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WASHINGTON - Newt Gingrich will address the AIPAC policy conference.
The former US House of Representatives speaker, who is trailing in the race for the Republican presidential nod, is the first in the GOP field to announce his participation in the March 4-6 conference.
Gingrich is slated to speak March 5, a day after US President Barack Obama.
The last time a challenger faced an incumbent, when Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) was running against President George W. Bush in 2004, AIPAC said its policy was not to allow challengers to speak. But the AIPAC board has ended the policy, a source close to the lobby told JTA, in part because Kerry and his supporters among AIPAC donors were furious at the snub.
AIPAC spokesman Patrick Dorton confirmed the policy change.
KABUL - The Taliban urged Afghans on Thursday to target foreign military bases, and beat and kill Westerners in retaliation for burnings of copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country.
"Our brave people must target the military bases of invader forces, their military convoys and their invader bases," read an e-mailed Taliban statement to media released by spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
"They have to kill them (Westerners), beat them and capture them to give them a lesson to never dare desecrate the holy Koran again."
BAGHDAD - A car bomb struck an area of central Baghdad on Thursday, killing seven people and wounding 24, Iraqi police said.
The attack occurred in the mostly Shi'ite Muslim district of Karrada. Police said the death toll might rise.
Strauss Group chairwoman Ofra Strauss was set to meet Thursday morning with representatives of the "Israel is Dear to Us" group, that lead the struggle to decrease the prices of the company's prices.
The movement made it clear that if Strauss does not meet their demands, they intend to call for a consumer boycott on Strauss products.
The move is a response to revelations of prices of its products in the US that are tens of percentage points lower than in Israel.
Talking to journalists, Strauss Israel representatives said Wednesday that the US retailer buys most of the products that it exports at higher prices than those at which the Israeli retailer buys them.
Nevertheless, contrary to its earlier statements that it does not set the price to the consumer, that its US sales are via a distributor, and that the prices in question were a bargain special, Strauss admitted that it sells some products, among them Pesek Zman chocolate bars, at lower prices in the US.
MESA, Ariz, - US Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich on Wednesday lent their support to the idea of arming the Syrian opposition in its fight to topple President Bashar Assad.
Speaking at a CNN debate in Mesa, Arizona, Romney said the United States needed to team up with allies to help the rebels.
"We need to work with Saudi Arabia and with Turkey to say, 'You guys provide the kind of weaponry that's needed to help the rebels inside Syria,'" the former Massachusetts governor said.
The Republican seen most likely to face US President Barack Obama in November's presidential election, Romney said such support was needed to turn Syria away from Iran at a critical time when Tehran was possibly trying to develop nuclear weapons.
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