Word: pro-israel
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...determined to make a major issue of Bush's foreign policy competence, the President seems ready to leap at the chance to refresh the landscape and make his own history. He had deliberately diverged from the Middle East course set by his two predecessors when he hired an unabashedly pro-Israel staff. "I'm all for conferences," Bush said in a 2004 appearance with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, "just so long as the conferences produce something." George H.W. Bush and his Secretary of State James Baker were seen as heroes by some Palestinians; Bill Clinton made the quest...
...attacks to U.S. support for Israel. She wrote to the prince, apologized for Giuliani's rebuff and said she could use his money to help African-Americans. Fomenting more ill will, she later suggested that the Bush Administration may have had advance knowledge about the attacks. This energized pro-Israel activists, long critical of McKinney's voting record on the Jewish state, and in 2002 she was upset in the Democratic primary by Denise Majette. She regained the seat two years later after Majette opted for an unsuccessful Senate...
...caused by that paper, which argues that US foreign policy is excessively pro-Israel, was unrelated to Walt’s resignation, which had been planned before the paper’s release, Ellwood has said...
...role of Arab oil interests in U.S. policy and overstated the power of the lobby in the face of business interests.Aside from disputes about the existence of the lobby, much of the debate has centered on accusations that the paper is anti-Semitic. The claim that a network of pro-Israel groups control policy, critics say, evokes stereotypes of a Jewish conspiracy.Dershowitz wrote that claims by Walt and Mearsheimer “are contemporary variations on old themes such as those promulgated in the notorious czarist forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in the Nazi and America First...
...charges were part of a politically motivated campaign by a hard-left, anti-Israel academic who was falsely charging “plagiarism” against me and several other pro-Israel writers. The false charge was that I found several quotations—by Mark Twain, Lord Peel, and others—in a secondary source, but cited them to the primary sources in which they originally appeared. That is the citation method approved by The Chicago Manual of Style. Moreover, I cited the secondary source eight times and was using several of the quotes years before the secondary...