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Tampa Mayor Buckhorn traveling to Israel, but not Palestine listen

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Tags: Bob Buckhorn, Israel, Palestine, jobs, AIPAC

As Tampa continues to struggle with the rest of the country to find jobs for its citizens, Mayor Bob Buckhorn is reaching out to Israel. During a press conference Tuesday night the Mayor provided details about his trip.

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn says he is traveling to Israel to strengthen relationships with the country in an effort to attract businesses to the area. For example, a lot of the equipment that will be used in USF’s [Center for ...

In speech to Congress, Netanyahu says Palestinian refugees can't return home listen

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Tags: Palestine, Israel, Barack Obama, Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu, AIPAC

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress today. Many of his positions on an eventual Palestinian state are in opposition to those laid out last week by President Barack Obama. Netanyahu reiterated Israel would not use its pre-1967 borders as a starting point in negotiations. In 1967 Israel seized the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem during the six-day war. But Netanyahu said Israel would not give back any part of Jerusalem and would maintai...

CIA vet Michael Scheuer says Afghan war is already lost

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Tags: Afhanistan, NATO, Clinton, Bush, bin-Laden, Al Quaeda, Michael Scheuer, heroin, narco-state, Hamid Karzai, AIPAC, Israel, surge, Iraq, Iran

Good afternoon, welcome to WMNF 's Radioactivity, I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll talk about the war in Afghanistan with Michael Scheuer, author of the book Marching Toward Hell.

But first some listener comments about the last few 1 p.m. programs. We’ll hear comments about the state’s budget problems, a possible new source of renewable energy, electioneering by a local public officials, the proposed landfill in East Pasco County, and the closing of the military prison at Guantanamo....

McCain campaign takes aim at Obama listen

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Tags: John McCain, Barack Obama, AIPAC, 2008 election, Iran, Joe Lieberman

The campaign of Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, responded to Senator Barack Obama’s speech to AIPAC on a conference call today.

Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, who was the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 2000, said there was a disconnect in what Obama said about Iran on Wednesday compared to things he has said or done earlier in the campaign or in the Senate.

“I was troubled earlier in the year, during the campaign season when Sen...