Results for “American Israel Public Affairs Committee”

/ BARAK / 66 Bet technician. I assumed that, one way or another, the Americans could listen in, but was fairly confident we were beyond the electronic earshot of the Palestinians. I kept myself fully informed of, but at a distance from, the specific work of our five negotiating...

…as Meyer, auctioneer for Sotheby’s and art dealer Mark Fletcher hosted an open house at their Mulholland Drive home for American avant-garde photographer Terry Richardson. This is the only pre-Oscar party where a guest dropped his pants and mooned the red carpet and Terry signed...

…m from advancing into Christian Europe at the Battle of Vienna in 1683. It was not sermons, but soldiers, who freed the American colonists from Great Britain’s rule in 1781, and soldiers, not sermons, truly emancipated America’s slaves in 1865 and liberated the survivors of the N...

…of opposition to our efforts at home, we’d never gef to the key issues of substance. I’d been making that point to the Americans for weeks. At first, I tried to persuade them to hold the talks at Camp David, ensuring the same, media-free isolation that had yielded the historic I...

…In which we learn what networks are really, rather wonderfully, meant for. 1. Starting in the springtime of 1997, the American scientist and inventor Danny Hillis began what has since become an every-few-months sort of ritual. He packed up from his home in Encino, a short drive...

…ittee of the World Economic Forum, the External Advisory Board of the University of Michigan’s Risk Science Center, the American Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Communications Advisory Board of the National Academy of Sciences, and as an advisor to OECD’s Glob...

… As China’s economy and financial weight has grown, CFIUS has reviewed an increasing number of proposed acquisitions of American companies and infrastructure by Chinese entities. Many of these proposed mergers have received high levels of media and congressional attention, and mo...

…fact that there is no successor candidates among the new leaders? RLK: I was interviewed in early 2012 by a well-known American television network and the question put to me, in January of that year, was, “isn’t Xi Jinping going to be a very weak leader because he was not appoin...

/ BARAK / 22 struck by how different the approach was from our campaign for Peres. As I filled my notebook with the details, Philip added a final bit of advice. “If you want to win, have it run by the best professionals you can find. Not politicians. They always have personal ag...

the district court drew upon public awareness that Iraq supported suicide bombers in Israel to “infer that ...

Israel deliberately made no public comment. We refused to

response, or an American one, on an incomparably greater scale. It would also totally isolate Saddam internationally and end any chance of peeling off Arab support for the Americans. It was my nearly 100-per-cent caveat that prompted a tense debate within the cabinet. Even if th...

…front of abortion clinics. One group that is in danger of being drummed out of the First Amendment Hall of Fame is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Until recently, it was a charter member. But in recent years some of its branches have gotten soft on the First Amendment...

…inating. BB is making "historic mistakes"(as he likes to blame others) both vis-a-vis Obama as well as in regard to the American Jewry. And causes a direct damage to IL. Noam is so sharp and focused. Really impressive. I did not fully understand how the fallacy he sees in the att...

response, or an American one, on an incomparably greater scale. It would also totally isolate Saddam internationally and end any chance of peeling off Arab support for the Americans. It was my nearly 100-per-cent caveat that prompted a tense debate within the cabinet. Even if th...