Political tidbits: Jones for NSA, Rahm more of a dove?

By Eric Fingerhut November 21, 2008 7:43 pm

Retired Marine Gen. James Jones is the leading candidate to be Barack Obama’s national security adviser, reports ABC News and others.
Former AIPACer Steve Rosen, still awaiting trial, doesn’t appear to be a fan of Jones, calling him harshly critical of Israel and noting this article in Haaretz about a report he wrote taking Israel to task.
Obama has been getting advice from Bush I national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, whose realist foreign policy views make him unpopular in some pro-Israel circles.
Will a possibly more conservative Republican Party be able to attract Jews? The Jerusalem Post’s Hilary Leila Krieger talks to some political scientists about that.
Rahm Emanuel is more "dovish" on the Israeli-Palestinian issue than he has been portrayed, writes Nathan Guttman in the Forward.
A Mormon American Jewish Congress official who publicly backed Proposition 8 in California (the gay marriage ban) is getting heat from California Jews, reports the Forward.
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs congratulates Obama and looks forward to working with the president-elect to build a "nation where all people and communities are respected and strengthened."
It’s down to 136 votes between Al Franken and Norm Coleman in Minnesota, with almost half the ballots recounted.