He seemed eager to talk about his ties to the Jewish community, and about the influence Jews have had on his life. We spoke as well about my Atlantic cover story on Israel's future. One of the things I loved about Israel when I went there is that the land itself is a metaphor for rebirth, for what's ...
Richard Cohen - McCain in the Mud
washingtonpost.comFound 52 days, 16 hours, 55 minutes, and 44 seconds agoOn the Middle East, McCain has little to say and a distinctly ugly way of saying it.
Obama: Israel a "constant sore" that "infects... foreign policy"
directorblue.blogspot.comFound 53 days, 9 hours, 46 minutes, and 9 seconds agoInterviewed in The Atlantic, Barack Obama tells us that Israel is a "constant wound... a constant sore..." and an infection. Gateway Pundit caught Obama's latest inflammatory remarks. Jeff Goldberg:--- Do you think that Israel is a drag on America's reputation overseas? ...
Obama and Israel
frum.nationalreview.comFound 53 days, 13 hours, 21 minutes, and 19 seconds agoExtracting a straight answer from Barack Obama is admittedly like nailing the proverbial Jello to the wall. Here Jeffrey Goldberg goes to work to try ... . . .
Obama: Why, some of my best friends are Jewish!
hotair.comFound 53 days, 9 hours, 5 minutes, and 41 seconds agoMany people have e-mailed Jeffrey Goldberg's fascinating interview with Barack Obama on the subject of Israel, noting that he used the term "wound" and "sore" in reference to the Israeli-Palestinian situation. ...
Running Interference for Obama, Part 2
powerlineblog.comFound 52 days, 19 hours, 47 minutes, and 16 seconds agoWord that Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama has finally leaked into the mainstream press, mostly in the form of reporters...
Gasp!
campaignspot.nationalreview.comFound 53 days, 11 hours, 36 minutes, and 15 seconds agoWhen Jeffrey Goldberg interviews Barack Obama, the candidate offers some reassuring statements, like this...When I visited Ramallah, among a group of ... . . .
Israel is 'A Constant Sore'
littlegreenfootballs.comFound 52 days, 11 hours, 48 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
reason.com
Barack Obama, trying to stitch back together his reputation with Jewish voters, gives a hearty interview to Jeffrey Goldberg. They talk about Israel and the settlements. BO: Look, my interest is in solving this problem not only for Israel but for the United States. ...
Found 52 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes, and 42 seconds ago
corner.nationalreview.com
Rich - just for people who don't have time to go through the entire Atlantic interview , the section in which Obama brings up his middle name is this:
Found 53 days, 11 hours, 39 minutes, and 40 seconds ago
hughhewitt.townhall.com
Jennifer Rubin comments here and here .
Found 52 days, 18 hours, 32 minutes, and 39 seconds ago
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
12 May 2008 12:35 pm
A fascinating interview with my colleague, Jeffrey Goldberg: Obama and I spoke over the weekend about Hamas, about Jimmy Carter, and
about the future of Jewish settlements on the West Bank. He seemed
eager to talk about his ties to the Jewish community, and about the
influence Jews have had on his life. Among other things, he told me
that he learned the art of moral anguish from Jews. We spoke as well
about my Atlantic cover story
on Israel's future. He mentioned his interest in the opinions of the
writer David Grossman, who is featured in the article.
Found 53 days, 16 hours, 4 minutes, and 26 seconds ago
proteinwisdom.com
The AP's Jennifer Loven covers Barack Obama's speech on patriotism, in which he said he "will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign" and implictly threw his surrogate Wesley Clark under the campaign bus for questioning John McCain's war record. [Update: Here's the official squishing sound. -K]
The Hill notes that Obama also implicitly whacked MoveOn for its "General Betray Us" ad last year. Yet Obama refused to vote on a Senate resolution condemning MoveOn's attack at the time, saying, "By not casting a vote, I registered my protest against these empty politics.
Found 52 days, 21 hours, 37 minutes, and 1 second ago
proteinwisdom.com
Imagine the press release needed to explain Barack Obama's comments in The Atlantic :
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg published on The Atlantic's website, Barack Obama referred to Israel as "this constant sore," that "does infect all of our foreign policy."
This comment should not be taken out of the context of the entire interview, in which Obama also called himself a "friend" of Israel and that his fondness for the Exodus story speaks to his own belief in Black Liberation Theology , as taught by his longtime spiritual adviser, the Rev.
Found 53 days, 11 hours, 18 minutes, and 49 seconds ago
digbysblog.blogspot.com
So off of that, the Republican leader in the House John Boehner has decided that Obama called Israel a constant wound and a constant sore , instead of what he actually said, that the conflict is a wound, and conflict resolution is preferable.
Found 52 days, 16 hours, 5 minutes, and 45 seconds ago
redstate.com
Why, our policy with respect to Israel, of course :
JG : Do you think that Israel is a drag on America's reputation overseas?
BO : No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound , that this constant sore , does infect all of our foreign policy . The lack of a resolution to this problem provides an excuse for anti-American militant jihadists to engage in inexcusable actions, and so we have a national-security interest in solving this , and I also believe that Israel has a security interest in solving this because I believe that the status quo is unsustainable.
Found 53 days, 12 hours, 31 minutes, and 23 seconds ago
theanchoressonline.com
Q: First off, I have to ask, what is it with the Sarah Jessica Parker worship ? What is it that fascinates ?
A: You're asking the wrong girl. I don't get it. She's moderately attractive, sometimes wears interesting things…I don't know why week after week after week she is everywhere I look, and has been for several years, now. But then, I've never seen that show, Sex and the City. I don't know who any of those women are. And I'm sure they're all broken up about it, too.
Q: Yesterday we wondered if all the bad news, earthquakes, natural disasters (now there is a threat to wheat ) volcanos going swoosh and boom were reminding anyone of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse .
Found 52 days, 17 hours, 15 minutes, and 51 seconds ago
thepoorman.net
ROFL Cohen is making sense :
In 2000, I boarded John McCain's campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, and, in a metaphorical sense, never got off. Here, truly, was something new under the political sun -- a politician who bristled with integrity and seemed to have nothing to hide [*coughcough* Keating Five . I continue to admire McCain for those and other reasons, but the bus I once rode has gone wobbly. Recently, it veered into the mud. [...]
At 71, McCain would be the oldest man ever elected president, and so age has to be a consideration.
Found 52 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes, and 53 seconds ago
salon.com
With that in mind, Greg Sargent raises a good point about the context:
These strike me as less a signal of a coming change in his position on withdrawal and more like a combined effort to defuse the charge that he'll withdraw recklessly and to preserve flexibility as commander in chief.
Quite right.
Found 428 days, 11 hours, 59 minutes, and 14 seconds ago
blogs.salon.com
Edward N. Luttwark, writing in the New York Times , points out a potential problem for those who hope that Barack Obama having a Muslim father can help him bridge differences between the west and the Islamic world. Quite the opposite:
In Islam, however, there is no such thing as a half-Muslim. Like all monotheistic religions, Islam is an exclusive faith.
As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion.
Found 53 days, 14 hours, 14 minutes, and 22 seconds ago
soccerdad.baltiblogs.com
During an interview in The Atlantic with Jeffrey Goldberg's Barack Obama came out with the following : JEFFREY GOLDBERG : I'm curious to hear you talk about the Zionist idea. Do you believe that it has justice on its side? BARACK OBAMA : You know, when I think about the Zionist idea, I think about how my feelings about Israel were shaped as a young man - as a child, in fact. I had a camp counselor when I was in sixth grade who was Jewish-American but who had spent time in Israel, and during the course of this two-week camp he shared with me the idea of returning to a homeland and what that meant for people who had suffered from the Holocaust, and he talked about the idea of preserving a culture when a people had been uprooted with the view of eventually returning home.
Found 53 days, 14 hours, 14 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
cdrsalamander.blogspot.com
The Atlantic
Found 52 days, 22 hours, 10 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
delong.typepad.com
Richard Cohen now appears to be aware that he is an idiot:
McCain in the Mud : In 2000, I boarded John McCain's campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, and, in a metaphorical sense, never got off. Here, truly, was something new under the political sun -- a politician who bristled with integrity and seemed to have nothing to hide. I continue to admire McCain....
McCain's charge that Barack Obama is the favored presidential candidate of Hamas. The citation for this remark is the statement of Ahmed Yousef, a Hamas political adviser, who.
Found 52 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
politics.nashvillepost.com
Barack Obama talks about his relationships with Jews in his political life:
The other irony in this whole process is that in my early political life in Chicago, one of the raps against me in the black community is that I was too close to the Jews. When I ran against Bobby Rush [for Congress], the perception was that I was Hyde Park, I'm University of Chicago, I've got all these Jewish friends. When I started organizing, the two fellow organizers in Chicago were Jews, and I was attacked for associating with them.
Found 53 days, 15 hours, 8 minutes, and 1 second ago
freerepublic.com
The Atlantic ^ | May 12, 2008 | Jeffrey Goldberg
Found 53 days, 9 hours, 48 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
crosstabs.org
Why, our policy with respect to Israel, of course :
JG : Do you think that Israel is a drag on America's reputation overseas?
BO : No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound , that this constant sore , does infect all of our foreign policy . The lack of a resolution to this problem provides an excuse for anti-American militant jihadists to engage in inexcusable actions, and so we have a national-security interest in solving this , and I also believe that Israel has a security interest in solving this because I believe that the status quo is unsustainable.
Found 53 days, 12 hours, 31 minutes, and 44 seconds ago
blog.washingtonpost.com
: Obama has wavered somewhat about whether or not he will participate in the public financing system in the general election. McCain is playing within the system and, if Obama opts out, is likely to use it as a way to show that the Illinois senator says one thing or does another. On the other hand, Obama has demonstrated during the primary season a nearly unlimited fundraising capacity and, if he chooses to take public dollars, he could be unnecessarily handcuffing himself.
Found 52 days, 1 hour, 1 minute, and 17 seconds ago
westernstandard.blogs.com
I guess that "BO" should stick to the script:
JG : Do you think that Israel is a drag on America's reputation overseas?
BO : No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy.
Posted by Adam T. Yoshida on May 12, 2008 at 09:23 PM
Found 53 days, 7 hours, 2 minutes, and 12 seconds ago
tothepeople.com
âThis is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein , and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so heâs not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush,â and thatâs something theyâre hopeful about. I think thatâs a perfectly legitimate perception as long as theyâre not confused about my unyielding support for Israelâs security. Full interview here .
Found 52 days, 20 hours, 28 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
prometheus6.org
He's been running around the country costumed as a George W. Bush conservative. McCain's tax plan is a joke, and his foreign policy is frightening.
When McCain says that he would be Hamas's worst nightmare, what in the world is he talking about? Almost on a daily basis, Hamas launches rockets into southern Israel, occasionally killing some poor soul. The latest victim was a woman of about 70 who was killed yesterday. Israel usually retaliates, and Palestinians -- some of them just as innocent as the Israeli victim -- are killed.
Found 52 days, 14 hours, 41 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
stevesilver.net
Jeffrey Goldberg has an illuminating interview with Obama , about the subjects of Israel and his appeal to Jewish voters: When it comes to the gut issue, I have such ardent defenders among my Jewish friends in Chicago. I don't think people have noticed how fiercely they defend me, and how central they are to my success, because they've interacted with me long enough to know that I've got it in my gut. During the Wright episode, they didn't flinch for a minute, because they know me and trust me, and they've seen me operate in difficult political situations.
Found 53 days, 13 hours, 21 minutes, and 45 seconds ago
gaypatriot.net
During my morning blog read, I followed Glenn Reynolds' link to Don Surber's post on our all too dainty politics .
That Charleston columnist pointed out that Richard Cohen, one of his peers from a paper in the nation's capitol, had faulted the presumptive Republican nominee for engaging in the " the sort of campaigning " he had once " vowed to eschew ."
And what had John McCain done to warrant this this tongue-lashing?
He had said, "Barack Obama's foreign policy plans have even won him praise from Hamas leaders.
Found 51 days, 14 hours, 16 minutes, and 12 seconds ago
observer.com
The Obama campaign is focusing on states that will be competitive in the general election. Terry McAuliffe says Hillary Clinton is in it until June 3. Minnesota Governor (and McCain campaign co-chair) Tim Pawlenty makes a sort of funny joke that is drawing criticism . Lynn Sweet thinks today Barack Obama "just about conceded" West Virginia , which holds its primary tomorrow. Obama gains three more superdelegates . Obama criticizes the people (hippies!) who didn't honor Vietnam vets , and, as Jonathan Martin notes, he kills two birds with one stone in the process.
Found 53 days, 12 hours, 24 minutes, and 4 seconds ago
weeklystandard.com
Jeffrey Goldberg scores an interview with Obama on Israel. A few comments jump out, starting with this one:
One of the things that is frustrating about the recent conversations on Israel is the loss of what I think is the natural affinity between the African-American community and the Jewish community, one that was deeply understood by Jewish and black leaders in the early civil-rights movement but has been estranged for a whole host of reasons that you and I donât need to elaborate.
Found 53 days, 16 hours, 4 minutes, and 14 seconds ago
daledamos.blogspot.com
During an interview in The Atlantic with Jeffrey Goldberg's Barack Obama came out with the following : JEFFREY GOLDBERG : I'm curious to hear you talk about the Zionist idea. Do you believe that it has justice on its side? BARACK OBAMA : You know, when I think about the Zionist idea, I think about how my feelings about Israel were shaped as a young man -- as a child, in fact. I had a camp counselor when I was in sixth grade who was Jewish-American but who had spent time in Israel, and during the course of this two-week camp he shared with me the idea of returning to a homeland and what that meant for people who had suffered from the Holocaust, and he talked about the idea of preserving a culture when a people had been uprooted with the view of eventually returning home.
Found 53 days, 15 hours, 5 minutes, and 55 seconds ago
madpercolator.com
( http://www.slate.com/id/2191193/ ) and Barack Obama
Found 53 days, 14 hours, 13 minutes, and 33 seconds ago
brothersjuddblog.com
Obama on Zionism and Hamas (Jeffery Goldberg, 12 May 2008, Atlantic Unbound)
Found 53 days, 13 hours, 21 minutes, and 1 second ago
neoconexpress.blogspot.com
Obama on Zionism, Israel and Hamas... and my Translation
Found 53 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
vwt.d2g.com:8081
HERE
Found 53 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
ibloga.blogspot.com
HERE
Found 53 days, 12 hours, 17 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
socraticgadfly.blogspot.com
Barack Obama sits down with Atlantic's Jeffrey Golberg and discusses Hamas, Zionism and more.
Found 53 days, 11 hours, 38 minutes, and 3 seconds ago
backyardconservative.blogspot.com
UPDATE: Media bloggers Jake Tapper and Marc Ambinder , among others, are suggesting Republicans are twisting Obama's words. Sorry, but no--Barack Obama puts the onus on Israel--by his not recognizing the Islamofascist threat. It's not a "cycle of violence"--to use that tired old phrase liberals like to use for moral equivalence between terrorists who deliberately target civilians and hide behind the innocent, and the army of a democratic country which defends its citizens and targets terrorists.
Found 53 days, 11 hours, 36 minutes, and 46 seconds ago
atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com
UPDATE: Michael Goldfarb makes an salient point on an 11 year old Obama's anecdote: "You know, when I think about the Zionist idea, I think about how my feelings about Israel were shaped as a young man -- as a child, in fact. I had a camp counselor when I was in sixth grade who was Jewish-American but who had spent time in Israel, and during the course of this two-week camp he shared with me the idea of returning to a homeland and what that meant for people who had suffered from the Holocaust, and he talked about the idea of preserving a culture when a people had been uprooted with the view of eventually returning home.
Found 53 days, 9 hours, 46 minutes, and 19 seconds ago
smoothstone.blogspot.com
Jeffrey Goldberg held a very revealing interview with Barack Obama over the weekend that is posted at The Atlantic website.
Found 53 days, 9 hours, 45 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
snarkybastards.com
Obama touts his middle name as an asset:
Look, we don't do nuance well in politics and especially don't do it well on Middle East policy. We look at things as black and white, and not gray. It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, "This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein, and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush," and that's something they're hopeful about.
Found 53 days, 9 hours, 44 minutes, and 16 seconds ago
blogofascists.com
In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic, Barack Obama presents himself as the best friend Israel ever had.
Then he proceeds to call Israel a "constant sore" that "infects all of our foreign policy:" Obama on Zionism and Hamas .
JG: Do you think that Israel is a drag on America's reputation overseas?
BO: No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy.
(Hat tip: Protein Wisdom .)
Found 53 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
wethefree.blogspot.com
clipped from campaignspot.nationalreview.com
Found 53 days, 7 hours, 37 minutes, and 59 seconds ago
andybachman.com
Omer Day Twenty-Three
An interesting and important interview between Jeffrey Goldberg and Senator Obama in the Atlantic.
Jeffrey Goldberg's interview was covered today by the Times as well.
Martin Peretz gives it some thought as well in the New Republic.
Found 53 days, 7 hours, and 47 seconds ago
honestpartisan.blogspot.com
Naturally, the McCain campaign has jumped all over a statement by a spokesman for Hamas that they hope Obama wins the election (Obama addresses the issue here ), a perfect occasion to raise the point that the CIA arrived at a consensus that Osama bin Laden released an audiotape the Friday before the 2004 election in an attempt to sway the election toward Bush.
Found 53 days, 6 hours, 28 minutes, and 29 seconds ago
discardedlies.com
Cheezburger, starring Fry and Bender
Found 53 days, 4 hours, 46 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
fox-tractorfacts.blogspot.com
HERE
Found 53 days, 3 hours, 38 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
pajamaguy.blogspot.com
That's why I expect Barack to spend a lot of time (he's already started , some would say) and money rebranding himself.
Found 53 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes, and 21 seconds ago
theodoresworld.net
Obama on Zionism and Hamas
The Atlantic.com .....for entire article
Jeffrey Goldberg
The Hamas leader Ahmed Yousef did Barack Obama no favor recently when he said: âWe like Mr. Obama and we hope that he will win the election.â John McCain jumped on this statement, calling it a âlegitimate point of discussion,â and tied it to Obamaâs putative softness on Iran, whose ever-charming president last week called Israel a âstinking corpseâ and predicted its âannihilation.â
Jeffrey Goldberg and an interview with Obama on Israel:
Found 52 days, 23 hours, 51 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
yidwithlid.blogspot.com
Obama on Zionism and Hamas
Found 52 days, 23 hours, 51 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
tedfrank.com
What the NY Times story doesn't mention : as Juneau residents suffer greatly and make many sacrifices to cut their electric bills, they have shown that their short-term elasticity for a 382% price increase in power costs, dropped their usage by less than 40%.
Found 52 days, 22 hours, 59 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
bokertov.typepad.com
Ed Morrissey :
Found 52 days, 22 hours, 9 minutes, and 7 seconds ago
neveryetmelted.com
In order to assist in some necessary cozying back up to liberal Jewish voters after his recent endorsement by Hamas, Jeffrey Goldberg did a softball interview with his Obamatude in the Atlantic.
Obama assures Goldberg that some of his best intellectual influences are Jewish and that he thinks Zionism is peachy keen, then he puts his foot in it.
Found 52 days, 20 hours, 25 minutes, and 43 seconds ago
economist.com
DID John Boehner, the Republican leader in the House, really issue a press release about Barack Obama's stance on Israel that is "mendacious, duplicitous, gross, and comically refutable"? Jeffrey Goldberg, whose interview with Mr Obama is the starting point for Mr Boehner's statement, thinks he did . I can't remember a candidate who has had to work harder to convince voters of his support for Israel. Anyone who wants to know Mr Obama's position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would do well to read the complete transcript of Mr Goldberg's interview with the candidate.
Found 52 days, 18 hours, 26 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
supremeirony.blogspot.com
But only for a moment :
Found 52 days, 16 hours, 55 minutes, and 43 seconds ago
blogd.com
Obama partisans are claiming that he said that the Midle East [sic] conflict is a constant sore. But quite clearly the antecedent to "this constant wound, that this constant sore" in the question is "Israel." Perhaps the Harvard-trained lawyer who tells us that words are important wants us to believe he was just sloppy. Or maybe words don't matter when he doesn't want them to?
What dishonesty. In their quotes, they only cite the one paragraph by Obama, completely omitting the preceding paragraphs which lay down the understood subject as the conflict; as the Washington Post pointed out :
Found 52 days, 16 hours, 23 minutes, and 7 seconds ago
bitsblog.florack.us
I told you people a year back when the liberals were busy boarding the "Straight Talk Experess" that if he ever got close to the White House , they'd start finding excuses to bail out.
So, comes today, the bespecticled Richard Cohen , leaping out the bus window, saying:
In 2000, I boarded John McCain 's campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, and, in a metaphorical sense, never got off. Here, truly, was something new under the political sun -- a politician who bristled with integrity and seemed to have nothing to hide.
Found 52 days, 14 hours, 41 minutes, and 24 seconds ago
polwaves.planetwaves.net
within a year or so. He's running on the George Bush playbook, the same man he called "dumb as a stump" a few years ago. Here's a good read on John's [flippin'] dilemma.
Yesterday the Old Coot [60% say age is an issue] droned on and on about stewardship of the planet, fussing up the corporate's and some of the base [which is split nicely, with Ron Paul and Bob Barr ready to cut into his numbers, Libertarian spoilers in an already shaky Pub landscape.
Found 52 days, 14 hours, 41 minutes, and 33 seconds ago
blogrevolution.com
McCain in the Mud
Found 52 days, 2 hours, 29 minutes, and 8 seconds ago
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
Found 53 days, 16 hours, 4 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
nydailynews.com
Paterson spent some quality time upstate with Sen. Chuck Schumer, who was no big fan of the governor's predecessor.
Schumer has changed his mind about the dream ticket.
Clinton struck a poignant note with a "thank-you" Web video to supporters .
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg interviewed Obama on Zionism and Hamas (not to mention kishke).
The Working Families Party endorsed "Baby" Joe Mesi in the 61st SD.
Schumer and Mayor Bloomberg disagree over development on the West Side.
Found 53 days, 11 hours, 49 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
redstatenetwork.com
Why, our policy with respect to Israel, of course :
JG : Do you think that Israel is a drag on America's reputation overseas?
BO : No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound , that this constant sore , does infect all of our foreign policy . The lack of a resolution to this problem provides an excuse for anti-American militant jihadists to engage in inexcusable actions, and so we have a national-security interest in solving this , and I also believe that Israel has a security interest in solving this because I believe that the status quo is unsustainable.
Found 53 days, 13 hours, 10 minutes, and 7 seconds ago
jihadwatcher.com
Little Green Footballs : When Discredited Hacks Attack
Found 53 days, 18 hours, 56 minutes, and 32 seconds ago
astuteblogger.blogspot.com
Obama's remarks seem to parallel those of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad .
Found 53 days, 7 hours, 49 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
english.webster.co.il
Yesterday evening, the life of 70-year-old grandmother Shuli Katz (pictured left) was snuffed out by palestinian terrorists, who took credit for her death, referring to her as a "settlement." (hat tip: Elder of Ziyon )
Ironically, Shuli and her son were on their way to visit her sister-in-law on Moshav Yesha - where the rocket struck - because her sister-in-law was afraid to visit Shuli at her home near Ashkelon, after the two rockets that struck Ashkelon earlier in the day.
Found 53 days, 17 hours, 24 minutes, and 33 seconds ago
rightwingsparkle.blogspot.com
Jennifer Rubin at CommentaryMagazine.com has this on Barack Obama's interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of Atlantic Monthly on Israel and Hamas.
Found 52 days, 21 hours, 23 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
bsimmons.wordpress.com
Permalink
Found 52 days, 19 hours, 45 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
townhall.com
Jennifer Rubin comments here and here .
Found 52 days, 19 hours, 9 minutes, and 35 seconds ago
salon.com
With that in mind, Greg Sargent raises a good point about the context:
These strike me as less a signal of a coming change in his position on withdrawal and more like a combined effort to defuse the charge that he'll withdraw recklessly and to preserve flexibility as commander in chief.
Quite right.
Found 428 days, 12 hours, 31 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
d-day.blogspot.com
So off of that, the Republican leader in the House John Boehner has decided that Obama called Israel a constant wound and a constant sore , instead of what he actually said, that the conflict is a wound, and conflict resolution is preferable.
Found 52 days, 15 hours, 57 minutes, and 40 seconds ago
nitpicker.blogspot.com
Mr. Boehner, I'm sure, is a terribly busy man, with many burdensome responsibilities, so I have to assume that he simply didn't have time to read the entire Obama interview, or even the entire paragraph, or even a single clause. If he had, of course, he
Found 52 days, 13 hours, 55 minutes, and 54 seconds ago