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Topic: Emergency Committee for Israel

April 14, 2013
9:01 am

Deputy foreign Minister Ze'ev Elkin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a Likud faction meeting (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Deputy FM blasts US Jewish leaders’ peace ‘pressure’

Ze’ev Elkin says prime minister should not be guided by external influences when making key diplomatic decisions

By Ron Friedman

April 5, 2013
10:16 am

William Kristol at a conservative convention in 2011 (photo credit: CC BY-SA Gage Skidmore, Flickr)

US group blasts Jewish ‘advice’ on peace process

In letter to PM, conservative Emergency Committee for Israel chastises Jewish leaders who urge Israel to sacrifice for peace

By Haviv Rettig Gur

February 27, 2013
2:41 am

Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on January 31, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Israel welcomes Hagel as defense secretary

Even after confirmation, Jewish groups in the US remain split on man criticized as being soft on Iran and hostile to the Jewish state

By Ron Friedman and AP

February 22, 2013
11:11 pm

Former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Obama's choice for defense secretary, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 31 (AP/Susan Walsh)

Hagel’s damaged brand

While they will no doubt lose the confirmation battle, Republicans have already achieved victory in the policy war

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 31, 2013
12:40 am

Texas Sen. John Cornyn coordinated his opposition to Sen. Chuck Hagel's nomination with Pastor John Hagee, the founder of Christians United For Israel. (Gage Skidmore/CreativeCommons via JTA)

Christian Zionists spearhead fight against Hagel

Pro-Israel evangelicals mobilize to sink GOP senator’s bid to become US defense secretary

By Ron Kampeas

January 10, 2013
7:19 pm

President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Monday to announce his nomination of John Brennan, second from the right, as the new CIA director, and former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, second from the left, as the new Defense Secretary. (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Opposition to Hagel isn’t dying down after nomination

While most observers believe Obama’s defense nominee will be confirmed, he still faces stubborn resistance from progressive Democrats and many Republicans

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 8, 2013
9:46 am

The homepage of chuckhagel.com. (Screenshot)

Right-wing pro-Israel group uses Hagel’s name to launch campaign against Pentagon chief pick

Emergency Committee for Israel opens chuckhagel.com, calling defense secretary nominee’s record on Israel into question

By Joshua Davidovich and AP

December 20, 2012
10:26 am

Chuck Hagel, at podium, speaking at a conference in May. (photo credit: Glenn Fawcett/Department of Defense)

Opposition to Hagel nomination grows, but supporters rally around likely defense chief pick

Washington Post claims Obama’s choice for Pentagon is ‘well to the left’ of the president, while defenders argue he is pro-Israel ‘but knows the grim costs of going to war without a plan’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

September 7, 2012
9:55 pm

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are joined by their children Sasha, left, and Malia at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC, in September (photo credit: AP Photo/David Goldman)

Jewish Democrats still unhappy with corrected party platform, which omits clauses on Hamas, refugees and borders

Complains one veteran activist: They did not reinsert language saying Israel is our most reliable ally in the Middle East

By Haviv Rettig Gur

September 4, 2012
10:50 pm

President Barack Obama (photo credit: Shutterstock)

Democratic Party platform stripped of key pro-Israel policy statements, Republicans charge

Romney denounces Democrats for ‘embracing President Obama’s shameful refusal to acknowledge that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

June 20, 2012
7:34 am

'Joe the Plumber' aka Samuel Wurzelbacher is running for Congress in Ohio (photo credit: Courtesy Joe for Congress website)

Mitt Romney, Joe the Plumber draw the ire of Jewish Democrats

Republican groups criticize Obama on Iran and Israel as the 2012 US presidential race heats up

By Ari Ben Goldberg

March 23, 2012
10:54 pm

J Street conference aims ‘to put two-state solution back on map’

The ‘pro-Israel, pro-peace’ lobby kicks off its third annual meet on Saturday

By Ari Ben Goldberg

March 5, 2012
10:28 am

Counterattack against criticism in pro-Israel group’s NY Times ad

Outrage expressed at the the Emergency Committee for Israel’s ‘divisive attack’