Barack Obama
May 24 2011, Marco Villa

Israel is worried. Or, more accurately, the Israeli Likud right is worried over the prospect of a second term for U.S. President Barack Obama.

After the Democrats’ defeat in the mid-terms and Obama’s weakening poll numbers, Israel’s primer...

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President Obama is accused within some quarters of the American Jewish community of being cold if not hostile toward the state of Israel. On the page, the assertion...
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Any hope that the capture and killing of Ussama bin Laden would herald the end of the interminable Afghanistan war has been quietly dashed. Instead the Obama...
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Occasionally, even though it has been apparent for so long you’d think you’d be used to it by now, one still has to stand back and appreciate such how...
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Conservatives will never tire of seeking to undermine the legitimacy of President Obama. In that regard, I am not sympathetic to Obama’s own indignity but to...
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Donald Trump (whose, as one comedian notes, birth certificate shows that he was born with his head up his ass) boasted immodestly that he was very, very proud of...
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I had wanted to avoid Donald Trump by all means. I did not want google to ever connect my name to his. There is nothing as crass as a rich man blabbing about being...
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For the so-called leader of the free world, President Obama has been noticeably weak and timid in endorsing democratic movements in the Arab world. Obama, it should...
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US president says the Egyptian government has yet to put forward a ‘credible, concrete and unequivocal path to democracy’ after President Hosni Mubarak...
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Can the liberal honeymoon with Obama suspend the naive belief that Obama really cares about genuine change? As if the liberal dream is under the aegis of Obama only to...
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In a symbolic move, the GOP-controlled House of Representatives voted to repeal President’s Obama health care reform act. The Republican vote was unanimous. The...
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Jonathan Pollard is an infamous spy in America, but widely loved and a cause célèbre on the Israeli right. While working for a series of American federal defense...
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First of all, how cool would it be to be governor of Hawaii? A small laid-back island state paradise. ‘Governor your five o’clock is ready.’ ‘O...
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For the third consecutive year, President Barack Obama remains the most admired man in the world. The 44th President of the United States defeated the likes of Glenn...
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Lum/Pool Obama arrives in Hawaii for a little down time. Many marked the decline of the Obama presidency with the Republican mid-term conquest of the House of...
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If the story of the 2008 presidential election between John McCain and Barack Obama were a novel, this is how a novelist would have ended it. …And Obama flew to...
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US President Barack Obama has struck a deal with Republican leaders last week. As per the deal tax cuts would be extended across the board including, controversially,...
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Barack Obama to report sufficient progress in halting Taliban momentum to allow small-scale pullout of US troops in July.
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During the 2008 campaign, Obama’s Muslim heritage was played up in much of the Arab press. The fact that Obama had a Muslim father, and a Muslim side of the...
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The fact that much of the hostility against Obama is pure racism under the veneer of some pretext like “debt” and “health care” isn’t...
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What in the fuck has Obama done so far? That is the title of one of the funniest websites I’ve seen in a while. President Obama has been in office for nearly two...
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President Barack Obama was hurt Friday morning while playing basketball with friends and family. The president received 12 stitches on his lips. Now that is a...
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Republicans and other neo-con zealots constantly attack Obama in the most wanton manner as an “appeaser” of Iran because he hasn’t [yet?] commenced...
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This is, after all, Texas where the execute retard people and minors so it’s best to have a sense of perspective. But recently in America there has been the...
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President Obama looks a little akin to a ‘broken man’ in recent days. The restrained president inherited the worst slate one could ever get: an economy on...
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The Republicans are in power right now and Israel’s prime minister “Bib” Netanyahu could not be more ... not happy, but - let’s say - he’s...
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The results of today’s midterm elections are beginning to tickle in. There are no surprises yet. But there are bound to be a few. By the end of the day, Republicans...
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Sarah Palin wants to run for president, well kind of, well maybe, but only if the nation is desperate for her visionary leadership. Whenever approached with the...
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Next Tuesday is expected to be a wash for the Democrats. Triumphant in ‘08, the party has fallen from grace. In a way it is not fair. President Obama inherited...
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The Tea Party is racist. Let’s stop pussyfooting around and call a spade a spade. Where was the anger over spending and deficits and debt during the Bush years?...
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The so-called “peace process” is almost exclusively spoken about in the United States with references to “Israel’s security.” American...
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A solar curse? Unfavorable comparisons between President Barack Obama and former President Jimmy Carter have been circulating amongst the right-wing for some time...
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I always find it interesting when the proverbial ‘pot calls the kettle black’, especially when the person criticizing another is far worse than the person...
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President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for new ways to tackle global poverty and said his administration would focus its help to the poor on promoting economic...
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Israel is seeking the release of an American jailed for life for spying for the Jewish state in return for concessions in the renewed peace process with the...
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India and the United States are likely to sign a 3.5-billion-dollar defence deal, the biggest ever between the two countries, a report said Wednesday. The agreement...
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In a town hall discussion broadcast live on CNBC Monday, President Barack Obama said the country’s economy is “moving in the right direction” —...
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A state-run newspaper on Friday defended a decision to publish a doctored photograph putting Egypt’s president front and center at Mideast peace talks in...
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I guess it’s not just celebrities and actors who have huge egos, politicians do as well. Not that any one with an ounce of fame really has any control over what...
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders are to hold further talks in Jerusalem, a day after discussing the core issues behind the conflict at meetings in Egypt. US Middle East...
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