Biden hears appeal for Pollard
Ron Kampeas, JTADec 01, 2011
WASHINGTON Four drug dealers, a trafficker in stolen goods, a gambler and a turkey made President Obamas Thanksgiving freedom list, but Israels best-known spy did...
Obama imposes new sanctions
Ron Kampeas, JTANov 24, 2011
WASHINGTON With new measures tightening sanctions on Iran, the US moved one step further toward effectively cutting off the Islamic Republics economy from the West....
Ross quits; cites grandfatherhood
Ron Kampeas, JTANov 17, 2011
WASHINGTON Dennis Ross got back in the drivers seat, yet three years later the peace is still missing. Ross, a veteran of four failed presidential pushes for Middle...
Meet Dan Shapiro, Hebrew-tweeting US ambassador
Ron Kampeas, JTANov 17, 2011
WASHINGTON The US ambassador to Israel tweets in Hebrew. A generation ago, the latter part of that statement would have been as shocking as the first part would have...
IAEA: Iran nuclear threat ‘credible’
Ron Kampeas, JTANov 10, 2011
WASHINGTON The international nuclear watchdog has spoken on Iran, and although its report does not have the smoking gun some had anticipated, it makes a cumulative...
Palestinian statehood run aground?
Ron Kampeas, JTANov 10, 2011
WASHINGTON They may have scored a victory at UNESCO, but the Palestinians are running into new obstacles on their push for statehood recognition at the UN. The effort...
US defunds UNESCO: What now?
Ron Kampeas, JTANov 03, 2011
WASHINGTON The immediate consequence of UNESCOs vote to grant the Palestinians membership is clear: a cutoff of American funding for the UN agency governing the...
What was Qadaffi’s relationship to the Jews?
Ron Kampeas, JTAOct 27, 2011
WASHINGTON Now it can be told: For the last decade or so, the Jews had secret back channels to Moammar Qadaffi. What led the pro-Israel community into a careful...
Behind the Iranian assassination plot
Ron Kampeas, JTAOct 22, 2011
WASHINGTON Iran watchers say the revelation of an alleged plot to hire Mexican contract killers to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington signals the...
At UN, Abbas, Netanyahu trade charges of ‘ethnic cleansing’
Ron Kampeas, JTASep 25, 2011
NEW YORK Mahmoud Abbas outlined a vision for an independent Palestine that hewed to the two-state formula but also revived rhetoric that hearkened back to an era of...
