Ron Kampeas at JTA has a report saying that AIPAC’s call for a “viable Palestinian state” probably had the blessing of Netanyahu, but has angered the Zionist Organization of America. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to maintain ambiguity…
I get the feeling my president is recoiling somewhat in this photo. Do you? Oh–that’s my president, on the left.
Gideon Levy thinks so: Peres also hasn’t forgotten the shopworn, hollow old slogans about Israel’s yearning for peace, slogans for which one might still find dubious buyers only occasionally in America. Israel yearns for “peace with all peoples, with all…
At AIPAC, I was struck by the fact that senior Netanyahu adviser Ron Dermer seemed so American. And he’s from Miami, with a tough-guy swagger. I also saw Michael Oren, the next Israeli ambassador to the U.S., who I have…
At AIPAC, I was struck by the fact that senior Netanyahu adviser Ron Dermer seemed so American. And he’s from Miami, with a tough-guy swagger. I also saw Michael Oren, the next Israeli ambassador to the U.S., who I have…
Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu, (apparently born and raised in the U.S., his brother and father former mayors of Miami Beach), commenting at AIPAC on Netanyahu’s constituency: The victory in Israel, by the way–you may not know…
How important is Palestinian statehood to the AIPAC faithful? How likely is a confrontation between Obama and the Israel lobby? Answers: Not very important. And, likely. I talked to a dozen AIPAC members last night and this morning and got…
Short, very positive speech from Bibi Netanyahu, by video feed from Israel to the AIPAC policy conference. Seemed just a wee bit groggy, as though jarred from sleep at 3 a.m., but not at all scary. Warm, even fuzzy. The…
JPost says I’m wrong, that there is a significant difference between the AIPAC line and the Netanyahu government line: While Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is refusing to explicitly endorse a two-state solution to resolve the Palestinian conflict, participants at the…