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Had They Known
commentarymagazine.com - 2/27/2009
Had They Known
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Had the public (and specifically Jewish voters, who voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama) known that Obama would appoint the Saudi-funded, Israel-bashing, analytically-disabled Chas Freeman to a key national security position, I wonder if he would have cleared the bar of acceptability for ...
forbes.com - 3/1/2009
The Obama Administration Double-Deals On Israel
— forbes.com — Barack Obama just added double-dealing to his foreign policy repertoire. On Friday, administration officials led many Jewish... leaders to believe that the president had decided to boycott the United Nation's "anti-racism" conference known as Durban II. ... (more) The Obama Administration Double-Deals On Israel

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jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 2/26/2009
On the Analytical Abilities of Chas Freeman
— jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com — When the great David Rothkopf comes to Chas Freeman's defense, I pay attention. Writing on his Foreign... Policy blog , Rothkopf argues that Freeman , whose organization, the Middle East Policy Council, has taken Saudi money , and who has sometimes been ... (more) On the Analytical Abilities of Chas Freeman

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yourish.com - 2/27/2009
Puncturing Peretz’s ballong x 3
— yourish.com — First it was about Durban II : The main reason I do this is that I gave... the benefit of the doubt to the administration’s motives in sending a delegation to the preparatory sessions in Geneva where some interventions proved just how weak we ... (more) Puncturing Peretz’s ballong x 3

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Sister Toldjah:  Jennifer Rubin

Swampland:  Balance

Yourish.com:  Time’s slimy, whiny, Klein

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Jennifer Rubin
Sister Toldjah — Chas Freeman is now officially the head of the NIC

Balance
Swampland — ... Now, many of these neocons have been gunning for Obama from the start...and have been just twitching in anticipation of the chance to paint him anti-Israel or worse. Their tendency to slime their detractors with overwrought epithets--anti-semite is the old standby--has diminished whatever power that term once held. In this case, once again, they are standing athwart America's best interests--and Israel's: it's about time that the U.S. starting calling Israel on its excesses. Clinton is right, for example: Israel's strangle-hold on the Gaza crossings gave Hamas a rationale for ...

Time’s slimy, whiny, Klein
Yourish.com — ... Now, many of these neocons have been gunning for Obama from the start…and have been just twitching in anticipation of the chance to paint him anti-Israel or worse. Their tendency to slime their detractors with overwrought epithets–anti-semite is the old standby–has diminished whatever power that term once held. In this case, once again, they are standing athwart America’s best interests–and Israel’s: it’s about time that the U.S. starting calling Israel on its excesses. Clinton is right, for example: Israel’s strangle-hold on the ...

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