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Eric Lynn’s new job

Eric Lynn, who joined up with Barack Obama early on in the presidential campaign to direct Jewish outreach, has a new position at the State Department. From Ben Smith at Politico: Eric Lynn, an Obama campaign aide on Mideast policy and his campaign’s Jewish liaison, has started work at the State Department as a senior […]

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Cohen: Two-state solution essential for Jewish state

With Bibi Netanyahu dithering about supporting a Palestinian state, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen argues that the two-state solition is critical to Israel’s survival as a Jewish state: The population of Arabs in the Holy Land, at about 5.4 million, will one day overtake the number of Jews. So a two-state solution is essential […]

Obama on Durban

At his press conference yesterday in Trinidad & Tobago before returning to the United States. President Obama took a question on the U.S. boycott of the Durban II conference, in which he said U.S. participation would have been "putting our imprimatur on something that we just don’t believe." Here’s the exchange: Q I’ll take that one. Mr. […]

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Holocaust museum opens in Skokie

Israel recalls ambassador to Switzerland

Obama defends decision to boycott Durban II

Shimon Peres slams Ahmadinejad invite

Why the Harman leaks smell to high heaven-UPDATE 2

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