You Saw This Headline Coming, Right?
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Obama to Tap Clinton After ThanksgivingWasn't this administration supposed to be one of non-abuse?...
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Goldberg's Hillary Wish
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One of the few things said by Jeffrey Goldberg with which I can agree:-The Palestinians suffer sometimes from the irrational hope that America's support for Israel is mutable, and that the key to success is to bring about direct American pressure on Israel.and one I cannot (his Hillary wish):-...The...
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Clinton State Department: Arab-Americans Need Not Apply
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I wish I could remember where I first read this critique of State Department personnel decisions regarding the Middle East. In past administrations, you could find many Jews dealing with Israeli-Arab affairs: Aaron David Miller, Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk, Richard Haas, Dan Kurtzer, Sam Lewis, etc....
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Will Obama save the Middle East?
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The New Yorker thinks all these big names might work: The team of Barack (Grandpa Was a Muslim) Obama, Hillary (I’m a Clinton) Clinton, and Rahm (Israel) Emanuel (that’s his real middle name! and he was a volunteer with the I.D.F. during the 1991 Gulf War!), with Joe Biden and Bill Clinton pitch...
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What We've Been Expecting: Scowcroft & Brzezinski
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Excerpts and, of course, my comments in bracketed italics:Middle East Priorities For Jan. 21...When Obama takes office in two months, he will find a number of difficult foreign policy issues competing for his attention, each with strong advocates among his advisers. We believe that the Arab-Israeli ...
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U.S. Government Subsidizes Settler Pogromists: Your Tax Dollars at Work
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The accompanying B’Tselem video should make your stomach turn and call to mind what a Kristallnacht perpetrated by Jews might resemble. These are citizens of the State of Israel who treat its authorities with utter contempt, not to mention shower them with violence: Settler desecration of H...
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It’s Madame Secretary for Hillary, But Which Hillary Will It Be?
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The N.Y. Times reports that Hillary Clinton has accepted Barack Obama’s invitation to be his secretary of state. This development will no doubt rankle some on the left who campaigned hard for Obama’s election. I’m concerned too. I wonder which Hillary will be secretary of stat...
go to article »November 25, 2008
Sundays Are For The Gym (Not For “Faith Experience”)
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Politico reports:President-elect Barack Obama has yet to attend church services since winning the White House earlier this month, a departure from the example of his two immediate predecessors. On the three Sundays since his election, Obama has instead used his free time to get in workouts at a Chi...
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‘Chekhovian Resolution’: Donald Byrd Speaks on Israel-Palestine
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Byrd's Chekhovian Resolution: can dance capture the blood, pain and suffering of this conflict? (Mike Urban/Seattle PI) Last Saturday, I attended an amazing artistic event. Donald Byrd’s contemporary dance group, Spectrum Dance Theater, performed his political-artistic meditation on the Isra...
go to article »November 23, 2008
Egypt: Shaaban Sings for Obama
Shaaban Abdel Rehim, the illiterate Egyptian singer whose songs are mainly about political and social issues, has released a new song about the new American President-Elect Barack Obama. Tarek Amr looks at the blogosphere's reactions to Abdel Rehim's newest hit.
