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• Ben Nelson Is Lobbied By Someone Who Has Been There

  
  Swampland — Authority: 724
  If the changes in the health care bill are indeed enough to bring Joe Lieberman aboard, it looks as though we are back to the point where all eyes are on Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson as potentially the 60th vote to bring the bill over the finish line in the Senate. As you might [...]
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• Karmic Payback or Hillary’s Revenge? You Decide…

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 532
  * A Great Post, Bumped Up * Colleen O’Connor, San Diego News Network, penned a fun article: King Obama v. Queen Clinton — Check or Checkmate? Her thesis is that the patient “Queen” is slowly but surely vanquishing the foes who betrayed her for Obama last year. I have another theory. Political operatives ...
  3 days ago

• Karmic Payback or Hillary’s Revenge? You Decide…

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 532
  Colleen O’Connor, San Diego News Network, penned a fun article: King Obama v. Queen Clinton — Check or Checkmate? Her thesis is that the patient “Queen” is slowly but surely vanquishing the foes who betrayed her for Obama last year. I have another theory. Political operatives who backed Obama, turning ...
  5 days ago

• Lowered Expectations for Middle East Peace

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 138
  The Jerusalem Post says Obama is scaling back his diplomacy: With the Palestinians refusing to return to the negotiations, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu not calling for a complete settlement freeze and the Arab world declining to make any gestures to Israel, the current sense in Jerusalem is that the US is ...
  6 days ago

• Here’s How the Press Reported the Death of Health Care Reform in 1994.

  
  A Rake's Progress — Authority: 118
  This morning I was trying to find some of my old Christmas cards from the Clinton White House when I stumbled upon this news story in my files. Read it. It is amazing to think how much progress we are making this time around. It is sad, as well, to see how similar the Republican attack strategy is today. A ...
  1 week ago

• George Mitchell Has A “Tough Road” Ahead

  
  Pine Tree Politics — Authority: 467
  Politico today ran a piece on Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell – the president’s special envoys – suggesting that both men are facing more difficult challenges in their jobs than originally thought. Mitchell, of course, is the former Senate Majority Leader from Maine, and will forever be known as a ...
  1 week ago

• Klein: Obama officials step up monitoring of Jews. ‘They come out and try to interact with our leadership’

  
  RBO — Authority: 527
  Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, reports from Tel Aviv:The Obama administration in recent weeks has stepped up its monitoring of Jewish construction projects in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, WND has learned. Obama has called for a complete halt to what he refers to as settlement ...
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• Israel

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  The Atlantic: Israel and Palestine ; Wednesday-Night.com Israel news ; NYT archives Israel & Gaza At the risk of being called anti-Semites and other epithets, we are growing very, very tired of and impatient with Israeli intransigence in this matter - how can anyone have hope for any form of peace (which ...
  2 weeks ago

• Special Envoy George Mitchell on the importance of compromise and leadership in the Middle East

  
  Mideast Peace Pulse — Authority: 129
  Earlier today, Middle East Progress published an interview with Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, Senator George Mitchell. Below are excerpts of his remarks on the progress seen by the Obama administration toward peace in the region. The interview in full can be read here . On Netanyahus proclaimed 10 month ...
  2 weeks ago

• Israel halts some West Bank building

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 590
  Settlement-building in the occupied West Bank will be halted for 10 months, but not in East Jerusalem, and the construction of schools, synagogues and community centres will continue as part of its “natural growth” doctrine, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced 26 November. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Palestinians Appeal to U.S. to Put Pressure on Israel

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinians appealed to the United States on Thursday to raise pressure on Israel, saying an Israeli plan to halt new construction in the West Bank was insincere. Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top presidential adviser, said he hopes U.S. envoy George Mitchell can bring about what he called "a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Israel: Netanyahu Buys Time with Settlement “Freeze”

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 599
  On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would impose a 10-month freeze on construction in West Bank settlements: I hope that this decision will help launch meaningful negotiations to reach a historic peace agreement that would finally end the conflict between Israel and the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Israel: the ‘Pause’ That Refreshes…Settlements

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 518
  The N.Y. Times headline tells it all Israel Offers a Pause in Building New Settlements . A pause is not a freeze. A pause ends with a resumption of whatever you were doing before. A freeze is something that stops you dead in your tracks. We all know where this is going and it ain’t a pretty place. Maybe a ...
  3 weeks ago

• What moratorium? Netanyahu playing games

  
  Promised Land — Authority: 123
  The top news item this evening on walla.co.il – Israel’s most popular web site – reads as follows: “Netanyahu in a message to Obama: Abu-Mazen has no more excuses”. I think this sums it all up. The settlements moratorium PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced was never intended to re-ignite the peace process. ...
  3 weeks ago

• No “no” is final, U.S. mideast peace envoy says

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 617
  President Barack Obama’s mideast peace envoy George Mitchell is an unlikely optimist. Ten months into an assignment that has confounded generations of U.S. diplomats, Mitchell said on Wednesday he remained upbeat about bringing Israel and the Palestinians back to peace talks — thanks in part to his ...
  3 weeks ago

• Big Road Blues Show 11/22/09: Goin’ Up To The Country – Field Recordings The 1960’s & 70’s Pt. 1

  
  Big Road Blues — Authority: 109
  ARTIST SONG ALBUM James Yank Rachel & Shirley Griffith Peach Orchard Mama Art of Field Recording Vol. I J. T. Adams Red River Art of Field Recording Vol. I Sam Chatmon I Have To Paint My Face I Have To Paint My Face Robert Curtis Smith Stella Ruth I Have To Paint My ...
  3 weeks ago

• White House ‘Dismayed’ at 900 New West Bank Settler Homes

  
  Peacemakers — Authority: 114
  Gilo is connected by tunnel and segregated roads to another West Bank settlement, Gush Etzion. Today, Middle East Special Envoy George Mitchell and his dedicated team of peacemakers have returned very disheartened from Israel and Palestine, where they have been this week trying to get the peace process restarted. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Proposed Israeli building project raises US concerns

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Jerusalem, Nov 18 (DPA) Plans for construction of 900 new Israeli residences in the West Bank are set to further heighten tensions between the US and Israel on the issue of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, media reports said Tuesday.According to the reports, the city management of Jerusalem has approved the ...
  4 weeks ago

• White House Blasts Israel’s New Settlement Construction

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Contrary to nearly a year of stern insistence from the Obama administration that Israel refrain from all growth in occupied Palestinian territory — an insistence that frayed with a recent comment by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that the administration has tried to walk back — Israel has announced ...
  4 weeks ago

• US demands Israel to halt construction in Gilo

  
  Mideast Peace Pulse — Authority: 129
  Following discovery of Israeli plans to construct a new residential area in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, Special Envoy George Mitchell met with Attorney Isaac Molcho to voice US disaproval of the plans and to demand that Prime Minister Netanyahu prevent construction approval from being given. Shimon ...
  4 weeks ago

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