huffingtonpost.com - 10/22/2009
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The more I listen to Congressional Opposition chief John Boehner as of late, the more I wish he could find the dignity and common ground for big objectives that Israel's Opposition Party Leader, Kadima Party chief Tzipi Livni , has just demonstrated in a knock-the-ball-out-of-the-park ...
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 10/23/2009
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jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com —
Jeremy Ben-Ami of the liberal lobbying group J
Street is the man of the moment: The group's...
upcoming conference in Washington has become a source of great controversy for many reasons . I interviewed Ben-Ami yesterday by telephone, and here is an ...
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Ami On Zionism and Military Aid to Israel
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 10/20/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
It’s certainly news that Human Rights Watch’s critics
were able to get a former HRW chairman to...
slam the organization for having the temerity to hold Israel to the same standards of international humanitarian law to which it holds every ...
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Bernstein on Human Rights Watch
jpost.com - 10/20/2009
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jpost.com —
Ambassador to the US Michael Oren has decided
not to attend next week's J Street conference, the...
Israeli Embassy said on Tuesday. Instead, a lower-level member of the embassy staff will be sent to watch and report on the event. "In response to the ...
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Oren rejects J Street conference invite
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Livni Writes a Letter
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Steve Clemons is very excited that Kadima Party chief Tzipi Livni has sent "a knock-the-ball-out-of-the-park...letter of affirmation to J Street, recognizing potential differences but affiriming a shared strategic vision for the best interests of Israel." No doubt this is a momentous occasion in the quest for peace, but just a little perspective... ...
Remainders: AHIP
Ben Smith's Blog —
Obama likes the executive pay cuts.
Paterson doesn't.
Obama, in the White House photostream, receives a Hindu honor.
W. signs on with Zig Ziglar.
The Senate grills czars.
Holbrooke denies indignantly that he's been silenced.
An AHIP lobbyist tells Republicans not to give comfort to the enemy.
Jim Steinberg gets the last edit.
Livni gives J Street a shout-out.
Charles Grassley used to be in the conversation.
Obama is designed. ...
Livni's letter to J Street
Israel Matzav —
... this week) posted a pdf of the letter to Huffington Post , where he called it "a remarkable letter of affirmation to J Street, recognizing potential differences but affirming a shared strategic vision for the best interests of Israel." Shmuel Rosner says that Clemons ...
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