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Some mid-east observers are saying that there are increased tensions between Israel and the US, due in part to uncertainty about a new US administration, appointment of George Mitchell as Mid-East envoy, plan to engage Iran in dialogue and the recent Israeli elections which placed the much more conservative “Bibi” Netanyahu (as compared to Tipi [...]

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Over at the Washington Note, Steve Clemons has an interesting post (and video) about an interview he did yesterday with a member of Palestinian Fatah who supports a pro-unity government. It is a very interesting dialogue and worth checking out. The post is here and there is a video link once you get [...]

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China continues to throw it’s economic weight around and seems to have been successful in ensuring that other countries ignore it’s deplorable human rights record.
When Secretary Clinton went on her first overseas trip to Asia, she managed to appease a nervous Chinese Government by declaring that China’s worsening human rights, rigid communism and [...]

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President Obama is not even two full months into his first term and by all accounts, he has hit the ground running and is trying to deal with two wars, an economic disaster he inherited, education, health care and strengthening ties with international allies and rehabilitating our image among friend and foe alike.
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Chas Freeman has bowed out as Obama’s Director of the National Intelligence Council after strong criticism from pro-Israel hawks and others. Now a controversy is again erupting over, you guessed it, the influence that the pro-Israel lobby (”The Lobby”) has over US politics. It used to be that social security was seen [...]

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