Barack Obama

A quick history of Joe Biden’s Middle East policy

Told through moments and relationships with three key figures: Golda Meir, Menachem Begin and Barack Obama.

By Ron Kampeas May 7, 2020 1:50 pm

A decade ago, linking Israel’s founding to the Holocaust started a firestorm. Today it’s accepted.

A message that President Obama pushed at a 2009 speech in Cairo provoked a wave of criticism. Now it’s the basis of a Republican-written congressional resolution.

January 14, 2020 12:42 pm

The Tell

The Tell: 2 senators reach across the aisle to tackle the Syria nightmare

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Michael Oren writes of being in a reverie on Sept. 30, 2013, his last day as Israel’s ambassador to Washington, when he heard President Barack Obama tell his boss, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “If war comes, we’re with you, because that’s what the American people want.” The remark left Oren wanting something […]

October 11, 2019 3:04 pm

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Barack Obama

A quick history of Joe Biden’s Middle East policy

A decade ago, linking Israel’s founding to the Holocaust started a firestorm. Today it’s accepted.

The Tell: 2 senators reach across the aisle to tackle the Syria nightmare

AIPAC must get tough with the anti-Israel left

Police investigating suspicious package at the office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

ADL head calls on Barack Obama to again denounce Louis Farrakhan

Does the Obama-Farrakhan photo matter? Does anything?

Photographer says his photo of Obama and Farrakhan was suppressed at request of black lawmakers

Obama used to joke with staff that he’s ‘basically a liberal Jew’

US House of Representatives passes bills imposing sanctions on Iran, Hezbollah

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