Submit a Story!
WaPo: “Smart power” actually “amateur hour”
WaPo: “Smart power” actually “amateur hour”
Read this post »
Netanyahu told Obama: Peace talks must yield deal
haaretz.com — Most of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's White House meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama this week took... place in private, and it centered mainly on the Palestinian issue. This is what Netanyahu told the people he briefed after the meeting. ... (more) Netanyahu told Obama: Peace talks must yield deal
Comments
Blog Reactions

The Democrat Coup D’etat, Health Care, Cap And Trade, Climate Bill, Marches On Regardless Of Support
Moonbat Patrol — ... Cost of Democratic Plans: Over 1.8 Trillion   Ace of Spades HQ The Great Mystery  Steve McCann American Thinker Nine Shot Dead 30 Wounded At Mass Shooting At Fort Hood  Atlas Shrugs Conservative Blog Network Larwyn’s Linx: America’s Relativist-in-Chief Breaking: Fort Hood Shooting (Open Thread)  Flopping Aces GOP health-care reform cost: 61 billion   Ed Morrissey HOT AIR WaPo: “Smart Power” actually “amateur hour”  ED Morrissey HOT ...

FROM “SMART DIPLOMACY” TO AMATEUR HOUR….
Instapundit — FROM “SMART DIPLOMACY” TO AMATEUR HOUR.

Larwyn's Linx: Answering the Call at the Capitol
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... More insider trading: UUP options go nuts : Denninger Media Time to stop this fight : Power Line Exploiting infant deaths to sell ObamaCare : AT (Tate) E.J. Dionne Embarrasses Himself Again (Chap. 408) : Power Line Climate & Energy Britain faces a a new "dark age" thanks to the church of environmentalism : AT Man made climate change belief now legally a religion : Jawa Panel OKs climate-change bill without GOP : Times World WaPo: 'Smart Power' actually 'Amateur Hour' : Hot Air Russia stages a mock invasion of ...

The Obama amateur hour
Sense of EventsHot Air cites a Washington Post piece on the administration's multiple fumbles in the Israel-Palestinian peace process. Saith the Post, Daniel Levy, a veteran Israeli peace negotiator now at the Century Foundation in Washington, summed up the administration’s efforts in recent days as “amateur night at the Apollo Theater.” He said the administration did not game out the consequences of its demands on the parties — and then flinched. “They just dug deeper and deeper their own grave,” he said. “All of this talk of negotiations doesn’t cut the mustard in the ...

Related Content
Bibi Netanyahu Gets the Cold Shoulder in Washington
pajamasmedia.com 23 days ago — Israel's prime minister did his best to save face and insist everything was fine. It wasn't.
Abbas: Netanyahu hasn't changed since last stint as PM
haaretz.com 10/30/2009 — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is deeply suspicious of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is losing faith in his intentions to reach a peace agreement, Israeli officials have told Haaretz. "I know Netanyahu is pragmatic and everyone tells me ...
Middle East Clarity
swampland.blogs.time.com 26 days ago — Over at the Commentary blog, Max Boot has made the Neocon-Likud position on peace talks fairly plain: the effort on the part of the Obama Administration to convince the Israelis to freeze all settlements has been "nonsense." And while I agree that the ...
Obama Gets Peace Process Back to 2007 (Not Even)
weeklystandard.com 9/21/2009 — In 2007, the Bush administration held a conference in Annapolis that brought together the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. This was the first time all sides were able to agree on a two ...
Dazed and Confused -- By: Elliott Abrams
article.nationalreview.com 25 days ago — W hen I visited Israel in late October, not long before the latest visits of U.S. envoy George Mitchell and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Israelis of all political hues confessed that they were amazed, perplexed, and confused by the policy ...
Palestinians accuse U.S. of killing peace prospects
reuters.com 11/1/2009 — Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pointing an accusing finger at the United States, the Palestinians on Sunday said Washington's backing for Israeli refusal to halt Jewish settlement expansion had killed any hope of reviving peace negotiations ...
Smart Power!
directorblue.blogspot.com 7/29/2009 — Where do I sign up for this beauty?
Can Clinton, Obama Restart Middle East Peace Talks?
time.com 11/3/2009 — The Obama Administration's bid to relaunch an Israeli-Palestinian peace process is falling apart faster than you can say settlement freeze— in no small part because President Obama began his effort by saying settlement freeze . On Monday, Secretary ...
Top U.S. officials: Mideast peace talks have hit impasse
haaretz.com 11/2/2009 — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. special envoy George Mitchell again Monday afternoon in an attempt to find a way to allow the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table. Senior U.S. officials admit that the talks have ...
More Than Just a Photo
foreignpolicy.com 29 days ago — More Than Just a Photo-Op Barack Obama's handshake meeting with Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu is not getting nearly the credit it deserves. In fact, Obama's Mideast peace strategy is far more sophisticated than most observers realize. BY DANIEL ...
Senators: move US embassy to Jerusalem (AFP)Yahoo! News: Politics News 30 days ago
AFP - Seven US Senators on Thursday unveiled legislation to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a step perennially resisted by US presidents including Barack Obama.
Obama: Fort Hood shooting 'horrific'POLITICO.com: Politics 30 days ago
Speaking at the Interior Department, Obama says he's already conferred with Robert Gates and the Joint Chiefs of Staff about the attack.
Health reform gets boost before close vote (Reuters)Yahoo! News: Politics News 30 days ago
Reuters - With a close vote looming in the U.S. House of Representatives, President Barack Obama's push for healthcare reform was boosted on Thursday by the support of powerful lobbies representing doctors and seniors.
Obama desperately needs new Mideast approach: experts (AFP)Yahoo! News: Politics News 30 days ago
AFP - The Obama administration desperately needs a new approach to the Middle East as it slips further away than ever to securing peace after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's tour, experts said Thursday.
Obama pledges new relations with tribal leadersCNN.com - Politics 30 days ago
President Obama said Thursday that the federal government was guilty of mistreating Native Americans in the past and promised to forge a new relationship between the federal government and tribal leaders.