TEAM OBAMA CONDUCTED a foreign policy conference call earlier today with Robert Gibbs, Senior Advisor, Obama for America; Michele Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and Colin Kahl, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East. On the call, it was clear the Obama campaign was challenging Mitt Romney to give [...]
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Netanyahu’s ‘Atomic Bomb’ Unity Deal Met with ‘Bibi, Mofaz, Go Home’ Protests
“Sometimes a big shock is needed to cause people to take to the streets… The people cannot take it anymore.” – Tzipi Livni, former Kadima head (via Times of Israel) ISRAELI POLITICS just exploded with the “atomic bomb” announcement by PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who has canceled upcoming elections to form a unity government with Kadima, [...]
Tzipi Livni Resigns
AFTER LOSING HER LEADERSHIP spot in Kadima, today Tzipi Livni resigned from the Israeli Parliament, vowing to fight on for Israel. From the BBC: [...] “I was by Ariel Sharon’s side on the day it was decided to form Kadima. It was founded in aim to create a government of hope and responsibility.” Ms Livni [...]
Secy. Clinton Overrules Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen on Palestinian Aid
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is reportedly angry over the Obama administration’s move. Aw, poor baby. Anyone still believing in a two-state solution, wanting a semblance of strength from Palestinians that is the only way to accomplish this through a real partner, had to take sides with the Administration’s long view versus the [...]
GOP War on Women Starts Hillary 2016 Talk
It’s the way I end my book. It was the only place the story of Hillary’s 20-year history could go. But it wasn’t actually an ending. Thinking, wondering, and trying to game whether Secy. Clinton, after taking a long deserved break and maybe even starting work on her own international women’s foundation, will turn to [...]
Sheldon Adelson Couldn’t Buy Newt Florida
If you wanted to know the state of Newt Gingrich’s campaign right now all you had to do was watch Fred Thompson on Meet the Press on Sunday. With his hair slicked back and wisps of uncut frizz flipping out in the back, Thompson delivered his lines haltingly and with his head bowed, while focusing [...]
A Word About the ‘Israel Firster’ Debate
From Spencer Ackerman in The Tablet: Some on the left have recently taken to using the term “Israel Firster” and similar rhetoric to suggest that some conservative American Jewish reporters, pundits, and policymakers are more concerned with the interests of the Jewish state than those of the United States. Last week, for example, Salon’s Glenn [...]
Jacksonville is Mittville
A Palestinian Republican? Check. A question about the candidate’s wives, none of whom actually work, which is a much different circumstance than 99% of the families in this country. The words “manufacturing” and “blue collar” weren’t uttered until Rick Santorum said them at the end of the debate. Mitt Romney has a new debate coach [...]
Hillary Clinton has Attended Last SOTU as Obama’s SoS
“I think after 20 years — and it will be 20 years — of being on the high wire of American politics and all of the challenges that come with that, it would be probably a good idea to just find out how tired I am.” – Secy. Hillary Clinton I tweeted about this likelihood [...]
Who is More Pro Israel?, Progressive Edition
“This is where James Baker and George H.W. Bush were, this is where Brent Scowcroft is, this is where Tom Pickering and Colin Powell are – this is not crazy stuff, we’re talking about mainstream, bipartisan positions,” said Jeremy Ben Ami, the executive director of J Street, which has sought in recent years to build [...]
Romney’s $10,000 Bet Trends Worldwide, While Gingrich Flunks History
While Twitter and the press were giddy over Romney’s $10,000 bet-pocalypse line, the serious gaffes of the night went to “historian” Newt Gingrich, who called himself a Reagan conservative, doubling down on his “invented” Palestinian line, which doesn’t come close to Reagan’s views at all. Throughout this period of difficult and time-consuming negotiations, we never [...]
The Things Newt Says
A classic Newt bomb: “I believe that the Jewish people have the right to have a state,” Gingrich said in the interview. “Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, who are historically [...]
Hillary’s Close-Up
“We came. We saw. He died.” – Secy. Hillary Clinton, TIME magazine The issue above is slated to hit newsstands on November 7, the day before my book, The Hillary Effect – Politics, Sexism and the Destiny of Loss comes out. I urge you to read this article, which is behind a subscriber wall. It [...]
Hamas Frees Gilad Shalit as Prisoner Swap Begins
From the New York Times: Buses containing the Palestinian prisoners — the first group of what will eventually be more than 1,000 — made their way into Egypt and from there to the West Bank and Gaza Strip where jubilant relatives awaited and celebrations were planned. The soldier, Sergeant First Class Gilad Shalit, was taken [...]
Bill Clinton: It’s Netanyahu’s Fault
Josh Rogin’s piece is a perfect button on the drama unfolding this week at UNGA. But the Netanyahu government has moved away from the consensus for peace, making a final status agreement more difficult, Clinton said. “That’s what happened. Every American needs to know this. That’s how we got to where we are,” Clinton said. [...]
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