U.S. Officials: What Freeze Commitments? David Bedein Reports on Trip to the US

United States officials are unfamiliar with the commitments America is allegedly offering Israel in exchange for a ban on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, says investigative journalist David Bedein. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu...

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The Israeli government is waiting for the US government to put in writing what Clinton told Netanyahu verbally. Israel might have to wait a long time. Yesterday, when State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was asked about...

A WaPo reporter’s anti-Israeli approach: from Sderot to Jakarta

When Washington Post reporter Scott Wilson did a stint as the paper's Jerusalem correspondent, he earned a well-deserved and well-documented reputation for anti-Israel bias, shading and spinning his copy to portray Israel in the...

U.S. Congress Backs Israel, Will Israel Join In?:Interview with David Bedein

Several members of the United States Congress have sponsored legislation aimed at putting an end to Arab incitement against Israel. Now an Israeli reporter is calling on the government to state its own position,...

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"Tedious" We've been there, done that. Plans for building in Jerusalem east of the Green Line are announced, and the world goes slightly berserk. It is really tiresome. Word from the government here is that 1) these...

The Arab Lobby: The European Component

In the early 1980s, there was a palpable concern among staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of the looming rise of an Arab-American lobby aimed at challenging the pro-Israel community. The National Association of...

Editor’s Notes: Danny Seaman’s farewell voyage: The departing head of the Government Press Office...

BEFORE READING THIS NEWSWORTHY INTERVIEW, PLEASE READ THE NEWS STORIES ABOUT DANNY SEAMAN FROM EIGHT YEARS AGO WHICH APPEAR ON THIS WEB SITE: http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/bin/search.cgi?match=AND&keywords=seaman+press+cards&submit=Search Photo by: Marc Israel Sellem Winding up a torrid decade as director of...

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A recent column, "Just Knock It off," by Tom Friedman, writing in the NY Times. refers to Israel as a "spoiled child" for not acceding to Obama's demands for a continuation of the freeze. Israel,...

ISRAEL FOREIGN MINISTER PREPARING HIMSELF FOR THE “DAY AFTER”

While efforts to renew the negotiations between Israel and Palestinians are still under way, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is already preparing himself for the day after the failure of those talks. Lieberman has instructed the...