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...Israeli leaders, meanwhile, along with their most vocal supporters on Capitol Hill, are alarmed both at the prospect of a U.S. diplomatic dance with Iran and Syria, and by the ISG's assertion that prospects for success in Iraq and elsewhere in the region depend on Washington's ability to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, commenting on the report Thursday, told reporters: "The attempt to create linkage between the Iraqi issue and the Mideast issue - we have a different view...
...much has changed in the Administration's policy positions. And despite the urgent pleas of such key U.S. allies as Jordan's King Abdullah - and even Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair - for a speedy resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there would likely be a strong backlash on Capitol Hill against any move to tie progress in Iraq to progress on the Israeli-Palestinian front...
...citizen of North Korea, which lacks diplomatic relations with the U.S., he requires State Department permission to travel beyond a 25-mile radius of the city. During his time as ambassador, Pak has traveled outside New York—to Washington, D.C., for example—to visit Capitol Hill. But the State Department should have realized the importance of his viewpoint and issued him a visa to speak at Harvard. The measure of a speaker’s merit is not the content of the ideas he or she represents. Instead, it is the importance of those ideas...
...failed Bush Administration policies there. But while seeking to "pivot off that to put it squarely back in the lap of the President to propose a way forward in Iraq," in the words of one senior Democratic aide, "there's definitely a sense of wariness up here on Capitol Hill...
...senior Marine general leaves his Pentagon office and heads to Capitol Hill Wednesday with grim news from Iraq. In a series of private briefings, he's expected to tell lawmakers that serious criminal charges - possibly including murder - are going to be leveled against as many as five Marines for the bloodbath at Haditha last year. The heads-up comes two weeks before the Marines are expected to publicly unveil the charges the week of Dec. 18 at the Marine base at Camp Pendleton, California...