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lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/7/2009

"We have no grand political scheme"

— lynch.foreignpolicy.com — I spent the morning at a lecture organized by GWU's outstanding Homeland Security Policy Institute's Ambassador's Roundtable Series featuring Israel's Ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor. It was a profoundly dismaying experience. Because ... (more) "We have no grand political scheme"

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walt.foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009

Stephen M. Walt | A FOREIGN POLICY blog

— walt.foreignpolicy.com — Over at Salon.com, Glenn Greenwald has posted some typically sharp and forceful comments on the gap between American public opinion on the conflict in Gaza and the public stance taken by our politicians. Citing a recent Rasmussen poll , he shows that ... (more) Stephen M. Walt | A FOREIGN POLICY blog

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online.wsj.com - 1/6/2009

Opinion: An Endgame for Israel

— online.wsj.com — Maybe this column would get a better reception if it were titled, "No Endgame for Israel." Because the quantity of commentary claiming that Israel cannot possibly achieve any kind of successful outcome in Gaza is already approaching presurge levels of ... (more) Opinion: An Endgame for Israel

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House Dems Align With Bush On Gaza
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that leading House Democrats are currently drafting a non-binding congressional resolution to support Israel's Gaza incursion. The resolution, being drafted by the office of House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA), will offer tacit support for Israel and look into conditions for peace without explicitly demanding a ceasefire. ...

House Dems Align With Bush On Gaza
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that leading House Democrats are currently drafting a non-binding congressional resolution to support Israel's Gaza incursion. The resolution, being drafted by the office of House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA), will offer tacit support for Israel and look into conditions for peace without explicitly demanding a ceasefire. ...

Dems plan pro-Israel resolution
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... Committee. "Certainly it would not demand a cease-fire," Hoyer said. "It would speak to the conditions that would justify a cease-fire. A cease-fire is not a just cease-fire when it's just Israel" holding fire. Israel launched its major operation Dec. 27 in a bid to end rocket attacks on its South. Such attacks, carried out by militants allied with Gaza's Hamas rulers, drastically intensified last month following the end of a six-month cease-fire between Hamas and Israel. Read more: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/06/1002014/dems-pla...

Obama Breaks Silence on Gaza
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Update: Meanwhile, Democratic leaders are working on a pro-Israel congressional resolution, about which they're being more forthcoming than Obama is about his thoughts. ...

Democrats ‘scrambling to push out’ pro-Israel resolution.
Think Progress — Just as Israel is indicating it conditionally welcomes an Egyptian-French cease-fire proposal, Democrats in Congress are “scrambling to push out” a “non-binding resolution supporting Israel’s goal” in the Gaza military operations: U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the U.S. House of Representatives majority leader, told JTA he was looking at such a resolution, which is being drafted in the office of Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “Certainly it would not demand a ...