latimes.com - 12/1/2008
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Reporting from Cairo, Washington and Jerusalem -- Nearly a month after Barack Obama's election, his reported decision to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton for secretary of State is causing Arabs and Israelis to readjust expectations of his administration's policies toward the Middle East. During ...
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The Early Word: Foreign Policy Rollout
The Caucus —
... who view her “as one of the world’s leading figures in the fight to improve education, safety, and economic opportunity for women and girls.” And the Los Angeles Times captures Arab and Israeli reaction to a Clinton State Department: Cautiously, Israelis are now applauding Clinton’s all-but-certain nomination as a sign that Obama can be trusted to act firmly against Iran’s nuclear ambitions and to refrain from pressing Israel to accept a weak, violence-prone Palestinian state on its borders. Arabs and especially Palestinians, on the other hand, say the news has damped ...
It’s Clinton-Bush!
Jules Crittenden —
... Middle East waits for Obama and posits the Clinton team is up to it. Fails to note that American presidents generally don’t waste a lot of effort on that until under the legacy gun. Given the left’s insistence in recent years that placating the Pals and eliminating Arab hatred of Israel as a reason why they hate us is key to broader Mideast peace, it will be interesting to see if the Clinton-Bush admin makes that a centerpiece of its war strategy. My guess: No. Just ask the Arabs. LA Times : Arabs readjust their irrational Obamist exuberance to a cold Clinton reality. Expect ...
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