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Opinion Genocide, Lies & Video: Sliming Samantha Power
Even in a political culture as poisonous as ours is of late, there’s still something deeply disturbing about the perverse dishonesty of the right-wing attacks on Samantha Power, President Obama’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations. There are so many layers of bad faith at work here that it’s hard to know where to…
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Israel News Samantha Power Wins Key Pro-Israel Endorsements for U.N. Post
Some Republicans may view the choice of Samantha Power for ambassador to the United Nations a chance to replay the divisive Chuck Hagel nomination process, in which they tried to drive a wedge between the White House and pro-Israel advocates. It may not be that simple this time round, as Power has successfully defused some…
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Opinion Samantha Power Already Faces Knives Out From Some on Israel
The knives are already out. Samantha Power, it is alleged, is an enemy of Israel — this based on comments she made in response to a “thought experiment,” comments she subsequently disavowed. Power was asked, back in 2002, how her support for liberal interventionism to defend human rights abroad might be applied to a situation…
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Breaking News Susan Rice Brings Experience Defending Israel to National Security Job
Susan Rice has said that a “huge” portion of her work at the United Nations was defending Israel’s legitimacy. Her new job will likely be no less Israel-centric. President Obama plans Wednesday to name Rice his national security adviser and replace her at the U.N. with Samantha Power, one of his top White House advisers….
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Breaking News Samantha Power, Sometimes Blunt, May Face Confirmation Battle for U.N. Job
President Barack Obama has selected as his nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and academic who in 2008 called Hillary Clinton – at the time a political rival of Obama – “a monster.” The White House is due to name Samantha Power to replace current ambassador Susan Rice, who…
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Breaking News Samantha Power Gets Nod as U.N. Ambassador
President Barack Obama plans to nominate Samantha Power, a former White House aide and Harvard professor, to replace Susan Rice as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the White House said on Wednesday. The move comes as Obama shifts his foreign policy team to include Rice as his national security adviser amid the resignation of…
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Breaking News Israeli and Palestinian Tech Entrepreneurs Work Together
At first glance, it is a tech utopian’s dream. For the last two years several dozen Israeli and Palestinian high-tech entrepreneurs have been quietly meeting at a Dead Sea resort that Palestinians can visit without receiving permits from the Israeli military. Funded by the American high-tech giant Cisco Systems, the meetings feature little talk of…
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Opinion Real Winner of War on Terror: Osama Bin Laden
President Obama’s big May 23 policy speech on terrorism was one for the history books, but not for the reason you think. It was one of those rare moments in the life of a nation when people rise to debate their future and we discover that everyone — but everyone — is full of baloney….
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