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U.S. To Review Military Policy After Attack

Jerusalem - The Middle East Newsline has confirmed that the U.S. military plans to begin a review of its increased Muslim presence in the armed forces. The U.S. Defense Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff...

Soft Military Coup Could Surface In Egypt

A report to the United States Congress warns that Egypt’s military could stage a coup to prevent the transition of power by President Hosni Mubarak to his 46-year-old son, Gamal. The Congressional Research Service has...

Showdown on J Street: As J Street’s major conference approaches, some pointed questions for...

Lenny Ben-David worked for AIPAC until 1997. He later served as a diplomat
in Israel's embassy in Washington. Today, he is a public affairs consultant and blogs at www.lennybendavid.com.

J Street’s Dangerous Detour on the Road to the White House

Yasser Arafat sought peace with Israel, Jeremiah was a bullfrog, the Brooklyn Bridge is for sale, Brutus was an honorable man, and J Streetis a “pro-Israel” organization. Not. As a long-time student of American politics...

Jerusalem Think Tank Attacks Obama On Failure To Name Anti-Semitism Envoy

Jerusalem, Israel - A monograph published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, run by Dr. Dore Gold, a close advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahy, entitled "The Politics of the American Response to...

PALESTINIAN REACTION TO NETANYAHU POLICY SPEECH: “THERE IS NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT”

The news of the week in Israel’s bustling capital revolves around Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s policy speech at Bar Ilan University on June 14, where Israel formally announced that it would indeed recognize an independent Palestinian state, if it were to be demilitarized and if would recognize Israel as a Jewish state, as proscribed in the “declaration of principles” of the 1993 Oslo accords, which were signed by Israel and the PLO on the White House lawn in September 1993, approved by the Israeli Knesset Parliament, yet never ratified by the PLO.

Confirmed: Israel, US Will Hold Massive Joint Exercise

Israel and the United States plan to hold a major ballistic missile defense exercise later this year called Juniper Cobra. The maneuver will jointly test three different American and Israeli missile defense systems. Israeli defense...

Israeli-Americans Sue North Korea

Thirty Israeli-Americans have filed an unprecedented lawsuit in an American court charging the North Korean government with providing material support to Hezbollah during the 2006 war in Lebanon. The suit seeks more than $100 million...

Sestak: Tighter Reins On Palestinian Funds Needed

Documentation showing the Palestinian Authority (PA) routinely transfers American, European and Israeli aid monies to Hamas and harbors terrorist groups such as Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade has a prominent local congressman...

Clinton Visits Israel

Yesterday, Hillary Rodham Clinton spent a day in Israel for the first time in her role as the Secretary of State. The first matter of business that Mrs. Clinton addressed upon her Jerusalem arrival was...