Shimon Peres arrived in Washington for a three-day visit that will include a meeting with President Obama. Peres, who arrived Monday, will discuss \”security cooperation between Israel and the United States, recent developments in the Middle East, and the pursuit of peace between Israel and its neighbors,\” during his meeting with Obama, according to a statement from Peres\’ office.
Israeli President Shimon Peres is visiting Washington. Peres will be in Washington next week, the Israeli embassy said in a release Thursday, and arrangements for meetings with \”government leaders\” are underway.
Live video of President Obama as he discusses the situation in Libya.
The Obama administration and France reportedly nixed a visit by U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to Syria. Kerry (D-Mass.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has cultivated a relationship with the regime otherwise treated as a pariah in the West in the hope of drawing it away from Iranian influence.
It’s time for the West to woo Latin America — some will say it\’s about time. The United States and Israel appear to be heading toward increasing their focus on the area following years of neglect that has resulted in closer ties between Latin America and Iran — and gains for the Palestinians. The shift comes amid Iran’s deepening influence in the region, as well as the successes of a Palestinian diplomatic offensive that has seen eight Latin American nations agree to recognize a Palestinian “state” in recent months.
United States President Barak Obama condemned embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi Friday, warning that the U.S. will take military action if Gadhafi does not comply with the terms iterated in the UN Security Council resolution passed Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will answer questions from people around the world when he appears on YouTube\’s World View. Netanyahu will be the third world leader to appear on the citizen-powered interview program with his live-streamed interview on March 23.
A bipartisan slate of U.S. senators pressed the Obama administration on its policy on China\’s dealings with Iran. The letter, signed by 10 senators and first reported last week in Foreign Policy, lists foreign entities — most of them Chinese — dealing with Iran\’s energy sector. The senators called on the Obama administration to implement a law passed last summer that expands sanctions to third parties dealing with Iran\’s energy sector.
I joined more than 2,400 pro-Israel, pro-peace activists — students and American and Israeli leaders, including five members of the Knesset, dozens of members of Congress and 100 rabbis, last week in Washington, D.C., at J Street’s second national conference. Although I am the rabbi of a congregation, I went as an individual representing no one but myself. I did so as a committed Zionist who loves Israel, who worries about her security and who wishes her to remain a strong, Jewish, pluralistic and democratic state.
Valerie Jarrett, President Obama\’s top domestic policy adviser, told a Jewish audience that her great-grandfather was Jewish. \”The Passover seder has a unique lore in my own family,\” Jarrett said Monday while addressing the annual plenum of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Jewish public policy umbrella, in Washington.
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