Bush’s Arab world tour significant for Israel
With its focus on strengthening the moderate Arab coalition against Iran, President Bush\’s tour of the Persian Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia and Egypt could prove extremely significant for Israel.
With its focus on strengthening the moderate Arab coalition against Iran, President Bush\’s tour of the Persian Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia and Egypt could prove extremely significant for Israel.
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.
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.
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.
On May 23, 14 moderate Democrats and Republicans signed an agreement to invoke cloture, thereby ending filibusters, on three controversial Bush nominees: Janice Rogers Brown, William Pryor and Priscilla Owen.
\”There\’s been some small movement in the Jewish community toward the Republicans, but nothing really dramatic,\” said Stuart Rothenberg, an independent political analyst.
Almost nothing President Bush does during his about-to-begin second term will affect the American future as profoundly as his appointments to the courts.
President Bush one-upped John Kerry by uttering the word \”Israel\” in his speech Sept. 2 accepting the Republican presidential nomination, but it\’s unclear whether the simple mention of the Jewish state will have any effect on Jewish voters.
President Bush hugged a cantor, listened to an Orthodox high school choir, walked with an addict-turned-rabbi and heard success stories of the Jewish-based Beit T\’Shuvah addiction treatment center during his March 3 Southern California visit.