Category: Foreign Policy
For USA Today, Illegal Settlements Are a Matter of Opinion
by Peter Hart | Feb 9, 2014 | Economy, Foreign PolicyThe football game part of the Super Bowl was a non-event, but there was serious controversy over one of the commercials: Actress Scarlett Johansson was appearing in an ad for SodaStream, a maker of carbonated beverage dispensers whose main factory is in the West Bank, Palestinian territory that has been occupied by Israel since 1967. […]
When Obama Beat the Lobby
by M.J. Rosenberg | Feb 7, 2014 | Foreign PolicyIt didn’t take much. Just the power of the presidency, the State of the Union, and the whole country watching. Plus the president’s will. And AIPAC’s entire campaign to destroy America’s chance to reach an agreement with Iran crumbled. Within hours, three senators announced they were no longer co-sponsoring AIPAC’s bill to kill the […]
If Hillary Doesn’t Back Obama on Iran
by M.J. Rosenberg | Jan 29, 2014 | Foreign PolicyThere can be little doubt that Hillary Clinton lost the 2008 nomination for president because she voted to authorize the Iraq War. If she had opposed it, there would have been no rationale for the Obama candidacy. It is likely that she, not President Obama, would now be in the White House. It seems crazy. […]
More Pressure on Bahrain
by Amanda Ufheil-Somers | Jan 10, 2014 | Foreign PolicySecretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was full of tough talk when he visited the island kingdom of Bahrain in early December. The United States, he vowed, will continue to guard “the free flow of energy and commerce” from the Persian Gulf and keep Iran nuclear-free, through the presence of 35,000 U.S. military personnel or […]
Two States of Denial
by M.J. Rosenberg | Jan 3, 2014 | Foreign PolicyI had a good laugh when I saw The New York Times story last week with the headline: “Members of Jewish Student Group Test Permissible Discussion On Israel.” The piece told of the decision by the Hillel Jewish student society at Swarthmore College to break with the national organization over its ban on discussions of […]
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