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Jews, Muslims in Canada Fight Over Hezbollah
TORONTO – In a reflection of growing tensions between Canada’s Jewish and Arab communities, spawned by the Lebanon War, B’nai Brith Canada last week called for a crackdown on protesters who wave the Hezbollah flag at anti-Israel demonstrations. B’nai Brith made the demand after 15,000 residents of Quebec, mainly Lebanese-Canadians, marched in a pro-Hezbollah demonstration…
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Backing Halutz
In the wake of stock-dump-gate, two of Israel’s most respected security figures, Shaul Mofaz and Avi Dichter, are vocing support for Israeli military chief of staff Dan Halutz.
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Edwards Jumping On the Lamont Bandwagon…
John Edwards – former North Carolina senator, 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee and likely 2008 contender – is on it. According to the Lamont campaign, Edwards will endorse him officially on Thursday, at a joint appearance in New Haven.
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Focusing On Evangelical Votes
In what’s being viewed as an effort to boost flagging Republicans, James Dobson and Focus on the Family are launching a campaign to sign up evangelical Christian voters. Americans United For the Separation of Church State issued this statement claiming that participating congregations could risk their non-profit status.
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Antisemitism Exists, Vote Santorum
We received two messages in two days from the Rick Santorum camp, pointing recipients here and here. The argument seems to be that the mere existence of antisemitism is reason enough to support Santorum.
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Halutz Watch
Israelis seem quite certain that their military chief of staff, Dan Halutz, has a thing or two to learn about managing a war — but, according to media reports, it turns out he knows how to manage his stocks during a war: As the country’s political and military echelons met urgently to discuss the possible…
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Hagel On CNN
It’s hard to find a senator in either party more willing to challenge the Bush administration’s approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict than Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel. Here’s what he had to say Sunday on CNN: Well, I think sustained U.S. diplomatic efforts has been missing in the Middle East, specifically focused on the Israeli/Palestinian issue….
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GOP: Joe Might Get It
White House press secretary Tony Snow, at today’sbriefing when asked if the president is supporting Joe Lieberman’s GOP challenger: “The President supports the democratic process in the state of Connecticut, and wishes them a successful election in November.” And, according to this interview with Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee is also refraining from endorsing…
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Feingold: Joe Doesn’t Get It
Senator Russ Feingold’s backing of Ned Lamont appears to be anything but perfunctory.” Joe is showing … he doesn’t get it,” Feingold said on ABC’s This Week. (Click here for more.)
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One Memphis Resident Who’s Taking Her Name Off Emily’s List
Last week in our [pages][1], we reported on an historic campaign win by Memphis politician Steve Cohen, who is now the Democratic nominee for Congress from Tennessee’s ninth district. Cohen, a longtime Tennessee state senator, is the first white candidate in three decades to win the backing of the Democratic voters in the ninth district,…
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Lamont Wants Apology
In the “I’m not not sure it’s the best way to show everyone that Cheney is wrong about you being a sissy” department … Ned Lamont says he wants Joe Lieberman to apologize for accusing Lamont supporters of hacking the Lieberman campaign site. (To be fair, Camp Lieberman looked pretty silly on election night with…
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