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3. Politico Obama's Fight with Israel: This Time It's Serious Robert Satloff Article 4. The Wall Street Journal Is Rouhani the New Gorbachev? Natan Sharansky Article 5. Los Angeles Times Israel's policy of erasure Saree Makdisi Article 6. The National Interest Why Pakistan Won't Sell Saudi the Bomb
also lit Hanukkah candles in the White House. I then contrasted President Clinton’s warm actions with the response I received from former President Gorbachev several years earlier. I had been invited to speak at an international conference in the Kremlin, during the week of the Jewish New Year. I invited t
sonally. He was a Soviet Jew who I never even met during the years I was fighting to save his life. His name (at the time) was Anatoly Sharansky (now Natan Sharansky). Sharansky was a prominent and vocal defender of human rights, not only of his fellow Soviet Jews but of all victims of Soviet oppression. He worke
nto the same elevator. Remarkably, Mickael Gorbachev was also on the elevator. (I knew it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke: “Havel, Sharansky, Gorbachev and Dershowitz get into an elevator.”) Gorbachev turned to me and said, “You’re the big shot lawyer who tried to get these people out of prison. You
others, we managed to get the whole family out. We have remained close friends since that time. Another close friend who started out as a client is Natan Sharansky, now a cabinet member of the Israeli government. When I represented him his name was Anatoly Sharansky and he was an imprisoned Soviet refusenick. Hi
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