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Secretary of State

Henry Kissinger discusses the Vietnam War at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, April 26, 2016. Photo by Marsha Miller/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Kissinger denies holding back resupply during Yom Kippur War

The former secretary of state called the accusation "total nonsense."

May 30, 2023

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the Wye River Conference Center during the Wye River Memorandum talks, Oct. 16, 1998. Credit: U.S. Government, Department of Defense via Wikimedia Commons.

Hillary Clinton tries to rewrite history

It is strategically disastrous to coddle Palestinian Arab dictators, abandon victims of terrorism and heap one-sided pressure on Israel.

Stephen M. Flatow

March 28, 2022

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in 1998. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Madeleine Albright’s role in Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy reverberates to this day

Later in her career, the diplomat acknowledged her failures in forging peace with Israel, saying that while there are a number of different ways to deal with it, the “way for these two peoples to live together it is on the table, it has been there, and I think it requires the political will.

Dovid Zaklikowski

March 25, 2022

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the Wye River Conference Center during the Wye River Memorandum talks, Oct. 16, 1998. Credit: U.S. Government, Department of Defense via Wikimedia Commons.

Madeleine Albright, first female US secretary of state, dies of cancer at age 88

“The impact she has had on this building is felt every single day in every single corridor,” said U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price.

March 23, 2022

Henry Kissinger discusses the Vietnam War at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, April 26, 2016. Photo by Marsha Miller/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Strangle Israel, get a great speaking gig

With his past record on U.S.-Israel relations, why is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger addressing Temple Emanu-El in New York City?

October 18, 2021

U.S. President Ronald Reagan with Secretary of State George Shultz outside the Oval Office on Dec. 4, 1986. Credit: Reagan White House Photographic Collection via Wikimedia Commons.

Master diplomat George Shultz, and his interworking with Soviet and Jewish affairs

World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder once asked the longtime U.S. statesman, who passed away at the age of 100 on Feb. 6, why he stood up for American and Israeli Jews when he was often pressured not to. He responded: “Because I thought you were right.”

Dovid Zaklikowski

February 16, 2021

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is sworn in as the 71st U.S. Secretary of State by Acting Under Secretary of State for Management Carol Z. Perez at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 26, 2021. Credit: U.S. Department of State via Wikimedia Commons.

US Secretary of State Blinken talks with Israeli counterpart in one of first diplomatic calls

The two were said to have discussed “regional strategic matters, the Iranian threat and other topics.”

January 27, 2021

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) delivering a speech at the American Muslims for Palestine convention in Chicago on Nov. 30, 2019. Credit: American Muslims for Palestine.

Tlaib accused of anti-Semitism over response to Biden’s secretary of state pick

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) says she is fine with Anthony Blinken as long as he doesn’t “suppress her First Amendment right” to criticize the Israeli prime minister’s “racist and inhumane policies.”

Sefi Fishman

November 24, 2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, confirmed on April 26, 2018. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

Jewish groups weigh in on Pompeo for secretary of state

Contrasting Mike Pompeo with Rex Tillerson, who reportedly opposed U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

March 15, 2018