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October 28, 2010

AJC Presents Gesher Award to Mayor Villaraigosa

For his work building bridges between the Jewish and Latino communities and his consistent support of Israel, American Jewish Committee’s Latino and Latin American Institute presented its third annual Gesher Award to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa at the Skirball Cultural Center in L.A. on Oct. 27.

The Arab Lobby: A ‘many-headed hydra’

Headlines tell us very little about the real interactions between Americans, Israelis, Arabs and various other interested parties on the subject of the Middle East. In reality, it’s much more like a three-dimensional chess game, and much of it goes on beneath the surface. That’s the point of “The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America’s Interests in the Middle East” (Harper: $27.99), an ardent effort by Middle East specialist Mitchell Bard to rebut the “conspiracy theories” that were most recently on display in “The Israel Lobby,” co-authored by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer.

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