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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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103 Congress members to Israel in 2005
More than 100 members of Congress visited Israel in 2005.
In his summary to the Israeli Cabinet this week on relations with the United States, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said 23 U.S. senators and 80 members of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Israel last year, some multiple times.
“The legislative branch has maintained its unique and long-standing status as a stronghold of support for Israel, transcending party lines and Congressional houses,” he said.
Bush signs pact with Israel clause
President Bush signed a free trade agreement with Bahrain that conditions the pact on ending the boycott with Israel.
The agreement signed into law Wednesday monitors Bahrain’s compliance with ending all forms of boycott with Israel. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee helped shepherd the agreement through Congress in hopes it would set a precedent for other Arab nations angling for free trade pacts with the United States.
Miller leaves Seeds of Peace
Aaron David Miller resigned as president of Seeds of Peace, a conflict resolution group.
Miller, a longtime Middle East adviser to the U.S. State Department who helped guide the Oslo peace process, became president of Seeds of Peace in 2003.
He helped expand the group’s original mission from bringing together Arab and Jewish youths, and the group now works in the south Asian, Cypriot and Bosnian arenas.
Miller, who is Jewish, will be a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a think tank founded by Congress. He is writing a book about the United States and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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