Posts Tagged: white house
Samantha Power Named U.S. Ambassador to UN; Susan Rice New National Security Advisor
Huffington Post - A White House official says President Barack Obama will name former aide Samantha Power as the U.S. ambassador to the United...
MKs Urge Obama to Reconsider Decision to Not Address Knesset
MK Avi Wurtzman (Jewish Home) and Tzipi Hotoveli (Likud-Beiteinu) wrote to U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday to urge him to reconsider addressing the Knesset during...
Obama’s Call for “Peace in Our Time”: Some Aids to Reflection
In the context of his usual call for "engagement" (rather than war) with nations who harbor "suspicion and fear" of America, President Obama in his...
Hagel Performs Poorly in Accidental Press Conference
Politico - Chuck Hagel wandered into the lion's den Tuesday. Except for a single unusual interview with a home state newspaper, the former Republican...
Opinion: Hagel Nomination Sends Chilling Signal About Obama’s Second Term
In light of the opposition generated when former senator Chuck Hagel's candidacy for defense secretary was initially mooted, most analysts predicted - mistakenly ...
Does Chuck Hagel Have Enough Friends in the Senate?
Politico - Chuck Hagel probably never thought he'd have to win a popularity contest in the Senate. Maybe that's why he wasn't terribly careful about whom...
“Some of My Best Friends are Antisemites”: Obama Nominates Hagel
"Europe's leaders—and all leaders—should strongly oppose antisemitism, which poisons public debates over the future of the Middle East." -President George W....
Why I am Paranoid About Chuck Hagel
We Jews are paranoid about our survival as a people; sometime even the term paranoid is too weak. But can anyone seriously blame us...
Hageltopia: Hagel and His Original Ideas About the “Jewish Lobby”
There were plenty of good candidates to pick from for the post of next U.S. Secretary of Defense. For President Barack Obama, Chuck Hagel...
Recognizing Israel’s Vast Technology Successes
In 2004, Natan Sharansky's book, The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror - addressing the need for democracy to...
Killing Christians In Cairo
Many Christians believe that, upon learning that King Herod intended to massacre Jewish infants, the parents of the infant Jesus, Joseph and Mary, fled to Egypt, later...
The Pentagon’s On Fire: Amb. John Bolton Remembers 9/11
I arrived at the State Department early on September 11, my bags packed to fly to London that afternoon. I was to meet there...
Hizballah, Damascus Under Siege
Syrians have peacefully demonstrated for change in their country for nearly five months, only to be met with a murderous wave of terror from their...
Now, A Third Party Has a Chance To Win
About a year ago, whenever the name of President Obama came up, the near-universal word used by people I know who had worked hard...
