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...while offering conciliatory gestures to our enemies. While this trend as a whole is questionable at best, one of the most dangerous effects it has had is the suggestion offered by some that the U.S. should in some way weaken or rethink its alliance with Israel. Most disconcertingly, the Obama administration seems to be taking this idea to heart, as evidenced by its recent snub of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat, put it, “President Obama’s abysmal attitude toward the State of Israel...
...Arabs in the Israeli parliament—Israel is in fact one of the only places in the Middle East where Muslim women can vote. On the other hand, the Jordanian government has recently revoked the citizenship of nearly 3,000 Palestinian Jordanians to nothing but silence from the Obama administration. In the meantime, the Hamas government in Gaza fires rockets at Israeli schools and towns from behind human shields. There can be no moral equivalency between Israel and its neighbors...
...unlikely case that Obama chooses poorly or his team fails to execute an effective rollout strategy, a botched pick would likely be too tempting a target for conservatives to ignore. If Obama chooses well and his strategists frame the pick in the right way - and no one expects the next Justice to differ vastly in ideology from Stevens - this could end up being one of the most anticlimactic Supreme Court confirmations of the modern...
...confirmation of a new Justice lacks drama, it will be an exception in a political year that is shaping up to be bloody and intense. Both sides are ready to have it out over the role and size of government and over Obama's stewardship of American foreign policy. For Republicans, and Democrats, those are battles enough...
...tale of how she used her book as a cover for her work as an American spy - a "confession" she later recanted. After a sham trial, she was sentenced to eight years in prison. Thanks in large part to international calls for her release (most notably from President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton), Saberi was freed on May 11, 2009. She returned home to publish Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran - a much different book than the one she initially planned on writing. (See an audio slide show of Iranian society...