Drawing Congress into the Iran nuclear debate is the last thing the White House wants.
Plainly, there is no guiding hand dictating choices across the board.
While we recognize the Republican Jewish Coalition is hardly a non-partisan outfit, a snippet from a statement the group released is worthy of note:
His general openness to using government to better people’s lives extended to religious Jews.
There are so many national issues that have to be addressed that it isn’t just policing, as I think we all well know....”
Also left unsaid was the fact that the menorah and its oil were in the Beit HaMikdash, which of course was located on Har HaBayit – the Temple Mount that present-day Muslims claim as their own.
No one would deny that the program subjected detainees to less than pleasant treatment, but the salient point is, for what purpose?
For the past six years President Obama has consistently deplored all Palestinian efforts to end-run negotiations in search of a UN-imposed agreement on Israel.
The fundamental principle in play, however, is statistical dynamics, not race.
The problem was put into sharper focus with reports that Israeli jets had bombed areas adjacent to the Damascus international airport as well as a town near the border with Lebanon.
Mr. Obama repeatedly assured those skeptical about the worth of negotiations that a military option remained on the table despite the continuing diplomatic efforts.
Are Rev. Sharpton and President Obama saying that no non-biased person could have come to the same conclusion as the grand jury?
Because of the disparate nature of the perpetrators, who are also relatively young, and given the lack of more traditional targets and the reverence Palestinians have for their homes, one now hears talk of Israel returning to a policy of destroying the houses of terrorists’ families.
In any event, the Constitution gives Congress what is popularly described as the “power of the purse” – that is, the power to raise revenues through taxation and to decide how the money should be sent.