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Loving Israel by Hating Obama

Bradley Burston | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

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Bradley Burston

It's become a fashion, here and abroad: Jews who are convinced that they love Israel more than the rest of us have told anyone who would listen that one way to express love of the Jewish state is to revile Barack Obama.

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Obama's State of the Union With the Muslim World

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

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Firas Al-Atraqchi

For the first time in nearly two decades, the US has the upper hand in the Middle East.

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Taking Our Seat at the Table

Aram Khayatpour | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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Aram Khayatpour

After having to deal with the idiotic thugs of the last 8 years who wielded military might as if they were overcompensating for their own insecurities, we now have a president who seems to get it.

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Obama's Coup in Cairo

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

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John Wellington Ennis

Short-sighted greedy goals end up causing long-term world problems. If Iran was not alienated from Western nations, how different would our geo-political world look today?

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The President's Cairo Speech: Does Israel Need Obama's Tough Love?

Lanny Davis | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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Lanny Davis

Many American Jews and Israelis feel strongly that Mr. Obama should better understand that such public scolding of Israel will only strengthen the hardliners of Israeli (and Arab) politics.

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America's Sorry Policy

John Feffer | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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John Feffer

Don't hold your breath waiting for a mea culpa from the 43rd president. Instead, it's left to Barack Obama to come to terms with the Bush legacy.

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Obama's Cairo Trip: The Unreported Details in Context

Mohamed Elshahed | Posted 07.10.2009 | Eyes & Ears

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Mohamed Elshahed

President Obama's speech was well-received on the Egyptian street, but retracing the President's path through "the timeless city of Cairo" quickly reveals that change will be hard to come by.

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Barack Obama and Islam

John L. Esposito | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

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John L. Esposito

Muslims' major grievance against the West is what they identify as the denigration of Islam and Muslims and how they are seen by the West as inferior and not of equal value.

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Remembering America: Obama's D-Day Speech and Two Days in June

William Bradley | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

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William Bradley

On Thursday in Cairo, Obama gave his rhetorical best to reposition a mostly peaceful America in the future of the Muslim world. On Saturday in Normandy, he reminded of America's glittering past.

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The Speech Obama Didn't Give to the Muslim World

Anis Shivani | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

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Anis Shivani

The very idea of a speech addressed to more than a billion diverse people, with different grievances against America, seems ludicrous. My advisers ha...

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Egyptian Commentator: "We Should Not Be Talking Directly To Our Enemies"

Mohamed Elshahed | Posted 07.09.2009 | Eyes & Ears

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Mohamed Elshahed

Viewers unanimously came to the defense of the American President and called the columnist things that ranged from "ignorant" to "victim who is afraid of help when it comes."

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Egyptian Commentator: "We Shouldn't Be Talking Directly With Our Enemy"

Mohamed Elshahed | Posted 07.09.2009 | Eyes & Ears

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Mohamed Elshahed

By Sunday morning and after watching talk show political pundits spill their views on the speech it was clear, Egyptians are in love with President Barrack Obama.

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Obama Dubbed "The Heir of Antar" As Reactions To His Cairo Speech Continue

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

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Faisal J. Abbas

If there was a "reaction of the week" award, then it should go without any hesitation to popular Iraqi poet, Abbas Chechan.

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Jason Linkins

Michael Ware, Marc Thiessen Debate Whether Cairo Speech "Undercut" U.S. Troops (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

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Via, Crooks And Liars. Last week, Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen and CNN war correspondent Michael Ware "debated" whether or not President Barack Oba...

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Obama in Cairo: One View From Jerusalem

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 07.07.2009 | World

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Ilana Teitelbaum

An American friend emailed me to ask "What's Israel's/your take on Obama's remarks in Cairo?" I had to smile, because if there is one thing that has...

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The Student of History Needs to Go to Summer School

Mark Levine | Posted 07.07.2009 | World

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Mark Levine

For all its well-intentioned rhetoric, President Obama's speech was, sadly, conceptually flawed, empirically challenged, and politically blind to the daily realities that drive hundreds of millions of Muslims to increasing despair.

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Friday Talking Points [80] -- Parsing Obama's Cairo Speech

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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Chris Weigant

This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.

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Obama's Call for Educating Women

David Gartner | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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David Gartner

Education, especially for girls and women, is the most highly leveraged investment now available for developing countries.

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Jason Linkins

PANIC! Missouri Congressman Warns Of Imminent Nuclear Threat To Seattle (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.06.2009 | Media

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CORRECTION: The headline of this post originally said Akin was from Alabama. ARGH, he is from Missouri. I don't know why I said he was from Alabama....

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Obama In Paris, Will Meet Michelle And Kids

AP | MARK S. SMITH | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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WEIMAR, Germany — President Barack Obama absorbed the stark horrors memorialized at the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday and said the lesson...

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Pakistan's Refugee Crisis

Queen Noor of Jordan | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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Queen Noor of Jordan

Yesterday in Cairo, President Obama eloquently underscored the importance of human security. A major challenge to the world's capacity to care for its citizens is taking place right now in Pakistan.

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Obama Arrives In Paris After Visiting Germany

AP | MARK S. SMITH | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

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WEIMAR, Germany — President Barack Obama absorbed the stark horrors memorialized at the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday and said the lesson...

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : Obama and the Muslim World Facts: US President Barack Obama completed his much-anticipated trip to the Mid...

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Obama's Challenge to the Muslim World

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

Muslims now have the leader of the most powerful nation on earth agreeing with them and seeking their help.

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Obama in Cairo: The Immutable Sapience of the Good Book(s)

Lionel | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living

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Lionel

I laugh not at the concept and notion of religion or the Bible. I laugh at how anything is susceptible to misinterpretation and how the easily-swayed inspire the most dreadful of behaviors.

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