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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 621

Colin Powell

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden watch the casket during a funeral for former Secretary of State Colin Powell at the Washington National Cathedral, in Washington, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. At right are former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
November 5, 2021, 9:05 pm
Family, friends gather for funeral of trailblazing soldier-diplomat Colin Powell
Those in attendance at Washington National Cathedral include former presidents Bush and Obama, former secretaries of state Baker, Rice and Clinton and ex-defense secretary Gates
By Robert Burns and Matthew Lee
Then-US secretary of state Colin Powell holds up a vial he said could contain anthrax as he presents evidence of Iraq's alleged weapons programs to the United Nations Security Council, on February 5, 2003. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
October 18, 2021, 11:50 pm
‘He lied’: Many Iraqis still blame Colin Powell for role in Iraq war
Former US secretary of state remembered for speech to UN justifying 2003 invasion: ‘A whole country was destroyed, and we continue to pay the price’
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Zeina Karam
US Secretary of State Colin Powell (left) meets with Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon on February 25, 2001. (Shauli Shem-Tov/Flash90)
October 18, 2021, 6:39 pm
Colin Powell dead at 84: An Israel admirer, he pushed for compromises for peace
Former US secretary of state who brokered ‘road map’ to Mideast peace, which still informs much of US policy in region, was also 1st military chief to speak Yiddish as 2nd language
By JTA and ToI Staff
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses a press conference at Katunayake Military Airport in Colombo, January 7, 2005. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP)
October 18, 2021, 4:31 pm
Former US secretary of state Colin Powell dies of COVID at 84
US war hero’s family says he was fully vaccinated, but succumbed to complications of COVID-19
By Frankie TAGGART
In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 file photo, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, leads New York Gov. George Pataki, left, and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., on a tour of the site of the World Trade Center disaster (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
September 8, 2021, 7:18 pm
They were some of 9/11’s biggest names. Where are they now?
A look at some of the people who came to the fore in wake of world-altering attacks, and what they’ve been up to since
By JERRY SCHWARTZ
Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former US secretary of state Colin Powell speaks at the State Department in Washington, September 3, 2014. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
June 8, 2020, 1:06 am
Colin Powell to vote for Biden, says Trump has ‘drifted’ from constitution
Retired four-star army general calls on Republican senators to stand up to US president; former secretary of state Rice urges Trump to use ‘language of unity’
By Jim Mannion
Former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton speaks during a portrait unveiling ceremony for outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), on Capitol Hill December 8, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)
January 11, 2017, 3:00 am
In subtle rebuke to Trump, Clinton extols diplomacy
At State Department event, former secretary hints at Russia as threat to a ‘whole, free and at peace’ Europe
By Lisa Lerer
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (R) talks to her staff as aide Huma Abedin listens on board their campaign plane at the Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, before leaving for campaign rallies on October 28, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/Jewel SAMAD)
October 29, 2016, 4:37 pm
What we know about FBI’s new Clinton email inquiry
US official says messages uncovered in unrelated sexting probe into Anthony Weiner, estranged spouse of Democratic nominee’s top aide
By AP
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 25, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
October 16, 2016, 1:22 am
Thousands of leaked Clinton emails a window into campaign’s inner workings
From Hillary Clinton’s comments to bankers to the mishandling of the emails controversy: What we learned from the hack of campaign chair John Podesta
By Matthew Daly
Emily B. Landau
October 13, 2016, 2:26 pm
Emily B. Landau
That so-called Israeli support for the Iran deal
Claims by Barack Obama, Tim Kaine and others that IDF brass are pro-JCPOA are potentially dangerous distortions
In this photo taken Nov. 9, 2011, former Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks in New York. (AP Photo/Eric Reichbaum)
September 17, 2016, 2:19 am
Israel, US mum on Powell’s assessment that Israel has 200 nukes
After leak of email in which he gauges size of Jewish state’s alleged atomic arsenal, former secretary of state stresses it was sent 10 years after he left office
By Judah Ari Gross and AP
Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former US secretary of state Colin Powell speaks at the State Department in Washington, September 3, 2014. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
September 15, 2016, 10:09 pm
In leaked emails, Colin Powell says Israel has 200 nukes
While discussing Iran nuclear deal, former secretary of state apparently reveals extent of Jewish state’s alleged atomic arsenal
By Judah Ari Gross
Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former US secretary of state Colin Powell speaks at the State Department in Washington, September 3, 2014. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
September 15, 2016, 6:49 am
In leaked emails, Powell calls Trump a ‘national disgrace’
Retired general and ex-secretary of state also takes on Clinton, saying: ‘everything [she] touches she kind of screws up with hubris’
By Jeff Horwitz and Michael Biesecker
March 18, 2016, 4:59 am
Obama, Elvis and 5 other famous ‘Shabbos goys’
The politicians and celebrities who have been helping Jews observe Shabbat by turning off lights and flipping on the A/C
By Uriel Heilman
Colin Powell and Debbie Wasserman Schultz in images taken on September 3, 2015 (Carolyn Kaster/AP; Joel Auerbach/ AP)
September 6, 2015, 6:41 pm
Powell, Wasserman Schultz support Iran nuclear deal
Former secretary of state calls deal ‘pretty good,’ while Jewish lawmaker says it’s the best way to keep US and Israel safe
By AP
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