yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/21/2009
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I think Anti-Defamation League honcho Abe Foxman better think harder about this :
Some Jewish leaders say the very qualities that may appeal to the Obama administration — Mitchell’s reputation as an honest broker — could spark unhappiness, if not outright opposition, from some pro-Israel ...
thejewishweek.com - 1/21/2009
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thejewishweek.com —
BGU-Negev Mitchell As Envoy Could Split Center by
James D. Besser Washington Correspondent The expected appointment of...
a special envoy to breathe new life into Israeli-Palestinian negotiations could split the pro-Israel center while pleasing the ...
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Mitchell As Envoy Could Split Center
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/23/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Yesterday, Abe Foxman took the weird step of
complaining that George Mitchell is “fair” and therefore somehow...
unsuited to serve as an envoy overseeing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Today, Foxman whined to Ben Smith that Mitchell is ...
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Foxman Steps Up His Campaign Against Fairness
thinkprogress.org - 1/21/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
The media is reporting that former Sen. George
Mitchell, who handled the Northern Ireland peace process ,...
is being eyed by the Obama administration to be a top diplomatic envoy to the Middle East. In 2001, Mitchell produced a report on the Middle ...
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Foxman: George Mitchell is too ‘fair’ and ‘even-handed’ ...
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Foxman: George Mitchell is too ‘fair’ and ‘even-handed’ to serve as Middle East envoy.
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... is being eyed by the Obama administration to be a top diplomatic envoy to the Middle East. In 2001, Mitchell produced a report on the Middle East which recommended that Israel freeze all its settlement activities. Without a freeze, a cessation of violence would be “particularly hard to sustain,” he argued. While Mitchell’s impending appointment is earning a great deal of praise, the Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman complains the diplomat is too fair and balanced for the post:
“Sen. Mitchell is fair. He’s been ...
The problem with fairness?
Political Animal —
... situation requires that kind of approach in the Middle East." Mitchell has demonstrated repeatedly an ability to be an accomplished and fair negotiator. Most notably, he helped negotiate the peace in Northern Ireland, because he came to the table as an even-handed mediator, with credibility as someone who can act in good faith. To hear Foxman tell it, that's a bad quality to have in a U.S. envoy to the Middle East. It's one thing to think this; it's another to admit it out loud. As Matt Yglesias noted , "[N]obody comes out against fairness ."— ...
Fleischer criticizes Obama’s Cairo speech as being too ‘balanced.’
Think Progress —
... The Obama administration has faced criticism for being too balanced in the past. In January, Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League called George Mitchell, Obama’s top diplomatic envoy to the Middle East, too “fair” and “even-handed.” As Matt Yglesias responded, “[N]obody comes out against fairness. It’d be one thing to complain [about being] biased against Israel in a problematic way, but…complaining that he’s too fair and even-handed” is “absurd.” ...
ADL’s Foxman: Obama ‘putting too much weight on solving’ the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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... Foxman has previously criticized Obama’s Middle East envoy George Mitchell for being too “meticulously even-handed” and “fair” in his approach to the conflict. ...
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