Yesterday a bunch of Mideast peace experts in Washington expressed confusion over what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas really wants out of this morning’s scheduled meeting at the White House with President Obama. “Partly everyone is hoping the other side is going to come in and provide the solution,” More…
So tomorrow Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, will visit the White House, under the shadow of last week’s Israeli raid of a flotilla intended to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. What’s on the agenda? See if you can tell from this AFP story:
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Four days later, the Senate Majority Leader responds to Israel’s deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish-flagged ship shuttling aid to Gaza.
“Israel is one of our strongest and most important allies,” Reid said in a short statement, “and the United States stands firmly with Israel at this critical More…
The congressional reaction this week to Israel’s recent and deadly raid on an aid flotilla headed to Gaza has, for the most part, fit neatly into three camps: Most lawmakers have either (1) said nothing, (2) called cautiously for an investigation, or (3) staunchly More…
The Connecticut Independent finally responded today to Israel’s attack Monday on an international aid flotilla making its way to Gaza.
Nothing shocking here.
“Israel exercised her legitimate right of self defense,” Lieberman said in a statement.
Most of the lawmakers already weighing in on Israel’s deadly raid against an international aid flotilla headed for Gaza have come out squarely in support of Israel’s decision. Not Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
The Ohio Democrat began circulating a letter to colleagues on Wednesday condemning the attack in no uncertain More…
While Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton mentioned the “longstanding American policy that does not accept continued settlements” and the obligation to tell Israel “hard truths,” her speech to the largest pro-Israel lobby group is clearly a speech about unbreakable ties between the U.S. and Israel.
I said in an earlier post on the Obama administration and the Goldstone commission that Hamas might “benefit if next year’s scheduled elections go forward.” That was poorly phrased. What I meant was that Hamas stands to benefit from the weakening of more moderate factions. Because, as George Washington More…
The House will shortly begin debating a resolution to denounce a U.N. report into Israeli and Hamas war crimes in last year’s Gaza war co-sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman’s (D-Calif), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The author of that report, South African Judge Richard Goldstone, wrote More…
Last week, Richard Goldstone, who investigated Israeli and Hamas war crimes in Gaza for the United Nations, wrote to Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) to say that a resolution co-sponsored by Berman, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, denouncing Goldstone’s report was significantly factually inaccurate. A spokeswoman for Berman, More…
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