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Archive for April, 2008

  • More on the Likudist Fronts
    Monday, April 21st, 2008

    Just to add a little to last month’s post, “Is the Pentagon Policy Shop Funding Likudist Fronts?”, on Devon Gaffney Cross’ London-based Policy Forum for International Security Affairs, Jeffrey Gedmin’s (?) Case for Freedom, and Anatol Sharansky’s OneJerusalem.org, all of which appear to have as a common denominator — and a common, Israel-based IP address [...]

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  • More on J Street
    Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

    For those interested in more about J Street, the new lobby group I wrote about Tuesday, I highly recommend an oped published in Forward.com by the new group’s director, Jeremy Ben-Ami, entitled ‘For Israel’s Sake, Moderate American Jews Must Find Their Voice.’

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  • The Battle for McCain
    Thursday, April 10th, 2008

    (I apologize for not having posted in some three weeks. A trip to China, followed by various technical glitches that made it impossible to save postings, are mostly responsible.)
    Thursday’s New York Times has a useful front-page feature entitled “Foreign Policy: 2 Camps Seek McCain’s Ear” which confirms the existence of a struggle between realists, on [...]

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