Posts Tagged ‘Secretary of State Hillary’
Everything You Wanted to Know About Obama’s »
RubinReportsBarry RubinYes, children, there is an Obama Doctrine. The administration has now produced a National Security Strategy.I’m tempted to say that in this document the Obama Administration does a Dr. Kevorkian on U.S. power. The White House wants to prove most of all that it isn’t the George W. Bush Administration but in doing so it [...]
The Learning Curve Option is Already Around the Bend »
RubinReportsBarry RubinA well-connected and experienced policymaking friend mentioned in passing the question of whether the Obama Administration is still in the midst of a "learning curve" that might bring about a more realistic, workable foreign policy.This is precisely what I expected to happen in late 2009. The only question was whether the [...]
Charge: Obama Systematically Ignores PA Hate-Mongering »
Hillel Fendel'Obama Ignoring PA Incitement'A7 NewsEver since U.S. President Barack Obama’s famous Cairo speech, and up until these very days, incitement against Israel in and by the Palestinian Authority is being whitewashed by the Obama-Clinton administration. This is the unambiguous conclusion reached by the Director of the Center for Middle [...]
How Sudan Shows the World’s Future; Dictator: »
RubinReportsBarry RubinYou might not care about Sudan but Sudan cares about you. Here's a dictator who--as he murders his own people--openly brags: America is on my side. That interpretation of what the Obama Administration's policies mean is likely to spread.This is a consequence of a foreign policy that can be summed up as: being tough on [...]
Honest Ahmadinejad »
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704342604575222351143435766.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTopThe only serious person at the U.N. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should get out more. We mean that without irony. The Iranian President spoke yesterday in New York at the start of the U.N. conference reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and [...]
Yawn! Iran may be able to build a missile capable of »
RubinReportsBarry RubinIran may be able to build a missile capable of striking the United States by 2015, according to a new U.S. Department of Defense report.I was wondering how to follow up that sentence in this article but by accident, in cutting and pasting the text of the Reuters story, the "Related News" items accidentally came with it. [...]
Still refuse to accept: U.S. officials slam »
Barak Ravidhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1164297.html United States administration officials have voiced harsh criticism over advertisements in favor of Israel's position on Jerusalem that appeared in the U.S. press with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's encouragement. The authors of the most recent such advertisements were president of [...]
Advice to President Obama: Listen to Candidate Obama »
Alan Stein Shana Habbab (AP White House Correspondent) (AP) — An unidentified Israeli official has confirmed that private discussions between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu included an urgent request from the President that the traditional closing refrain “next year in Jerusalem” be deleted during the upcoming [...]
Clinton Pushes Israel, not PA, to Take Risks for Peace »
Maayana Miskin A7 NewsUnited States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has increased the pressure on Israel again to strengthen the PLO and Fatah and make concessions to the Palestinian Authority. The pressure is an apparent response to an impasse in talks between Israel and the PA, which has refused to hold direct negotiations. It is in direct [...]
Congress Calls on Obama for Action Against Iran- »
newsmax -4.11.10email-no urlA letter to President Barack Obama from two unlikely congressional allies urging strong action against Iran has gained wide support on both sides of the aisle.The letter was originally signed by Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois and House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence of Indiana and circulated [...]
