Washington Views
@washingtonviews.bsky.social
After almost 40 years; now FORMER AIPAC staffer! My views are MY views! Likes/Reposts are NOT Endorsements! Focus on History, US-Israel, Zionism, AIPAC & Antisemitism. See michaellewisonline.substack.com
AIPAC's Leadership met today in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu israelnationalnews.com/flashes/670843 #Israel #Netanyahu #AIPAC @aipac1.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
AIPAC's Leadership met today in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu israelnationalnews.com/flashes/670843 #Israel #Netanyahu #AIPAC @aipac1.bsky.social
ON THIS DAY" - NOVEMBER 18
1977: Eve of Anwar Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem. (Arrived in Israel November 19) www.nytimes.com/.../sadat-go....
- Pres. Carter Nov 18, Letter to President Sadat history.state.gov/historicald....
- Carter Nov 18, Letter to PM Begin - history.state.gov/historicald....
1977: Eve of Anwar Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem. (Arrived in Israel November 19) www.nytimes.com/.../sadat-go....
- Pres. Carter Nov 18, Letter to President Sadat history.state.gov/historicald....
- Carter Nov 18, Letter to PM Begin - history.state.gov/historicald....
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
ON THIS DAY" - NOVEMBER 18
1977: Eve of Anwar Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem. (Arrived in Israel November 19) www.nytimes.com/.../sadat-go....
- Pres. Carter Nov 18, Letter to President Sadat history.state.gov/historicald....
- Carter Nov 18, Letter to PM Begin - history.state.gov/historicald....
1977: Eve of Anwar Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem. (Arrived in Israel November 19) www.nytimes.com/.../sadat-go....
- Pres. Carter Nov 18, Letter to President Sadat history.state.gov/historicald....
- Carter Nov 18, Letter to PM Begin - history.state.gov/historicald....
J Street's Jeremy Ben-Ami- "The Greatest Threat to American Jewish Life Isn’t Criticism of Israel - It’s time for American Jewish leadership to center the fight that actually safeguards our future: defending the liberal democratic system" jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/the-greate... - My Response ..
November 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
J Street's Jeremy Ben-Ami- "The Greatest Threat to American Jewish Life Isn’t Criticism of Israel - It’s time for American Jewish leadership to center the fight that actually safeguards our future: defending the liberal democratic system" jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/the-greate... - My Response ..
#OnThisDay in 1977: An amazing moment! Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat is coming to Israel. The formal invitation from Israeli PM, Menachem Begin to Sadat is announced. 4 days later Sadat lands in Israel. VIDEO: Begin talking about the invitation www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngkk... #israel #egypt
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#OnThisDay in 1977: An amazing moment! Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat is coming to Israel. The formal invitation from Israeli PM, Menachem Begin to Sadat is announced. 4 days later Sadat lands in Israel. VIDEO: Begin talking about the invitation www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngkk... #israel #egypt
#OnThisDay - November 9...
1923: Adolf Hitler's attempted "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
1938: Kristallnacht: The "Night of Broken Glass" Holocaust Museum encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCP...
1923: Adolf Hitler's attempted "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
1938: Kristallnacht: The "Night of Broken Glass" Holocaust Museum encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCP...
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
#OnThisDay - November 9...
1923: Adolf Hitler's attempted "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
1938: Kristallnacht: The "Night of Broken Glass" Holocaust Museum encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCP...
1923: Adolf Hitler's attempted "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
1938: Kristallnacht: The "Night of Broken Glass" Holocaust Museum encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCP...
Flashback 30 Years today... #OnThisDay in 1995: The "Jerusalem Embassy Act" becomes US law. (It just took another almost-25 years before President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo actually moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem) www.congress.gov/104/plaws/pu... #Jerusalem #Israel
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Flashback 30 Years today... #OnThisDay in 1995: The "Jerusalem Embassy Act" becomes US law. (It just took another almost-25 years before President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo actually moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem) www.congress.gov/104/plaws/pu... #Jerusalem #Israel
Israel's Critics, Detractors and Others: Some of my Responses to Various Posts -November 7, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/michaell... #Israel #AntiZionism
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Israel's Critics, Detractors and Others: Some of my Responses to Various Posts -November 7, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/michaell... #Israel #AntiZionism
Congratulations to the winners of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) "Bernard Lewis Prize:" NGO Monitor's Gerald Steinberg & Franck Salameh and the "Fouad Ajami Prize" Masih Alinejad & Peter Theroux. Thanks Asaf Romirowsky, ASMEA & Michelle Ajami
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Congratulations to the winners of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) "Bernard Lewis Prize:" NGO Monitor's Gerald Steinberg & Franck Salameh and the "Fouad Ajami Prize" Masih Alinejad & Peter Theroux. Thanks Asaf Romirowsky, ASMEA & Michelle Ajami
My weekly selective/eclectic compilation of "Critics and Responses" - "Israel's Critics, Detractors and Others: Some Responses to them. Some #OnThisDayFlashbacks." Offering the personal perspective of a former, almost 40-year-long, #AIPAC researcher open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
October 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My weekly selective/eclectic compilation of "Critics and Responses" - "Israel's Critics, Detractors and Others: Some Responses to them. Some #OnThisDayFlashbacks." Offering the personal perspective of a former, almost 40-year-long, #AIPAC researcher open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
AIPAC #OnThisDay (Oct 28)...2025: AIPAC Delegation in Taiwan...1981: The AWACS Vote: The "transformational" point for AIPAC: ..2024: Former @aipac1.bsky.social Senior Staffer Steve Rosen dies at age 82...2024: #AIPAC launches its online store! michaellewisonline.substack.com/p/noting-the...
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
AIPAC #OnThisDay (Oct 28)...2025: AIPAC Delegation in Taiwan...1981: The AWACS Vote: The "transformational" point for AIPAC: ..2024: Former @aipac1.bsky.social Senior Staffer Steve Rosen dies at age 82...2024: #AIPAC launches its online store! michaellewisonline.substack.com/p/noting-the...
One would have to be blind not to have noticed the increasing and intense "Denigration, demonization and Delegitimization" efforts against AIPAC these last few years, with of course, some success! Flashback 6 years... #OnThisDay in 2019 from #AIPAC @aipac1.bsky.social x.com/AIPAC/status... #USIsrael
October 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
One would have to be blind not to have noticed the increasing and intense "Denigration, demonization and Delegitimization" efforts against AIPAC these last few years, with of course, some success! Flashback 6 years... #OnThisDay in 2019 from #AIPAC @aipac1.bsky.social x.com/AIPAC/status... #USIsrael
Flashback 80 years... #OnThisDay in 1945: @jta.org on a new magazine #Commentary published by @ajcglobal.bsky.social "'[C]ommentary', New Monthly Magazine, Published; Incorporates “contemporary Jewish Record." Issue 1 included George Orwell & Editor, Elliot Cohen www.commentary.org/issues/novem...
October 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Flashback 80 years... #OnThisDay in 1945: @jta.org on a new magazine #Commentary published by @ajcglobal.bsky.social "'[C]ommentary', New Monthly Magazine, Published; Incorporates “contemporary Jewish Record." Issue 1 included George Orwell & Editor, Elliot Cohen www.commentary.org/issues/novem...
#OnThisDay - OCT 17
1994: Jordan's King Hussein & Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin initial peace deal
2000: Failed Sharm El-Sheikh summit
2001: PFLP assassinate Israeli Cabinet Minister
1933: Albert Einstein arrives in US/Institute for Advanced Study
1973: OPEC Oil Embargo +Price Surge
1994: Jordan's King Hussein & Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin initial peace deal
2000: Failed Sharm El-Sheikh summit
2001: PFLP assassinate Israeli Cabinet Minister
1933: Albert Einstein arrives in US/Institute for Advanced Study
1973: OPEC Oil Embargo +Price Surge
October 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#OnThisDay - OCT 17
1994: Jordan's King Hussein & Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin initial peace deal
2000: Failed Sharm El-Sheikh summit
2001: PFLP assassinate Israeli Cabinet Minister
1933: Albert Einstein arrives in US/Institute for Advanced Study
1973: OPEC Oil Embargo +Price Surge
1994: Jordan's King Hussein & Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin initial peace deal
2000: Failed Sharm El-Sheikh summit
2001: PFLP assassinate Israeli Cabinet Minister
1933: Albert Einstein arrives in US/Institute for Advanced Study
1973: OPEC Oil Embargo +Price Surge
"AS A JEW" (Updated) - The “As A Jew” argument when it comes to “Critiquing” Israel open.substack.com/pub/michaell... #Israel #Jews #AntiZionism @timesofisrael.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"AS A JEW" (Updated) - The “As A Jew” argument when it comes to “Critiquing” Israel open.substack.com/pub/michaell... #Israel #Jews #AntiZionism @timesofisrael.com
Zionism will not be deterred by Arab terrorism. Some things don't change very much...From almost 90 years ago (Oct 1938) "Massacres Will Not Halt Zionism, Arabs Told" @jta.org reporting the the comments of Jewish Agency's Moshe Shertok -later Israeli Foreign Minister & Prime Minister, Moshe Sharett
October 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Zionism will not be deterred by Arab terrorism. Some things don't change very much...From almost 90 years ago (Oct 1938) "Massacres Will Not Halt Zionism, Arabs Told" @jta.org reporting the the comments of Jewish Agency's Moshe Shertok -later Israeli Foreign Minister & Prime Minister, Moshe Sharett
Flashback 5 Years today...AIPAC changes (modernizes) its logo @aipac1.bsky.social #AIPAC
October 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Flashback 5 Years today...AIPAC changes (modernizes) its logo @aipac1.bsky.social #AIPAC
#OnThisDay (Oct 12)...1973: Operation Nickel Grass- The mass US air resupply of Israel - Pres. Nixon’s "Tell them to send everything that can fly"...2000: Attack on USS Cole killing 17 US servicemen...2000: Lynching of 2 IDF Reservists in Ramallah...2002: Bali Nightclub bombing
October 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#OnThisDay (Oct 12)...1973: Operation Nickel Grass- The mass US air resupply of Israel - Pres. Nixon’s "Tell them to send everything that can fly"...2000: Attack on USS Cole killing 17 US servicemen...2000: Lynching of 2 IDF Reservists in Ramallah...2002: Bali Nightclub bombing
#OnThisDay OCT 6 -Happy Sukkot!
1943 - President Roosevelt refuses to meet the 400 Rabbis who came to Washington DC seeking FDR save European Jewry
1973 - Start of “Yom Kippur War”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=118Q...
1981: Assassination Egyptian President Anwar Sadat www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Eb...
1943 - President Roosevelt refuses to meet the 400 Rabbis who came to Washington DC seeking FDR save European Jewry
1973 - Start of “Yom Kippur War”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=118Q...
1981: Assassination Egyptian President Anwar Sadat www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Eb...
October 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
#OnThisDay OCT 6 -Happy Sukkot!
1943 - President Roosevelt refuses to meet the 400 Rabbis who came to Washington DC seeking FDR save European Jewry
1973 - Start of “Yom Kippur War”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=118Q...
1981: Assassination Egyptian President Anwar Sadat www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Eb...
1943 - President Roosevelt refuses to meet the 400 Rabbis who came to Washington DC seeking FDR save European Jewry
1973 - Start of “Yom Kippur War”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=118Q...
1981: Assassination Egyptian President Anwar Sadat www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Eb...
#OnThisDay September 30
1938: "Munich" -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0v1...
Chamberlain returning to England www.youtube.com/watch?v=SetN...
1946: Nuremberg War Crimes Trials - Verdicts and Sentences www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyFi...
2016: Funeral of Shimon Peres www.c-span.org/program/whit...
1938: "Munich" -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0v1...
Chamberlain returning to England www.youtube.com/watch?v=SetN...
1946: Nuremberg War Crimes Trials - Verdicts and Sentences www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyFi...
2016: Funeral of Shimon Peres www.c-span.org/program/whit...
September 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
#OnThisDay September 30
1938: "Munich" -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0v1...
Chamberlain returning to England www.youtube.com/watch?v=SetN...
1946: Nuremberg War Crimes Trials - Verdicts and Sentences www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyFi...
2016: Funeral of Shimon Peres www.c-span.org/program/whit...
1938: "Munich" -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0v1...
Chamberlain returning to England www.youtube.com/watch?v=SetN...
1946: Nuremberg War Crimes Trials - Verdicts and Sentences www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyFi...
2016: Funeral of Shimon Peres www.c-span.org/program/whit...
#OnThisDay - September 28
1995: White House signing ceremony of Israeli-PLO "Oslo II" agreement youtube.com/watch?v=yfrF...
2016: Death of Shimon Peres www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/w...
1970: Death of President Nasser nytimes.com/1970/09/29/a...
2000: Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount
1995: White House signing ceremony of Israeli-PLO "Oslo II" agreement youtube.com/watch?v=yfrF...
2016: Death of Shimon Peres www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/w...
1970: Death of President Nasser nytimes.com/1970/09/29/a...
2000: Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount
September 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
#OnThisDay - September 28
1995: White House signing ceremony of Israeli-PLO "Oslo II" agreement youtube.com/watch?v=yfrF...
2016: Death of Shimon Peres www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/w...
1970: Death of President Nasser nytimes.com/1970/09/29/a...
2000: Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount
1995: White House signing ceremony of Israeli-PLO "Oslo II" agreement youtube.com/watch?v=yfrF...
2016: Death of Shimon Peres www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/w...
1970: Death of President Nasser nytimes.com/1970/09/29/a...
2000: Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount
As the expression goes: "Old wine in a new bottle." #OnThisDay in 1969: Haters of #Israel demonstrating outside the White House as Israeli PM #Golda Meir was meeting with President #Nixon
TEXT: Departure Statements www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...
VIDEO www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYNS...
TEXT: Departure Statements www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...
VIDEO www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYNS...
September 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
As the expression goes: "Old wine in a new bottle." #OnThisDay in 1969: Haters of #Israel demonstrating outside the White House as Israeli PM #Golda Meir was meeting with President #Nixon
TEXT: Departure Statements www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...
VIDEO www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYNS...
TEXT: Departure Statements www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...
VIDEO www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYNS...
"Myths & Facts About AIPAC & Israel" - From @aipac1.bsky.social responding to some recent "critiques" about the organization (where I myself, until a year used to work) #AIPAC #Israel #USIsrael
September 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"Myths & Facts About AIPAC & Israel" - From @aipac1.bsky.social responding to some recent "critiques" about the organization (where I myself, until a year used to work) #AIPAC #Israel #USIsrael
The annual @thejerusalempost.bsky.social
50 Most Influential Jews" ... my former organization @aipac1.bsky.social ... At #43: #AIPAC's new heads: CEO Elliot Brandt, who succeeded Howard Kohr at the beginning of 2025 and President Bernard Kaminetsky jpost.com/influencers-... #JerusalemPost
50 Most Influential Jews" ... my former organization @aipac1.bsky.social ... At #43: #AIPAC's new heads: CEO Elliot Brandt, who succeeded Howard Kohr at the beginning of 2025 and President Bernard Kaminetsky jpost.com/influencers-... #JerusalemPost
September 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The annual @thejerusalempost.bsky.social
50 Most Influential Jews" ... my former organization @aipac1.bsky.social ... At #43: #AIPAC's new heads: CEO Elliot Brandt, who succeeded Howard Kohr at the beginning of 2025 and President Bernard Kaminetsky jpost.com/influencers-... #JerusalemPost
50 Most Influential Jews" ... my former organization @aipac1.bsky.social ... At #43: #AIPAC's new heads: CEO Elliot Brandt, who succeeded Howard Kohr at the beginning of 2025 and President Bernard Kaminetsky jpost.com/influencers-... #JerusalemPost
"Ah...J Street (Continued)! - The perspective of a former (long-time) AIPAC Staffer…Some current and past comments regarding J Street" open.substack.com/pub/michaell... @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @aipac1.bsky.social #AmericanJews #Israel #JStreet #AIPAC
September 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Ah...J Street (Continued)! - The perspective of a former (long-time) AIPAC Staffer…Some current and past comments regarding J Street" open.substack.com/pub/michaell... @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @aipac1.bsky.social #AmericanJews #Israel #JStreet #AIPAC
Flashback 5 Years: #OnThisDay in 2020 - The Signing of the Abraham Accords: The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Israel at the White House with President Trump VIDEO www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBPE...
#AbrahamAccords #MiddleEastPeace #OnThisDay #Israel
#AbrahamAccords #MiddleEastPeace #OnThisDay #Israel
September 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Flashback 5 Years: #OnThisDay in 2020 - The Signing of the Abraham Accords: The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Israel at the White House with President Trump VIDEO www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBPE...
#AbrahamAccords #MiddleEastPeace #OnThisDay #Israel
#AbrahamAccords #MiddleEastPeace #OnThisDay #Israel