Romney accepts Paul endorsement, dances around Jewish sensitivities
On Friday I wrote a story that President Obama had slightly widened the gap with Mitt Romney when it comes to the Jewish vote.read more
View ArticleHillary Clinton tries on her best Persian accent
Who knew Hillary Clinton did Middle Eastern accents?read more
View ArticleObama + Peres = BFFs
Bob Dylan and John Glenn, Toni Morrison and John Paul Stevens might have earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom they were awarded last month, but they did not receive it in a private ceremony...
View ArticleObama takes longer to console Abdullah than Netanyahu
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayif bin Abdul-Aziz al Saud died on Saturday and President Obama finally got around to calling King Abdullah to express his condolences on Wednesday. That would be...
View ArticleObama and Mofaz, meeting of the minds?
President Obama made yet another swoop-in on a visiting Jewish delegation this week, this time stopping for more than half an hour to chat with new Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz and his entourage....
View ArticleObama's Foul
You don’t usually see a president get booed at a fundraiser in his honor, but that’s what happens when you try to make jokes about sensitive trades involving the Boston Red Sox while in Beantown....
View ArticleMcCain, From Istanbul to Jerusalem with love
As you might have heard, there have been some tensions recently in the Turkish-Israeli relationship.read more
View ArticleClinton, like Romney, to visit Israel ... Coincidence?
The White House didn’t even try to be coy when I asked earlier this week whether President Obama would be hopping on a plane to Israel any time soon like his competitor Mitt Romney will be.read more
View ArticleIsraelis and Palestinians take a backseat, for a change
An interesting thing happened on the way to wrapping up Secretary Clinton’s press conference on Friday. Clinton concluded her opening comments during a press availability in France by noting that she...
View ArticleThe Egyptian embassy runs dry
The aftershock from the earthquake that has shaken the Arab world reached Washington Tuesday night, much to the chagrin of guests who gathered at the Egyptian embassy for the annual National Day...
View ArticleWhere Romney Won't Visit
Mitt Romney and Binyamin Netanyahu may be legendarily - even unprecedentedly, according to the New York Times - good friends. But it seems like just as GOP leaders have found their Congressional...
View ArticleHappy Monday: Pink=Political Power?
It's summer, it's slow, and let's face it - we're all sick of red, white and blue campaign websites. And thus, if you haven't seen it, here is the not-at-all standard campaign website for Mindy Mayer...
View ArticleMitt Romney, Cultural Warrior
When Mitt Romney made an impolitic remark as he began his overseas effort at statesmanship last week, he explained it as the consequence of straight talk.read more
View ArticleMitt Romney, Cultural Warrior
When Mitt Romney made an impolitic remark as he began his overseas effort at statesmanship last week, he explained it as the consequence of straight talk.read more
View ArticleRomney Loves Israel, He Loves It Not
Mitt Romney took some heat for his efforts to praise Israel’s financial prowess during his visit to Jerusalem last month, angering Palestinians by suggesting that their economy was doing worse than...
View ArticleDueling Jews and the R2 Ticket
After Shabbat ended last night, my inbox was fraught with turmoil. Dueling Jewish e-mails began to show up – bashing or boosting GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s selection of Representative Paul Ryan as his...
View ArticleHow far will the Obama campaign go on Israel?
How far will the Democrats go to prove that President Barack Obama has a brag-worthy Israel record? Well, if it is the National Jewish Democratic Committee, the answer is now available: twenty minutes...
View ArticleRon Paul, silent but not forgotten
Most groups demonstrating at the Republican National Convention in Tampa this week were kept well outside the Tampa Bay Times Forum. But after passing through the security cordon, I stumbled on many...
View ArticleGOP casts Obama in Carter's shadow
Republicans have taken to linking Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama any chance they get. At the Republican convention last week, I listened to a national security panel with top Romney advisors where...
View ArticleJews and Latinos, coffee and muffins in Charlotte
Most of the focus at political conventions goes to what’s happening on the convention floor, from policy speeches to votes (and re-votes) on party platforms. But there’s also a lot that goes on...
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