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Wednesday May 09, 2012
Photo: Ariel Van Straten
Harvard-educated Kadima MK Yohanan Plesner is one of Kadima Chairman Shaul Mofaz’s right-hand men in the party and a vocal member of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. So when he speaks about Iran, and particularly the way that US candidates’ positions on Iran look through an Israeli lens, he’s in a decent position to comment. He says Obama is in a ideological bind...
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Friday May 04, 2012
Diplomats are supposed to be optimists, or at least euphemists. (Recall the old joke: If a lady says “no” she means “maybe,” if she says “maybe” she means “yes,” and if she says “yes” she’s no lady. Whereas, if a diplomat says “yes” he means “maybe,” if he says “maybe” he means “no,” and if he says “no” he’s no...
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Wednesday May 02, 2012
Sure there were no overflowing platters of couscous and vegetables or steaming bowls of koshari like the Moroccans and Egyptians feature at their respective national day celebrations. There weren’t piles of kabobs or pilafs or lentils. But the Israeli Embassy did take the food up a notch from previous years for the party it held Tuesday night in honor of the country’s 64th birthday.
Maybe they were worried that, in a twist on...
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Friday Apr 27, 2012
Generally when a campaign wants to attack its opponent, it highlights differences between the two camps. Thus when Vice Presiden Biden delivered a lengthy address in New York Thursday to undercut Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on foreign policy, he contrasted the perceived approach of the former Massachusetts governor with that of the president of the United States.
Biden accused Romney of having a "Cold War...
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Tuesday Apr 24, 2012
Speaking at the US Holocaust Museum Monday, President Obama said "Never Again" challenges societies and nations.
“It’s a bitter truth – too often, the world has failed to prevent the killing of innocents on a massive scale. And we are haunted by the atrocities that we did not stop and the lives we did not save,” he said.
But Obama didn’t need to reach to the historical catchphrases of...
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About This Blog
Observations about Washington politicians and policy-makers in their natural habitat provided by two sharp-eyed politics-watchers. Hilary...
Observations about Washington politicians and policy-makers in their natural habitat provided by two sharp-eyed politics-watchers. Hilary Leila Krieger has covered DC for The Jerusalem Post since 2007. Rebecca Anna Stoil covered the Knesset before crossing the Atlantic last year.
