http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.dems28jan28,0,4218638.story Real Progress Comes from Within! by Donna Edwards for TWFU, Tue Jan 23, 2007 at 03:45:34 PM EST bumped – Matt I am a Democrat. I’m proud to be a Democrat. I couldn’t be happier that the Democrats control the House and Senate. But, I want a strong, progressive Democratic majority ruling the Congress,…
Kenneth Stein, the Emory University professor who resigned as a Middle East fellow at the Carter Center last December, just published his scathing analysis of “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” in the spring, 2007 edition of Middle East Quarterly. Carter’s book, Stein writes, “contains egregious errors of both commission and omission. To suit his desired ends,…
UNITED NATIONS – As part of its latest effort to ratchet up pressure against Iran at the United Nations, the Bush administration introduced a resolution this week condemning Holocaust denial. The U.N. General Assembly was expected to adopt the measure overwhelmingly. The resolution, tabled Monday, calls upon all member states to “reject any denial of…
Al Franken is not yet officially running for the Senate, but the comedian-turned-liberal pundit already may have unleashed the best joke of his campaign. Franken’s favorite quip, the one he has repeated frequently at Democratic fundraisers over the past year, is that if he runs, he would be the only New York Jew in the…
Samuel Sherman from Cherry Hill, N.J., writes: “In the traditional Hebrew and Yiddish greeting of shalom aleykhem, literally, ‘peace be upon you,’ the ‘you’ [aleykhem] is masculine plural, but the greeting is the same whether one is addressing many people or just one. And in the Catholic church there is a Latin greeting, pax vobiscum,…
Herzliya, Israel – Israel’s most prestigious annual gathering of national security strategists, meeting here under the shadow of Iranian threats and Palestinian violence, heard a succession of Israel’s highest-ranking officials call for renewed diplomacy as the best way to keep Israel safe. Defying a rash of international speculation that either Israel or America is planning…
Escalating violence between black and Latino gangs in Southern California has generated national headlines of late, but for local law enforcement the main attraction in Disney-country has been the “Needle Nazis.” In recent months, authorities have launched a crackdown against the little-known gang “Public Enemy Number 1,” which also goes by the name PENI. Members…
Washington – While President Bush was preparing this week’s State of the Union address, with its emphasis on reaching out to Democrats through small-bore domestic measures, one of the most liberal Democrats in Congress was moving forward with a far more ambitious version of bipartisanship: a “grand bargain” between business and labor to endorse each…
Herzliya, Israel – When Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni spoke this week before the seventh annual Herzliya Conference on the Balance of Israel’s National Security, her dignified bearing and statesmanlike appeals to Israeli patriotism struck many observers like a breath of fresh air in a smoky room In the past week, Israel’s leadership scandals spiraled into…
A coalition of pro-Israel organizations last week voted unanimously to retain the membership of a dovish Zionist student group accused of hosting Israel bashers on American campuses. On January 19, the steering committee of the Israel on Campus Coalition, which seeks to bolster Israel’s image at colleges and at universities, roundly rejected a move by…
American charitable dollars raised to aid war-torn areas in Israel are being used to teach Arabic to Jewish children. The Jewish Agency for Israel is partnering with the Abraham Fund Initiatives, an organization that advocates for equality between Jews and Arabs in Israel, to teach Arabic to Jewish children in the north of Israel. Both…
