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The Times of Israel

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Writer: Jim Kuhnhenn

April 20, 2013
1:28 pm

US President Barack Obama speaks in the Brady Press Briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, April 19, 2013, regarding the Boston Marathon bombing. (Photo credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama hails America’s character, asks why the Boston killers resorted to violence

US president praises acts of heroism and love throughout ordeal, wonders what motivated the bombers, ‘who grew up and studied here as part of our communities’

By Jim Kuhnhenn

March 12, 2013
2:20 am

The White House in Washington DC (photo credit:Rachael Cerrotti/Flash90)

Obama meets Arab-Americans ahead of Mideast trip

President treating visit as an ‘exploratory trip,’ says participant; White House: Ramallah visit is an opportunity to demonstrate US commitment to the Palestinian people

By Jim Kuhnhenn

November 19, 2012
11:15 am

US Senator Lindsey Graham (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Senator Graham threatens US will cut off Egypt aid unless it reins in Hamas

Joseph Lieberman downplays risk of Israeli ground incursion

By Anne Flaherty and Jim Kuhnhenn

September 14, 2012
1:45 am

US President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally in Golden, Colo., in September. (photo credit: Ed Andrieski/AP)

For Barack Obama, it’s 1979 all over again

Images of Muslim extremists storming an American embassy recall the Iranian revolution and force the US president to focus on foreign policy

By Jim Kuhnhenn