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ANSWER's Steering CommitteeBy Ryan Anderson O’DonnellFrontPageMagazine.com | March 12, 2003 The group at the forefront of the recent anti-war rallies, International A.N.S.W.E.R (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is in reality a front organization designed to further the radical agenda of several extremist movements from the political Left. Despite the media’s assertions to the contrary, present incarnation of the peace movement, led by ANSWER, is anything but representative of mainstream America. ANSWER’s steering committee reads like a "Who’s Who" of radical political organizations. The most influential member of ANSWER’s steering committee, Ramsey Clark’s pet project known as the...

Jimmy Carter was the best friend the Jews ever had as president of the United States. He is the only president to have actually delivered for the Jewish people an agreement — the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt — that has stood the test of time. There have been bad vibes at subsequent times between Israel and Egypt, but there has never been a return to war once Israel fully withdrew from the territories it conquered in Egypt during the 1967 war. To get that agreement, Carter had to twist the arms of Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. Sometimes...

Feb. 12, 2003 US rabbi barred from San Francisco war protest, as too 'pro-Israel' By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF Rabbi Michael Lerner says today he has been barred from speaking at an anti-war protest planned for this Sunday in San Francisco, because he spoke out against the organizers'dissemination of anti-Israel propaganda. Lerner, the editor of Tikkun magazine and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue, writes of his being turned away at the rally on the op-ed page of Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. "We at Tikkun do not believe that this war--in which thousands of Iraqi civilians are likely to die--will...