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Why did Leon Panetta visit the Middle East?

Last week, CIA chief Leon Panetta apparently made a quiet trip to Jerusalem and Cairo . While there, news reports indicate Panetta met Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, defense minister Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, Israeli...

Published 8 Feb 2010 3:33 PM by Neal Ungerleider

Filed under: jerusalem, US, Congress, yemen [Edit Tags]
Congress: selling out on American values for politics

One year ago, I watched election results coming in for Virginia's Fifth Congressional District, where my friend and colleague Tom Perriello was challenging incumbent Virgil Goode, Jr. CNN kept flipping the winner because the vote was close. Finally...

Published 25 Nov 2009 12:05 PM by Adam Shapiro

Filed under: goldstone report, Congress [Edit Tags]
WATCH: House blocks access to Goldstone report

On November 4, the House of Representatives voted 344-36 (22 voted present) in favor of a resolution condemning the Goldstone Report, which chronicled the war crimes committed during last year's Gaza war. Not only that, in a break with normal procedure...

Published 12 Nov 2009 5:13 PM by MJ Rosenberg

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Senate and House doves attend Israeli settler pep rally on Capitol Hill

What a strange coincidence. On the very day the House was voting on the anti-Goldstone resolution, a far-right Israel group was meeting on the Hill to discuss how "to protect the rights of Jews to live in designated areas in Judea and Samaria (the...

Published 5 Nov 2009 6:35 PM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: settlements, goldstone report, J street, Congress [Edit Tags]
A know-nothing Congress on the Middle East

The Congress of the United States went out of its way this week to embarrass itself. At issue was a House resolution "calling on the President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the 'Report...

Published 5 Nov 2009 6:20 PM by John Nichols

Filed under: goldstone report, Congress, MJ Rosenberg [Edit Tags]
Rep. Ellison blasts Goldstone vote

By a 344-36 vote (22 voting "present"), the House of Representatives condemned the so-called Goldstone report, which found that both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in Gaza. (See how your representative voted here). The resolution basically...

Published 4 Nov 2009 5:52 PM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: gaza, goldstone report, J street, AIPAC, Congress, John Nichols [Edit Tags]

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Why did Leon Panetta visit the Middle East?

Congress: selling out on American values for politics

WATCH: House blocks access to Goldstone report

Senate and House doves attend Israeli settler pep rally on Capitol Hill

A know-nothing Congress on the Middle East

Rep. Ellison blasts Goldstone vote

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