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Topic: Aaron David Miller

March 10, 2013
8:55 am

PM Benjamin Netanyahu with US President Barack Obama, March 2012. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Obama carries three goals on trip to Israel

President aims to mend relationship with Netanyahu, kickstart the peace process, and prove his bona fides on Iran

By Stephen R. Hurst

March 3, 2013
10:15 pm

Crowd at the AIPAC conference in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2013 (photo credit: Times of Israel Staff)

At AIPAC conference, Iran endgame looms large

To the pro-Israel advocates in the US, Tehran’s attempt to procure a nuclear weapon still perceived as biggest threat

By Mark Donig

January 18, 2013
1:06 am

Aaron David Miller (photo credit: Courtesy)

Obama-Netanyahu relationship is ‘most dysfunctional’ ever

US president and Israeli prime minister have never been as deeply at odds and for so long, says former top US diplomat

By Times of Israel staff

January 15, 2013
8:48 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listening as President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting in Washington in March 2012 (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Fed up, Obama says Israel ‘doesn’t know its own best interests’

US president, unhappy over settlement building, said to say he has come to expect such self-defeating behavior from Netanyahu

By Times of Israel staff

January 14, 2013
7:56 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama meet at the White House, May 2011. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office/Flash90)

Obama-Netanyahu ties to stay terse in second term, analyst says

Alliance between DC and Jerusalem strong, notes Aaron Miller, but Iran and Palestinian issues will muddy relationship as 2 leaders receive new mandates

By Steven R. Hurst

December 28, 2012
9:53 pm

Sen. Chuck Hagel at the Forum on the Law of the Sea Convention in Washington, D.C., on May 9, 2012. (photo credit: Glenn Fawcett/Department of Defense)

How the Hagel nomination battle became a fight over the Israel lobby

Many Democrats want a Democrat for defense secretary. Many Republicans are angered by Chuck Hagel’s political independence. And most senators disagree with his policy positions. Yet his supporters insistently frame opposition to Hagel’s nomination as the pernicious agitation of a hardline Israel lobby

By Haviv Rettig Gur

December 20, 2012
6:02 am

President Obama speaks by phone with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas while aboard Air Force One in July 2010. (Pete Souza/White House via JTA)

Obama won’t focus on Israel in second term, experts predict

Fiscal challenges, Iran’s nuclear program and a changed approach to peace talks mean dramatic developments are unlikely

By Ron Kampeas

December 19, 2012
1:36 am

Sen. Chuck Hagel at the Forum on the Law of the Sea Convention in Washington, D.C., on May 9, 2012. (photo credit: Glenn Fawcett/Department of Defense)

Opposition to Hagel appointment unites pro-Israel advocates, women’s groups, Republicans

‘Jewish lobby’ comment, suggestion to negotiate with Hamas, objection to labeling Hezbollah a terrorist organization dog Defense candidate

By Haviv Rettig Gur

December 18, 2012
7:50 pm

Chuck Hagel arrives at Camp Ramadi, in central Iraq, for a short visit with US servicemen, July 22, 2008. (photo credit: courtesy United States Marine Corps)

Likely new US defense chief seen backpedaling on opposition to Iran strike

Chuck Hagel ‘now in sync’ with Obama, says ADL head; Jewish hawks slam his voting record on Israel and his comments denigrating Jewish lobby

By Raphael Ahren

December 16, 2012
7:35 am

Former senator Chuck Hagel (left) shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta in May 2012. (photo credit: CC BY Glenn Fawcett, DoD, Flickr)

Ahead of likely nomination, Chuck Hagel’s record worries some Israel supporters

From the web Presumptive pick for defense secretary has been critical of ‘Jewish lobby’ in Washington; pushed Obama to support Fatah-Hamas unity, Politico reports

September 29, 2012
12:26 am

A Free Syrian Army soldier after firing a recoilless rifle during clashes with Syrian government forces at the village of Mukhtariya in the suburbs of Homs, Syria. (photo credit: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights via AP video)

Free Syrian Army fighters aren’t extremists or ‘al-Qaeda types,’ group’s DC fundraiser insists

Representative says the Syrian opposition is committed to a multi-ethnic, democratic future after Assad

By Michal Shmulovich

September 22, 2012
1:14 am

Republican US presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a press conference in Jerusalem, July 29, 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Mainstream Jewish groups unfazed by Romney’s Mideast peace pessimism

Centrists unwilling to criticize Republican candidate over comments blaiming Palestinians for political impasse

By Ron Kampeas

July 24, 2012
6:14 am

Portrait of Yitzhak Rabin. Had Rabin not been assassinated in November 1995, says Yossi Beilin, 'We would now have peace.' (photo credit: Flash90)

On Capitol Hill, a look back at Oslo and forward on peace process

Washington panel brings together Israeli thinkers from all political streams to reflect on two decades since the accords

By Suzanne Pollak

July 4, 2012
1:41 am

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, January 13, 2011. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/JTA)

Visit to Israel gives Romney chance to shore up foreign policy, evangelical cred

Presidential hopeful needs to overcome perception that he’s a ‘foreign policy lightweight’ and too similar to Obama on strategy

By Ron Kampeas

June 26, 2012
9:14 am

Mohammed Morsi (photo credit: Egypt State TV/AP)

In wake of Egyptian elections, Washington paves a new foreign policy path

Spread of democracy trumps old loyalties as Obama administration calls Islamist Mohammed Morsi’s victory a ‘milestone’

By Anne Gearan

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