John Kerry has put Israel in an “impossible situation,” Knesset member Ayelet Shaked wrote in a letter to the U.S. secretary of state.
The United States “remains a beacon of hope for the values of freedom, peace and justice around the globe,” Israeli President Shimon Peres said at a Fourth of July celebration.
The United States and Israel are coordinated on steps being taken to combat Iran\’s perceived nuclear threat and the two allies have been planning to ensure \”all other options\” are available, the U.S. ambassador to Israel said on Thursday.
When Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell sat down for an interview before a crowd of nearly 1,000 in Washington, D.C., last year, his interlocutor, New York Times columnist David Brooks, wondered why the political heavyweight had agreed to openly discuss a matter as sensitive as his diplomatic efforts. “Dan Shapiro told me to come,” Mitchell told Brooks and the standing-room-only crowd at the District’s Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. “When he gave me the order, I saluted.”
It\’s easy to read too much into whom a candidate chooses to advise him before an election, but it is risky to avoid the tea leaves
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