President Bush made a point of going around the table and greeting each of us personally before the \”formal\” meeting began. But herein lies the curious part. There really was no formal meeting.
Write a factually sloppy, unfairly partisan polemic about a complex and sensitive issue and you get just what you\’d expect: controversy at every whistle stop, major face time with Larry King and a book that shoots up the best-seller list.
Bush launched a weeklong review of the Iraq Study Group\’s recommendations on Monday, starting with meetings with top State Department officials. Later in the week he was to have met with outside experts, top U.S. diplomats in the region and top military brass.
This summer, as Israel was under fire, the Jews of the world spoke together and stood together. It is well known that as Jews we band together in times of hardship. Never was that more true than during this past summer. Jews in Israel and around the world understood the stakes and made standing with Israel their first priority.
CUFI\’s purpose, according to its official brochure, is \”to provide a national association through which every pro-Israel church, parachurch organization, ministry or individual in America can speak and act with one voice in support of Israel in matters related to biblical issues.\”
Proponents of gay marriage were \”pursuing a deliberate plan of litigation and political pressure which will not only redefine marriage, but will follow from that to threaten the first freedom enshrined in the First Amendment — religious liberty,\” said Nathan Diament, the director of the Washington office of the Orthodox Union.
As a new party, Kadima has not yet organized an American support group, but Handelsman predicted the establishment of such an organization in the next two years.
Iran-Contra could make one believe that in Washington, D.C., it\’s not what you did, it\’s who you know. There was even an element of self-dealing on the part of the first President Bush, who set free insiders who would, as a result, never be tempted to disclose anything damaging about Bush\’s own record as vice president under Reagan.
During his nine-year tenure as Caltech president, 67-year old David Baltimore translated many of his family\’s principles into practice, on top of raising the university\’s already elite level of scientific research and education. He showed a keen interest in the quality of student life through improved housing and a multimillion dollar student activities fund, and raised the profile and number of women on the faculty and in the student body.
\”I would never have imagined that a Muslim, a president of Pakistan and, more than that, a man in uniform would ever get such a warm reception from the Jewish community,\” Musharraf said as he ascended the platform to excited applause.
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