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The Steve Simon call

The Washington Post’s left and right columnists are having a grand old time mixing it up over a call that Steve Simon, the White House go-to guy on Israel, had last Friday with the Jewish leadership. I heard the call. To put it gently, Greg Sargent, the Plum Line, or “left” columnist, has it right. […]

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Comings & Goings

* Efraim Karsh was appointed director of the Middle East Forum on June 7. Daniel Pipes, the forum’s founder and director from the start, assumed the new position of president, a full-time job. * James Besser, long-time Washington correspondent for the New York Jewish Week, will retire on June 21. * The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg […]

Former Alaska lawmaker responds to ‘bird-nose’ comment in Palin emails

The 24,000 pages of emails from Sarah Palin’s first year and a half as governor released Friday did not yield any major bombshells, but a former Alaskan lawmaker hit back at Palin’s use of the term “bird-nose” to describe him in correspondence with her staff: From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) To: Frye, Ivy J […]

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The dangers of recognizing Palestine

Yale and the anti-Semitism initiative

Live blogging the GOP New Hampshire debate

Those 1967 lines

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