer. Again, not full acceptance necessarily, but agreement to treat the proposals as a basis for negotiating an Israeli-Palestinian peace. Arafat’s answer came shortly before dawn. It was “no”. Clinton couldn’t quite believe it. He went back to see Arafat, telling him he...

…reign aid to Mubarak. Was that a bad idea? DP: That aid dates back to the utterly different circumstances of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979 and became progressively more wrong- headed. It should long ago have been discontinued. More broadly, I believe in aid for emergenci...

… and it's kind of fun to watch the Republican lunatics shrieking hysterically as they try to kill it (as they may). And Israeli hypocrisy has gone well beyond being comical. But in fact the whole thing is farcical, in my opinon. In the US, Iran is "the greatest threat to world pe...

…monstratively support popular democratic movements. Article 4. TIME Spy Fail: Why Iran Is Losing Its Covert War with Israel Karl Vick Feb. 13, 2013 -- Slumped in a Nairobi courtroom, suit coats rumpled and reading glasses dangling from librarian chains, the defendants made a...

…f Palestine to those who had somehow survived. I was three when the Holocaust ended, and it was three years later that Israel was established in May 1948, and neighboring Arab states sent in their armies to try to snuff the state out in its infancy. It would, again, be some year...

… final appeals ahead of Brexit vote | 23 Jun 2016, | Jerusale 0 | positive el https://t.co/LLcWRINIjh 00:39 - CEST | m, Israel alijduncan Bremain or Bereave? Vote smart Britons! 23 Jun 2016, | Wellingt 0 | negative #EUreferendum #Remain #UKreferendum #Brexit 00:39 - CEST | on, Ne...

…nxious to alert the United States and Europe to the danger of allowing the peace process to sink into a prolonged coma. Israeli hard-liners, too, may calculate that a short war could serve their purpose: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government may sense weakness...

…ntary), 58 Iran, 4, 191, 225-27 Traq, 42, 49, 128, 138, 182 ISIS, 7, 49, 219 isolationism, 118, 174, 184, 191, 227 Israel, 4, 6, 140-43, 211, 219, 227, 230, 265, 281, 289 Jackson, Andrew, 44, 67, 158 Jackson, Michael, 28, 42 Japan, 39, 106 Jarrett, Valerie, 129 Jefferson...

… pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.” Then, to boot, he revealed information supplied to the United States by Israel from its agent in place in Syria about ISIS using laptops to smuggle bombs onto airlines—revealing enough information to compromise the Israeli agent. (T...

…upport of voters outside Labor as well. I set out to establish a broader movement, a big tent under which a majority of Israelis could coexist politically. I realized this risked provoking anger among some Labor activists. But I wanted to convey to voters that I was reaching out...

…Messiah, the second for Christians, the first for the Jews, is dependent upon the complete return of all of the land of Israel to the Jews. | recall that in the middle 1940’s, my father took me to a fund raising dinner for the local chapter of the Jewish Antidefamation League. T...

… C.P.” because “most murderers are products of invironment.”] In law school, he wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Israel...arguing that the death penalty was inappropriate even for Adolf Eichmann. Goldberg’s choice of Dershowitz to write his capital punishment opinion was...