The meeting Monday between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Bush at Bush\’s vast Texas ranch was to have affirmed the special U.S.-Israel relationship and paved the way forward in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process — a triumphant summit between two friends, farmers and statesmen.
Many of the major Jewish religious streams, lobbying groups and civil rights groups are encouraging the Bush administration, lawmakers and opinion makers to maintain political support for Israel\’s July 20 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements.
President Bush is declaring his hope for a Palestinian state loud and clear, and no wonder — it\’s almost the price of entry to the alliance with Europe that he urgently wants to revive.
President Bush is declaring his hope for a Palestinian state loud and clear, and no wonder — it\’s almost the price of entry to the alliance with Europe that he urgently wants to revive.
It was an invitation without an R.S.V.P. Come on over, President Bush told his newly elected Palestinian Authority counterpart — but let\’s wait to set a date. The check is in the mail, I\’m just not sure how much.
The public resurrection of a federal investigation involving Washington\’s top pro-Israel lobby has done little to shake Jewish confidence in the group — but some organizations worry about the long road that now appears ahead.
FBI investigators searched the Washington headquarters of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Dec. 1, the second search in five months.
Reports of Iran\’s accelerated development of nuclear material, as well as missiles to deliver it, have profoundly unsettled Israelis.
Like two surly dinner guests who won\’t let an argument go, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry won\’t get off topic when they take their case to U.S. Jews: It\’s all Israel all the time.
A cold fear is blowing through south Florida\’s strip malls, wilted palms and retirement homes — fear of another agonizingly close election fraught with charges and countercharges of vote theft.
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