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J Street Statement on Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

By | 10.09.09 | 9:21 am

The American Jewish pro-peace pro-Israel pro-Palestinian organization urges the Nobel Laureate president to use his enhanced prestige to push forward with an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict:

J Street congratulates President Obama on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The President’s bold international leadership has had a profound impact on

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Mike Huckabee, Ready to Pander to the Israel Lobby

By | 08.17.09 | 10:44 am

Former GOP Arkansas governor, Fox News host and presumed presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is in Israel and he tweets:

I’ll be in Israel this week and touring the highly disputed settlements that Obama and Hillary are trying to stop.

“Highly disputed” is one way of putting it. “Illegal” is More…

Obama Calls Mideast Leaders

By | 01.21.09 | 12:36 pm

Speaking of returning the United States to an active role in Arab-Israeli peace processing, here’s a statement just issued by new White House press secretary Robert Gibbs:

Recasting the War on Terrorism

By | 11.20.08 | 6:10 am

Buoyed by high expectations for the first year of Barack Obama’s administration, an informal coalition of progressive national-security and civil-liberties experts are urging the president-elect to redefine the war on terrorism.

Eight years of the Bush administration’s approach to counterterrorism have yielded two open-ended and bloody wars; a massively expanded More…

So Much for That Legacy

By | 11.06.08 | 5:50 pm

As new Palestinian institutions and new leaders emerge, demonstrating real performance on security and reform, I expect Israel to respond and work toward a final-status agreement. With intensive effort by all, this agreement could be reached within three years from now. And I and my country will actively lead toward

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Palling Around With Alleged War Criminals

By | 10.29.08 | 4:37 pm

Let me add to DeLong’s post. First, the idea that there is anything at all unseemly about “associating” with Rashid Khalidi is — why mince words — racist.

As Matt Duss points out, Khalidi is a respected professor of Middle Eastern studies. His history of the Palestinian people More…