politico.com - 11/2/2009
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Marrakesh, Morocco_ After facing a barrage of press coverage that the U.S. has effectively sided with Israel in downplaying the issue of Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank in an effort to get Israel-Palestinian peace talks relaunched, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today ...
haaretz.com - 11/2/2009
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haaretz.com —
Barack Obama has been busy - offering the
Jewish People blessings for Rosh Hashanah, and recording a...
flattering video for the President's Conference in Jerusalem and another for Yitzhak Rabin's memorial rally. Only Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah surpasses ...
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America, stop sucking up to Israel
politico.com - 11/2/2009
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politico.com —
Hillary Clinton's voice has not been heard all
that often in the Mideast peace process, but she...
has provoked crises with almost every word. Administration officials hold Clinton largely responsible for entrenching an unsuccessful focus on ...
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Clinton's Mideast pretzel
powerlineblog.com - 11/1/2009
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powerlineblog.com —
Hillary Clinton continued her farcical visit to Pakistan
today by blaming Obama's failure to make any progress...
with respect to Israeli-Palestinian relations on George W. Bush. Clinton told a group of Pakistani journalists I think that, look, we ...
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No class, bad memory
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Is Hillary More Gaffe-Prone Than Biden?
The New Republic blogs —
... . Then, this past weekend in Israel she seemed to indicate that the Obama administration was no longer demanding an immediate settlement freeze from the Israeli government before, a day later, walking back that statement during a luncheon in Morocco. Ben Smith ...
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
JustOneMinute —
... on the question of Israeli settlements. Then, having decided that she had not sufficiently muddied the waters, she walked back her walk-about . ...
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