By Uriel Heilman, JTA, WASHINGTON
• Published May 25, 2011
President Barack Obama knew he had some damage control to do when he took the podium before thousands of Israel supporters on Sunday morning at the opening plenary of the annual AIPAC conference. But he wasn't offering any apologies for his speech three...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, WASHINGTON
• Published May 25, 2011
That Israel problem President Obama had with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? Old news. That Israel problem Obama has with Congress? And with his party? That's just beginning. In two successive speeches -- one to the American Israel Public Affairs...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 25, 2011
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, prolific author and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate said he does "not believe President Barack Obama is anti-Israel." He added that the president's controversial speech last week at the State Department calling for a peace...
The St. Louis Jewish Book Festival welcomes the KMOX Charlie Brennan Show/Fontbonne University Book Club for a live broadcast and interview with international journalists from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday June 13 at the JCC - Staenberg Family Complex Arts and...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, WASHINGTON
• Published May 25, 2011
Let's get past this U.S.-Israel relationship thing, so we can get on with important stuff, like the U.S.-Israel relationship.That seemed to be the message this week at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.With a...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA WASHINGTON
• Published May 24, 2011
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that any peace deal with the Palestinians must grant Israel a military presence along the Jordan River, exclude repatriation of Palestinian refugees to Israel and leave Jerusalem as Israel's united capital. However,...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 18, 2011
The so-called "Arab Spring," which has convulsed the Middle East and North Africa for the past several months, has been jolted by the carefully coordinated "demonstrations" against Israel on the 63rd anniversary of its independence.Palestinians have labeled...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, WASHINGTON
• Published May 18, 2011
Crush terrorists and then make peace.Through quirks of timing, it's a narrative that President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally can agree on when they meet this week in Washington.There remains a critical difference, however, between...
By Uriel Heilman and Marcy Oster, JTA
• Published May 15, 2011
JERUSALEM — In the wake of disturbances on Israel's borders that have resulted in as many as 14 deaths, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a national address that he has ordered his military to stop the infiltration and defend the country's sovereignty. ...
The announcement of a Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement is a by-product of the Arab Spring, and the Palestinian chess game to position the public of both the West Bank and Gaza Strip for Palestinian statehood. The questions that the deal raises are...
JERUSALEM — Israel continued its observance of Memorial Day, or Yom Hazikaron with a two-minute siren sounded across the country. The siren Monday morning, during which people stopped and stood in their places and traffic came to a standstill, also...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON
• Published April 21, 2011
The path to international recognition of Palestinian statehood by September - when the Palestinians plan to bring the matter before the U.N. General Assembly - seems clear.The question before Israel and its supporters who oppose such recognition is how...
