Two weeks ago nearly half of Israeli voters said they were either undecided or open to changing their minds. Today Benjamin …
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Political Pictures of the Week, July 27 – Aug. 3
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
The Man Behind Romney’s Israel Trip
Under real-world rules, Dan Senor should not be anywhere near Mitt Romney‘s foreign policy inner circle. This is the man who, as spokesman for the disastrous Bush Administration reconstruction effort in Iraq, told a group of reporters, according to Imperial Life in the Emerald City by the Washington Post‘s Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Off …
Romney’s Israel Stop: Keeping Up Appearances
Mitt Romney got in and out of Israel with what he’d hoped for: no gaffes, no real headlines. Nothing so substantial as to risk a clear view of the image he had traveled halfway around the world to produce: footage of a U.S. …
Mitt’s Mission in Israel: Optics, Christian Zionists and Absentee Ballots
There are a number of ways to understand Mitt Romney’s visit to Israel, where he pitches up Saturday night from London.
In the Holy Land, Romney to Court the Jewish Vote
Every four years, a Republican presidential candidate claims he can lure Jewish voters away from the Democratic Party. And every cycle, most of those voters stay put. Mitt Romney isn’t going to win the bulk of the Jewish vote …
U.S.-Israel Tension a Liability in Iran Talks
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his annual pilgrimage to Washington last year it was an unmitigated disaster. President Obama felt Netanyahu was lecturing him during the press appearance at the end of their …
Obama Courts AIPAC Before Netanyahu Meeting
What a difference a year makes. Last year when President Barack Obama stood before the crowd at the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference in Washington, he was on his heels, reeling from a week of …
In the Arena2012 Election
Sheldon Adelson: All Israel, All the Time
I recently made a private vow not to use the term Israel Firster again, for two reasons: it’s derogatory (and it was, initially, my vituperative response to being called “anti-Israel” by assorted neoconservative blowhards) and it’s inaccurate — most of those who are, I believe, unduly aggressive about Israel’s national security think …
Articles of Faith: Is Obama Really Losing His Jewish Support?
Tell me where you’ve heard this before: Jewish voters are unhappy with Barack Obama. He’s seen as insufficiently supportive of Israel. There are questions about whether he can win enough Jewish votes to carry key states.
If you guessed “during the 2008 Democratic primaries,” then ding, ding, ding! A loaf of raisin-studded challah for …
Weiner Tells Democratic Leadership He Will Resign
Rep. Anthony Weiner called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Steve Israel Wednesday night to inform them that he will be resigning from Congress. The last month has seen Weiner tweet a lewd picture to a 21-year-old …
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Borderline Personalities
There are continuing ruffles and trifles about whether President Obama said anything at all different about the borders of a Palestinian state. Much of it is either meta-talmudic picky (Glenn Kessler in the Washington Post) or poisonously disingenuous (the ever-bilious Charles Krauthammer). Kessler’s gripe is that Obama is the first …
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Armageddon Blues
Convinced that the world was coming to an end on May 21, my wife and I decided to spend our last days–before being engulfed in the eternal fire–in Italy last week. Imagine my disappointment that the Lord’s smite schedule was …
