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Gird Your Loins
Taylor Marsh —
... Getting the last licks in before Bush leaves office? Check. Challenging Obama’s foreign policy to take a stand straight out on Middle East policy? Check. Joe Biden’s words ring out as loudly today as when he said them.
But how many times are the Israelis going to try the same tactics expecting different
results than have come to pass before? Fly meet screen.
The same goes for American leaders, specifically
Barack Obama, who will be challenged immediately upon entering the presidency
to put in place a message on the Middle East, ...
The Test
Matthew Yglesias —
... Steve Clemons has a smart post on the Hamas-Israel mutual bombardment as the “test by crisis” moment Joe Biden was talking about before the election: ...
Trashing of Civilizations: Identity and War in Gaza
Firedoglake —
... , however virtually the rest of the international community has called for a halt to the attacks, which have claimed more than 230 lives, of which Hamas reports 160 are security personnel. 700 are reported wounded. For comparison 31 Israelis are listed as killed by terrorism this year through October, 12 of them soldiers or security personnel. Steve Clemons perceptively notes that this is part of Bush's reverse hundred days to restrict Obama to Bush's policies. ...
War and Piece — ... and political forces have been lacerating the Mubarak regime for months over its enforcement of the blockade of Gaza. Today, the Muslim Brotherhood upped the ante by calling for a highly unusual public protest today to be led by Supreme Guide Mohammed Mehdi Akef -- announced in a blaring red banner atop its official website. Most likely, this will just be another symbolic protest, but it contributes to a crisis atmosphere and there's no telling how the various forces will react." Steve Clemons : Hijacking Obama's Mideast strategy. University of Maryland Mideast analyst Paul ...
Open Thread
Booman Tribune —
... ) With Allies/friends like the Israelis, who needs real jihadists/enemies? Steve Clemons - The hijacking of Obama's Middle East Strategy Barack Obama cannot afford to allow his presidency and its foreign policy course to be hijacked by either side in this increasingly blurry dispute. Israel's actions today just created thousands of aggrieved and vengeful relatives committed to delivering some blowback against Israel. Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results" by ...
Earnestly Wrought Hands
Jules Crittenden —
... , silent on missiles coming out of Gaza, decries American media opinion silence on missiles going back into Gaza. Mitchell praises the fact that Israel has a robust free press, which examines and criticizes its government’s actions. Unlike Gaza, where critics are thrown off rooftops. Mitchell fails to note any opinion supporting government. This one might be the best. Steve Clemons at the Washington Note on this early test of the Obama administration: One of the most important and sensible comments made during the last stretch of the campaign came from the straight-talking ...
When In Doubt, Blame Bush For Gaza
JammieWearingFool —
... international crises. 6. They suck in general . Such keen insight. Speaking of simpletons, E publisher Greg Mitchell, living in an absolute fantasy world, actually believes the American media is slanted in favor on Israel . Good grief, do these people have any clue? Apparently not . Now I wonder why there isn't any outrage on the "Arab street" over the fact Egypt is opening fire on Palestinians ? Is that also Bush's fault? Others, meanwhile, lament that poor Barack Obama is a victim. Labels: Gaza , Hamas , Israel , Kos ...
Earnestly Wrung Hands
Jules Crittenden —
... , silent on missiles coming out of Gaza, decries American media opinion silence on missiles going back into Gaza. Mitchell praises the fact that Israel has a robust free press, which examines and criticizes its government’s actions. Unlike Gaza, where critics are thrown off rooftops. Mitchell fails to note any opinion supporting government. This one might be the best. Steve Clemons at the Washington Note on this early test of the Obama administration: One of the most important and sensible comments made during the last stretch of the campaign came from the straight-talking ...
Steve Clemons: Obama Needs to be Nuanced in North Korea Response
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... North Korea seems to be demanding that it not fall too far down the Obama priority list -- and it has engineered one of the first of many probable global crises designed to test the resolve and strategic course of the Obama administration. Joe Biden warned during the campaign that this would happen, and he was absolutely right. ...
