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Jewish Fundraisers Stick With Obama – Forward
December 19, 2011Forward Jewish Fundraisers Stick With ObamaForwardStrong Support: Despite plenty of anecdotal evidence about tepid support among Jews, President Obama has maintained the backing of most key fundraisers from his 2008 election run. By Josh Nathan-Kazis Top-level Jewish fundraisers from President Obama's …Obama pitch to Reform Jews: Everything but matzo balls and chicken soupChicago Sun-Times (blog)Obama [...]
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Tzipi Livni Praises Obama for Pressuring Netanyahu, Suggests U.S. Should Keep Up the Heat
August 5, 2011An interview with the leader of Israel’s largest opposition party Jeffrey Goldberg : The Atlantic
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WHY DID OBAMA DECIDE TO HELP ASSAD?
May 21, 2011Last week a desperate Bashir Al Assad tried to divert world attention away from the specter of another Arab tyrant killing his own people and back to the good old perennial of the “travails” of the Palestinians whom Syria has been keeping in refugee camps for over 60 years. For a few days, he seemed [...]
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Team Obama answers the wrong questions
April 27, 2011National Security Adviser Tom Donilon published an opinion piece on the administration’s efforts toward global nuclear disarmament — a presidential priority. OK, nuclear non-proliferation is important, and I imagine some of the Financial Times’ (mainly European) readers liked Donilon’s piece, “Iran will not hinder plans for a nuclear-free world.” But wouldn’t the time of one [...]
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An Obama Endorsement from George H.W. Bush
March 30, 2011“I look at today’s crisis as ‘good’ vs. ‘evil’—yes, it is that clear.” Jeffrey Goldberg : The Atlantic
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Middle Eastern Despots Tell Obama, Go Slow on Egypt
February 9, 2011The NY Times notes that some of the most despotic of the U.S.’ Middle Eastern allies have engaged in a full court press on the Obama administration to persuade it that siding with the Egyptian Revolution would be a bad move for the U.S. and for them. Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan and the Gulf States [...]
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Cut Off U.S. Aid to EgyptNow!
February 3, 2011The Obama administration seemed determined Wednesday to put as much daylight as possible between Mr. Obama and Mr. Mubarak, once considered an unshakable American supporter in a tumultuous region, with Mr. Gibbs once again raising the specter of a cutoff of American aid to the Mubarak government if the Egyptian president failed to bend. –N.Y. [...]
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Best Press Release of the Week
December 1, 2010This came across the transom yesterday from Nathan Diament of the Orthodox Union: ORTHODOX UNION WELCOMES OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONDEMNATION OF PALESTINIAN DENIAL OF WESTERN WALL’s JEWISH CONNECTION Goldblog has learned that there have been new developments in this matter: Apparently, the Arab League is excoriating the Orthodox Union’s welcoming of the Obama Administration’s condemnation of [...]
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Will Cash4Clunkers Become Fighters4Freezes
November 14, 2010Remember the American federal program named Cash for Clunkers, where citizens would receive payments for buying domestic or imported auto with better gas mileage ratings if they traded in their lower mileage cars? It looks like the Obama administration is using a new carrot approach with the State of Israel, by reportedly offering twenty additional [...]
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Israeli Professor Nails It: Obama was Right when he said America is Not a Christian Country
November 7, 2010Wake me up when Obama is bombing Israel. That’
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The midterms: an Israeli perspective (UPDATED)
November 3, 2010Obama lost, Israel won, declares a headline on Ynet, Israel’s most popular news site The original post was updated. President Barack Obama is not popular in Israel, to say the least. Israelis knew John McCain as their supporters; Obama was a mystery. Early in 2009, the new president’s attempts to approach the Arab world [...]
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Broder: Iran Confrontation May Be Key to Obamas Success
November 2, 2010David Broder, the “dean” of the Washington press corps (I’m just repeating the cliche, not endorsing it), in a column about President Obama’s 2012 reelection chances, says that a resurgent economy would obviously help lift the President’s approval numbers, and what would really help the economy surge may be an armed confrontation with Iran:Look back [...]
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Your Politics Might Be Genetic
October 31, 2010A curious piece in Haaretz: Apparently, some scientists have researched the link between genetics and liberal politics. If you have this gene, and also were a particularly social person in childhood and adolescence, you might have voted for Obama or performed some similar behavior. It would be interesting to see the results if this study [...]
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What Did Michael Oren Really Say About Barack Obama?
October 13, 2010From time to time I read the writings of The Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick in order to gain insight into the way Klingons understand the Middle East. For those of you unfamiliar with her work, Glick is someone who thinks that Menachem Begin was soft on the Arabs. In any case, Glick is entertaining, except [...]
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Playing The Base Cards
October 5, 2010President Obama and the Democrats now realize that their only hope for November’s elections is to motivate core Democrat constituencies: minorities, women, and the unions. They’ve got to get them, if not excited, then at least off their couches and into the voting booths. So, Obama has taken to whipping out every “identity politics” card [...]