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AIPAC attendees standing and cheering Donald Trump at the policy conference in Washington on March 21, 2016. (screen capture: AIPAC/JLTV)
March 22, 2017, 2:19 am
AIPAC confab to seek bipartisan spirit in deeply polarized capital
On agenda for March 26-28 pro-Israel lobby conference: Iran, boycott efforts, foreign assistance, but no mention of two states
By Ron Kampeas
US President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on September 29, 2016 as he departs for Israel to attend the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)
September 30, 2016, 1:06 am
Obama takes off for Peres funeral leading 33-strong US delegation
US president, accompanied by 18 lawmakers and over a dozen top officials, will deliver the ceremony’s final eulogy
By TOI staff
Knesset member Ahmad Tibi of the Joint (Arab) List meets with US officials at the White House on February 4, 2016. (courtesy)
February 4, 2016, 11:20 pm
In DC, Arab MK blasts Israel’s ‘systemic’ discrimination
Ahmad Tibi says cabinet unsupportive of two-state solution, claims his party is the only one in Knesset to pursue that goal
By Tamar Pileggi
In this April 1, 2015, file photo, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, right, speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry, center, and Robert Malley, left, then-senior director for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf States at the US National Security Council, on the sidelines of the Iran nuclear talks at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron, File)
December 11, 2015, 2:44 pm
Dropped for meeting Hamas, Rob Malley is now Obama’s ‘czar’ for tackling Islamic State
7 years ago, Malley ended his role as informal adviser to presidential campaign after it emerged he’d been holding talks with Gaza’s Islamist rulers, considered a terror group by US
By Josh Lederman
Barack Obama, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in 2013. (Pete Souza/The White House/File)
November 8, 2015, 4:29 am
Netanyahu expected to sell Obama on goodwill gestures to Palestinians
Confidence-building measures to include easing checkpoints and green-lighting projects, but not settlement freeze, according to Israeli report
By TOI staff, AP and AFP
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right), talks to a journalist from a balcony of the Palais Coburg Hotel in Vienna, Austria, on July 10, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)
July 12, 2015, 10:18 pm
Nuclear talks require ‘some more work,’ says Zarif
Iranian negotiator rejects reports that deal can be signed Sunday, but says no extension; Rouhani announces ‘settlement of nuclear issue’ is ‘very close’
By TOI staff and AFP
Robert Malley, the Obama administration's new National Security Council senior director. (screen capture: YouTube)
March 8, 2015, 3:13 pm
White House names Israel critic to top Mideast post
Robert Malley, to become NSC point person on Middle East, has drawn fire for saying the Palestinians weren’t at fault for the failed peace talks in 2000
By JTA
Robert Malley, the Obama administration's new National Security Council senior director. (screen capture: YouTube)
February 19, 2014, 12:52 pm
Obama’s newest Mideast appointee gets mixed reception
Rob Malley, the administration’s hope for saving US-Persian Gulf relations, will first have to win over his domestic detractors
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
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