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Uri Dan’s Famous Phrase
I srael, as you may have heard, has a new justice minister, law professor Daniel Friedmann, who has replaced acting justice minister Tzipi Livni, who replaced former justice minister Haim Ramon, who was just convicted by a Jerusalem court of an “obscene act” for kissing a young female soldier against her will. Ramon had charged…
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A Shabbos Iraq Vote!?! What Will Joe Do?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has reportedly set a cloture vote for Saturday on the debate over President Bush’s Iraq policy.
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Attention All Vulnerable Dems, Debbie Wasserman Schultz Has Your Back
The Democrats already putting the GOP on notice that they’re not taking anything for granted in 2008: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida will head the campaign to protect the party’s vulnerable members in the next elections, according to this press release sent out yesterday by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Wasserman is chairing the…
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Obama: Looking for a Jewish Groove
James Besser reports this week that Barack Obama is stepping up his Jewish push. Obama might end up delivering a major address later this month at the plenum of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and has tapped Dan Shapiro, a former National Security Council official in the Clinton administration, to work on Middle East…
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Abu Mazen Losing a Friend in Congress
In another sign that the Hamas-Fatah unity deal is not going over well in Congress, Rep. Gary Ackerman, chair of the Middle East subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, says he no longer supports U.S. aid to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmound Abbas (aka Abu Mazen). Check out his speech at a meeting Wednesday…
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Jerz GOPers for Guiliani
As big states like New York, California, New Jersey and Florida consider moving their primaries up to February 5 or even earlier, pundits are predicting that such moves would give a boost to the field’s best known contenders in general, and to New Yorkers Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani in particular. At this very early…
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Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You (About Al Franken)
Al Franken says he’s running in 2008 against Senator Norm Coleman. Back in February 2005 Franken told the Forward that he was considering a run. Check out Jennifer Siegel’s recent reports (here and here) to see how the comedian-pundit has been laying the groundwork for his campaign and how he’s doing.
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Dodd: ‘I Made A Mistake’
Asked about his 2002 Iraq vote on Hardball yesterday, Sen. Chris Dodd took a different tack than “If I had known then what I know now” Hillary. “I made a mistake,” Dodd told host Christ Matthews. “I know you’re not supposed to say that in politics.” Asked about the situation in Iraq, Dodd said he…
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Rahm Emanuel: ‘I’m Too Thin to Get Squeezed’
Lynn Sweet has a post up about Rahm’s continued discomfort over questions about who he will support – Clinton or Obama.
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From Rahm to John
The Edwards campaign announces state directors for Iowa and New Hampshire … In Iowa, it’s Jennifer O’Malley, who previously served as the Northeast regional political director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee under Rep. Rahm Emanuel.
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Israeli Rightist Warns That Bush’s Iraq Policy Could Hurt Effort To Combat Iran
Efraim “Effi” Eitam, a leader of Israel’s right-wing Orthodox Zionist camp, is criticizing President Bush’s Iraq policy, saying it could end up undermining efforts to confront Iran. Eitam, who sits on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and is the leader of the Renewed National Religious Zionist party, spent three days last week in…
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