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Ben-Ami does not rehearse his role in the 2000 negotiations but places the Clinton peace effort in a longer historical perspective, offering what he calls an "interpretive overview...ut the pendulous move of Jews and Arabs between war and peace." Michael Massing in the New York Review of Books (June 8, 2006), after criticizing some of the authors' facts and an inadequate analysis, goes them one better and lays out in even greater detail how AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations influence policy not only about Israel but the Middle East (Iraq, Iran, and Syria).
DESTIN, Fla. - Southeastern Conference presidents approved a series of proposals Friday on the final day of the league's annual spring business meetings that eliminate league football coaches oversigning past the NCAA limit of 25 scholarships per year. They also eliminated a transfer exception for graduate students, meaning a situation like last season's transfer of Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli to Ole Miss won't be repeated.
Now more than ever, true friendship requires strong American leadership and engagement to move the sides toward a comprehensive two-state solution," the Israeli leaders wrote in a letter to J Street's founders. "With time running out, business-as-usual will not do. Indeed, earlier this month, Eric Yoffie, the president of the influential Union of Reform Judaism, called on Jews to disassociate themselves from [John Hagee] and his organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Several days later, seven past chairmen of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, another major national group whose leadership has moved increasingly to the right, defended Hagee as a "true friend of Israel" and CUFI as "among the strongest supporters of Israel in the United Stat...
Discussing efforts by such groups as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Conference of Presidents to enforce what they view as a pro-Israel position in the current presidential campaign-particularly with regard to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), who is feared as one whose Middle East views are largely unknown-Goldberg writes that ...by the standards of rhetorical correctness maintained by such groups...Mr. Obama is actually more pro-Israel than either Ehud Olmert or Ehud Barak (to say nothing of John McCain and President George W. Bush, who spoke to the Knesset about external threats to Israel's safety but made no mention of the country's missteps). " "A More Nuanced Approach" Seymour D. Reich, president of the Israel Policy Forum and a former chairman of the Confere...
By Robert Gagliardi rgagliardi@wyosports.net
MORGANTOWN - Having been in the business of covering sports and athletics for well over 35 years now, I can recall only once when I felt it prudent or at all necessary to drop what I was doing and fly off to some distant outpost to chronicle the doings of conference presidents and athletic directors. It was mid-May of 2003 and the Big East seemed on the verge of if not collapse, then at least drastic reconfiguration. With John Swofford and the ACC ready to pluck Miami and any of a handful of others who felt the need to follow, I went to Ponte Vedra Beach for the Big East's annual spring meetings.
A U.S. Jewish security network has ramped up daily communication with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in light of Middle East fighting. Although there has been no specific threat against any U.S. Jewish institution, the Secure Community Network, is speaking "constantly" with these agencies, said Paul Goldenberg, SCN's national director. "At this point in time there is nothing specific that says Hezbollah is planning an attack on Jewish institutions to the best of our knowledge," he told JTA. "However, they should as a community remain vigilant. With escalated fighting, there's always a concern that there are people out there that don't await orders from any particular place." SCN, a security resource center for the U.S. Jewish community, was founded by the Conference o...
..., was founded by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Uni...
Triple Negatives for Pro-Israel Lobby Indeed, in an article in the Sept./Oct. 2007 issue of Tikkun, Rabbi Michael Lerner argued that the pro-Israel lobby-that constellation of organizations including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and a host of others-is "Bad for the United States, bad for Israel, and bad for the Jews." It is bad for the U.S. he argued, because "The Israel lobby identifies the best interests of the U.S. with those of the Israeli right-wing, and that right wing engages in activities against the Palestinian people in particular and against neighboring states, which have inflamed global public opinion not only against Israel but against the U.S." It is bad for Israel, he continued, ...
HARTFORD, Conn.- The presidents of the Big East member schools will discuss the future of the conference at a meeting this weekend, UConn President Susan Herbst said Wednesday. Herbst, in an email to The Associated Press, said the meeting in Washington on Sunday is a confidential gathering for conference presidents only and will not involve other university officials.
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