Archive for the ‘US Elections’ Category
Friday, November 7th, 2008
David Weinberg, director of the CIC's Israel Office, recommends "President Obama and the Middle East Challenge," by Jonathan Rynhold of the BESA Center, a non-partisan and independent institute, affiliated with the political science department at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
The article's executive summary reads: "Barack Obama's general outlook on foreign policy ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
While we can't cast a ballot, Canadians are taking a keen interest in that other election going on south of the border. Now you can take part as top representatives from the Barak Obama and John McCain camps discuss Israel, the threat of Iran and other key issues.
The Israel Project, an ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
The task ahead for newly elected Kadima party leader Tzipi Livni is to form a working coalition government - never easy given the fractious Israeli political scene.
But that's not the even biggest challenge facing Livni, writes Samuel Segev in the Winnipeg Free Press: "A new Israeli government also will have ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Just hours after he sewed up the Democratic presidential nomination, Barak Obama gave a speech to the annual AIPAC (American Israel Pubic Affairs Committee) Policy Conference that, not surprisingly given the audience, was strongly pro-Israel, including support for Jerusalem to "remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided."
In ...
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