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(JTA) - America opposes efforts to delegitimize Israel, President Obama told a 50-member delegation of Jewish leaders during a White House meeting. Obama met Tuesday with members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. A statement issued by the White House called the one-hour discussion "productive." The statement said that Obama "reiterated America's unshakable support for Israel's security, opposition to any efforts to delegitimitize it or single it out for criticism, and commitment to achieve a peace that will secure the future for Arabs and Israelis alike." Obama, according to the statement, "praised the core of Jewish...

Read this in on the French newspaper "Le Monde" web site. Here is a synopsis in translation: A popular, widely circulated German newspaper reported that (West) German intelligence services knew of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann's whereabouts in Argentina as far back as 1952, yet willfully kept it secret from the rest of the world until at least 1958, when the information was shared with US intelligence. The newspaper published several relevant memos from those intelligence files with their article. Until last year, the files had been kept under wraps by the German court having oversight responsibility for the intelligence...

Video of FoxNews interview of Congresswoman-elect Kristi Noem (R-SD).

With two weeks to go until Election Day, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on eight of ten important issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen including the economy and health care.

The campaign to repeal Obamacare took a crucial step forward yesterday. Gene Taylor of Mississippi signed Discharge Petition #11 to force a vote on an outright repeal of Obamacare. He is the first of the 34 Democrats who voted against Obamacare to break ranks with Nancy Pelosi and support repeal. ......................................................... Self-proclaimed "independent" Democrats are falling all over themselves trying to separate themselves from Nancy Pelosi, but on something as central as Obamacare, which 34 of them opposed, only one Democrat [thus far] is willing to choose principle over party. ............................................................ Call their office[s] and ask them: Democrat Gene Taylor...

Pamela Geller had had enough. The right-wing blogger, whose vehement opposition to the planned Islamic community center near Ground Zero (a "mega-mosque," in her parlance) has earned Geller national headlines, rose from her seat at a Midtown diner last week and, fed up with the line of questioning, stormed out of a Jewish Week interview. "Shame on you," she shouted, "shame on you." "Stop slamming the good guys." ................................................... The sense of drama seems in part to define Geller, who can be seen on the Internet frolicking in a bikini and posing in a skin-tight Superwoman outfit. Her blog "Atlas...

The latest Rasmussen totals for AR-Senate are brutal for the incumbent (65/27 Bozeman/Lincoln) and the RCP average isn't much better. Which is not precisely news but it does lead to a couple of observations. First, given this type of lopsided Republican dominance in the Senate race, is it legitimate to say that either the Democratic incumbent in AR-04 (GOP candidate Beth Anne Rankin) or the Democrats trying to retain AR-01 (GOP candidate Rick Crawford) and AR-02 (GOP candidate Tom Griffin) have any kind of advantage in the general election? There is a very real possibility that Arkansas is about to...

Does it matter if a candidate for the US Senate served as a keynote speaker for an extremist group? Does it matter if he hired one of the group's staff to serve on his staff? These are some of the questions being asked about Rep. Joe Sestak as voters learn about his ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. ................................................. ...Sestak hired CAIR's director of communications in Philadelphia, Adeeba Al-Zalman, to work in his new Washington office in 2007. Soon thereafter, Al-Zalman had arranged for Sestak to speak at CAIR's Philadelphia dinner that year. ................................................. Joe Sestak's relationship with this...

The Gallup Generic Ballot is a trusted, widely reported resource. I've analyzed it extensively and defended it to others. But yesterday, when I covered the poll's latest release, Gallup lied. I was lied to, you were lied to, everyone who's trusted the Gallup name got lied to. How? Gallup is combining two different sampling methods into one so-called trend of Registered Voters (complete with captioned graph), getting different results, but pretending they show one trend just the same.

Today marks the 17th anniversary of Clinton White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster's death. Although ruled a "suicide" by official Washington since 1995, all credible forensic evidence in the case - circumstantial, physical, and laboratory - points to a homicide and a multi-pronged cover-up to shield the homicide's perpetrators from objective criminal investigation, indictment, and prosecution. As Newt Gingrich once noted to a reporter, you wold have to be brain dead to believe the official story. The general conclusion one can draw from the historical facts at hand is that in the United States legal system today - contrary to...

Yesterday was a glorious one for the movement. Nikki Haley won in South Carolina - which really wasn't a surprise. Gresham Barrett embarrassed himself by even staying in the race, but I suppose it was even more entertaining that way... Utah was a less certain situation. In the absence of any credible polling, no one really had a handle on how either candidate was doing. Mike Lee had a great week going in. Everyone on the ground had anecdotal input...which means exactly nothing when the numbers start coming in. Mike Lee is a solid small government candidate. There was a...

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) became the first medical society to sue to overturn the newly enacted health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). AAPS sued Friday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. ....................... Congress recognized that PPACA cannot be funded without the insurance mandates, and will become unaffordable without them. Court action is necessary "to preserve individual liberty" and to prevent PPACA from bankrupting the United States generally, and Medicare and Social Security, specifically.

FACT: Joe Sestak signed the controversial letter calling on President Obama to pressure Israel to relax security measures affecting Hamas-controlled Gaza. FACT: Sestak was endorsed and funded by J Street's political action committee. FACT: Sestak rarely supports the measures identified as top priorities by mainstream supporters of the US - Israel relationship. FACT: Sestak gave the keynote speech at a fundraiser for CAIR, a group deemed a supporter of terrorism even by leading Democrats like Senators Schumer and Durbin.

Washington, D. C. (June 1, 2010) -- The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) today affirmed its solidarity with Israel in the aftermath of violence provoked in the misnamed "Free Gaza" flotilla. RJC Executive Director Matthew Brooks said:Today, Israel is under assault from enemies near and far. The pretext for the assault: acts of self-defense undertaken by courageous Israeli naval personnel. The purpose of the IDF's acts: enforcing the lawful embargo established by Israel and Egypt against the Hamas belligerents who wage war against Israel from their base in the Gaza Strip. Of course, the violence would not have occurred if those...

NEW YORK - Former Congressman Vito Fossella stood outside his house last Thursday, chatting with reporters as his children played nearby. Two days earlier, the county committee had endorsed him to retake his old Staten Island seat. "I will make my decision within the next few days," he said... It was quite a different scene from the one two years ago, when reporters had been camped out on the same lawn, peppering Fossella with questions about a scene lurid even for Washington: A drunken driving arrest had led reporters into his secret second family, and tabloids had splashed his image...

WASHINGTON - Democratic congressional leaders vowed Friday to resurrect their long-stalled health care legislation with or without Republican suggestions or even their votes. One day after an unprecedented health care summit that brought together President Obama and lawmakers of both parties, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the nationally televised event showed GOP lawmakers are "accepting the status quo" in which insurance companies mistreat consumers. She told reporters at a news conference that there are "good prospects for passing" health care legislation along the lines Obama has outlined, even if Republicans refuse their support.

For the second straight week, Republican candidates led Democrats by nine points in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot. ............................... Republicans started the year ahead by nine points -- their largest lead in several years -- while support for for Democrats fell to its lowest level over the same period. ............................... The latest numbers continue to highlight a remarkable change in the political environment over the past year....

An angry "Tea Party" movement that Republican leaders hope to harness to boost their party's chances in the in the 2010 congressional midterm elections could also be a potential blow to GOP outreach to minorities - including Jewish voters. .......... "It's not a danger at the moment, but it bears watching," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "We've seen this before, and it always carries with it the risk the militants and extremists really will get a foothold. All such manifestations are threatening to minorities." In a report last year, the ADL warned that the Tea Partiers...

Early this morning, after weeks of raucus debate and exhausting negotiations, the U.S. Senate passed a historic health-care reform bill. The gravity of the rather solemn moment, however, was momentarily broken when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the main architect of the bill's passage, accidentally voted against it. With the debate on the bill entering its 25th day and the Senate's storied polite decorum eroding, the roll was called for a vote at 7:05 a.m.... Reid, clearly weary from the process, stood when his name was called and said "nay." Realizing what he had done, he quickly switched his vote...

WASHINGTON - The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate. .................. The problem is that the Senate won't run with it. The government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate.