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Reflections on the Death of the Peace Process
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in Times of Israel, December 6, 2017. One memorable night in August 1993, I went to sleep in a…
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Making America’s Mideast Policy Great Again?
Op-ed by Lara Friedman originally published in the Huffington Post, December 7, 2017. Back in February 2016, a New York bankruptcy lawyer named David Friedman…
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: December 7, 2017
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Making America’s Mideast Policy Great Again?
Today, 10 months into the Trump Administration’s tenure in office and six months after David Friedman took up his post as U.S. ambassador to Israel, things are going exactly as one should have expected, if one had taken seriously both Friedman’s special role and his extensive record of policy statements made over the course of the 2016 campaign and in the years preceding it.
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Jared Kushner By Day: Mideast Peace. Kushner Companies By Night: Donating to a West Bank Settlement.
“Under normal circumstances you would expect someone who has a background of activism related to Israel to be working very hard to take a step back from that to show that he can be a credible mediator. Not only is that not the case, it’s the opposite,” FMEP’s Lara Friedman tells ProPublica.
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: December 6, 2017
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: December 5, 2017
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Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: December 4, 2017
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What would Israel Anti-Boycott Act Do? Read the Law (amended by the Act) for Yourself
People continue to argue about what the Israel Anti-Boycott Act would or wouldn’t do, or aim or doesn’t aim to do. It is a very odd debate, because this is a matter of facts, not opinion (opinions may well differ on what people hope it will or won’t do; the facts about what it would do to the law are a matter of record).
To facilitate a clearer debate about this issue, I’ve helpfully pulled into this document all of the existing law that would be amended by the S. 720 (with links), and then I’ve gone ahead and made the amendments that S. 270 would make in those laws.