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Five Outrages in Bernie Sanders’s Undelivered AIPAC Speech

TEL AVIV – Earlier this week, Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign released the text of the speech he would have given had he attended this week’s annual convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Sanders, the sole Jewish candidate in this year’s presidential elections and the first Jewish politician to ever win a presidential primary, was also the only presidential candidate not to speak at AIPAC’s conference.

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Watch: Entire Donald Trump AIPAC Speech

Monday in Washington, D.C., Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference. Transcript as follows: Good evening. Thank you very much. I speak to you today as a lifelong supporter and true friend of Israel. (CHEERS, APPLAUSE)

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AIPAC: Grading the 2016 Candidates

Each of the remaining presidential candidates delivered an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference on Monday. And each, in their own way, did well.

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Mr. Trump Goes To Washington

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is acting “presidential” as he spends Monday in the nation’s capital, holding a meeting with Republican Congressmen, as well as a press conference and speaking at America’s Pro-Israel Lobby (AIPAC).

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Hillary Accuses Trump of ‘Playing Coy With White Supremacists’

Monday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual policy conference, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, referring to him as a “bully,” accused Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of “encouraging violence” and “playing coy with white supremacists.” Clinton said, “Now,

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Jewish State Probing Whether Istanbul Bomb Targeted Israelis

TEL AVIV – Israel is investigating whether the suicide bombing that killed three Israeli tourists in Istanbul specifically targeted the Israelis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday night. “We are of course trying to get intelligence on whether the terror attack

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Bernie Sanders To Skip Pro-Israel AIPAC Conference

Bernie Sanders confirmed Friday afternoon that he will not attend a major pro-Israel conference in Washington next week. Sanders, the first Jewish politician to ever win a presidential primary, is the only remaining 2016 contender who will not speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a major gathering for politicians and Jewish leaders every year.

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Ted Cruz: ‘Trump Scared to Debate Me’

WASHINGTON—Ted Cruz is challenging Donald Trump to debate him in a long-form venue that would get past slogans and instead tackle policy and substance, taunting the businessman by saying, “He’s scared to debate me.”

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Donald Trump Invite Roils Pro-Israel AIPAC Conference

Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump pulled out of next week’s GOP debate in Salt Lake City, prompting its cancelation, so that he could address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual policy conference in Washington. D.C. But many of AIPAC’s pro-Israel activists are upset — so much so, in fact, that organizers have had to remind them to remain polite when he speaks.

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NIAC’s Trita Parsi Slams AIPAC After Garnering Support for Iran Deal

Trita Parsi, the founder and president of pro-Iranian regime lobbyist group NIAC (National Iranian American Council), celebrated the fact that three more liberal, Democratic senators–two of whom are Jewish–threw their support behind President Barack Obama’s fatally flawed nuclear Iran Deal by taking a jab at pro-Israel lobbyist organization AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) over his personal Facebook page.

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Blue State Blues: A Senate Without Virtue, or Pride

The Iran deal will fail to muster enough votes to override an anticipated presidential veto. In the Senate, it may even fail to gather enough votes to stop Democrats from filibustering. The fact that Minority Leader Harry Reid wants to protect his members from having to vote on the Iran deal at all tells us exactly how bad it is. But it also tells us how weak the Republican opposition to the Iran deal has been from the start. And there must be political consequences.

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Iran Deal: AIPAC Official Blames Netanyahu’s Speech

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby group long seen as one of the most powerful organizations in Washington, is blaming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech in March for the imminent passage of the Iran deal.

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Liberals Want DNC Chairwoman to Resign

Very much like her long-time friend and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who is losing support from the far left element of the Democratic Party, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is also receiving significant pushback from this same faction of her political party.

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AIPAC Vows to Fight Iran Deal ‘With the Entirety of Our Institutional Resources’

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the most influential pro-Israel group in the U.S. and one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in Washington, told key leaders on a conference call Wednesday that it would fight the Iran deal “with the entirety of our institutional resources.” AIPAC had said the day before that it needed time to study the details of the 159-page Iran nuclear agreement.

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