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An Obama Plan for Mideast Peace?

By | 04.07.10 | 9:41 am

An anonymous administration official runs an idea up David Ignatius’ flagpole: Frustrated with the poor-to-intransigent pace of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which are barely at the “indirect” phase, President Obama is considering proposing his own Mideast-peace plan. That’s something the two-state-solution community urged him and Secretary of State Hillary More…

Netanyahu to AIPAC: ‘Jerusalem Is Not a Settlement’

By | 03.22.10 | 10:55 pm

If Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s message to the AIPAC conference was one of reconciliation with Israel while nudging it toward the peace process, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s was one of praise for the U.S.-Israel relationship while embracing the peace process in only the vaguest terms.

After More…

Big Drop-Off in Democratic Support for Israel Over the Past Year

By | 03.22.10 | 6:17 pm

More on the Arab-American Institute’s forthcoming poll about U.S. attitudes toward Israel. I still haven’t seen the full poll, but I’ve gotten one detail of it. According to its findings, not only has the partisan gap between Democratic and Republican views on Israel widened, but the Democratic drop-off in More…

New Poll Shows Mideast Is Increasingly a Partisan Issue

By | 03.22.10 | 3:48 pm

You wouldn’t know from the U-N-I-T-Y themes of this year’s AIPAC conference, but a big partisan gap is opening on how Americans view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That’s according to a soon-to-be-released poll by the Arab-American Institute.

In a capsule summary ahead of the full release of the poll on Thursday, More…

Israeli Opposition Leader Tells AIPAC of ‘Fight … for a Jewish Democratic State’

By | 03.22.10 | 2:45 pm

“I didn’t come here to speak with you as the head of the opposition in Israel,” said Tzipi Livni, leader of Kadima, to the AIPAC annual conference. “It’s not the time and the place” to draw distinctions between herself and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she added to applause. And More…

Foxman Continues to Go After Gen. Petraeus

By | 03.22.10 | 1:23 pm

In case you thought Friday’s bizarre statement rebuking Gen. David Petraeus was a fluke, Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League continued his attack on the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia in a Sunday blog post.

Recall that all Petraeus said was that the More…

J Street Reacts to Clinton, AIPAC

By | 03.22.10 | 10:49 am

After Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s address to AIPAC, I caught up with two representatives of J Street, the younger and more progressive pro-Israel/pro-peace lobby, to find out what they made of both the speech and its reception.

“The speech was very good overall,” said Hadar Susskind, J Street’s More…

Clinton Challenges Israel to Do What Seems ‘Too Hard’ for Peace

By | 03.22.10 | 10:11 am

In closing her remarks to America’s largest pro-Israel lobby, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton referenced the arduous struggles of Israel’s founding generations to establish the Jewish state’s existence. Those generations “understood that the strongest among us is often the one who turned an enemy into a friend.” And she More…

Clinton, Ever the Diplomat, Challenges Israel to Reject Failed ‘Status Quo’

By | 03.22.10 | 10:03 am

Here’s Hillary Rodham Clinton at her diplomatic best. After getting tepid applause at AIPAC for her call for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict to ensure Israel’s future as a “democratic state” and her remark that the the “status quo” had failed, she called on all sides to “refrain More…

Clinton Says U.S. Response to Jerusalem Slight Got Peace Process Back on Track

By | 03.19.10 | 11:42 am

It’s not a substitute for clarity on whatever it is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised her about his commitment to peace, but Laura Rozen reports that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview today that the Jerusalem settlement expansion dust-up worked out fairly well More…