Tag Archives: Israel

Obama in Egypt

By Joe Weber | Published: June 4, 2009
1. President Obama’s Speech from Cario - It takes guts to firmly (but gently) call attention to an elephant in any room.  But when it’s a herd of elephants, and the “room” is relations between the middle east, Islam, and the West… and you’re doing it in Egypt… that takes some serious groin dumplings.  One [...]
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Obama to get tough with Israel

By Joe Weber | Published: May 6, 2009
1. Israel MIGHT be pushing it – President Obama starts to lay the groundwork for getting Israel to back off a bit on Netanyahu’s right wing hawkish stance.  VP Biden is the first messenger and tells a powerful pro-Israel lobby group that:   “Israel has to work toward a two-state solution…” and let them all know [...]
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Waterboarding, Waterboarding, Everywhere

By Joe Weber | Published: April 20, 2009
1. CIA waterboarded two Al-Qaeda types 266 times - That’s… Wow that’s a lot.  (From the NY Times) 2. Ahmadinejad knows how bomb on stage – Claims Israel is the world’s most “cruel and racist regime”… at a U.N. racism conference.  Bunch of diplomats walk out.  (From the Wall Street Journal) 3. Columbine, 10 years later.  What happened, [...]
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By Joe Weber | Published: February 16, 2009
1. President Obama is in a Good mood? - But why?  Also, don’t think he doesn’t know of all the historical economic models (Japan in the 90s, Sweden Nationalizing their banks) that can be applied to our current financial crisis.  (From the New Republic) 2. Israel’s Livni willing to “give up half of the Land of [...]
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Israel Election still up in the air

By Joe Weber | Published: February 11, 2009
1. Israel Election still a toss up And so is the future of peace in the region. (From Time.com) 2. Does the Senate even know what the hell they’re doing on their taxes? Politico tries to ask every Senator if they ever screwed up on their taxes. (From, believe it or not… Politico) 3. Ebola’s first cousin makes [...]
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By Joe Weber | Published: February 10, 2009
1. Stimulus Passes Senate Still just three Republicans on board.  Dems say it ain’t big enough.  GOPers say it’s way too big.  Hot damn I like the sounds of this already!  Time to merge this one with the one in the House. (From Politico) 2. Netanyahu is back? Exit polls say otherwise.  He’s more of a hawk than his [...]
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