This is a beginning. I’m hearing that Sec. Clinton will make a speech next week, probably on Friday the 9th after returning from the Prague signing of New START, in Sen. McConnell’s home state to urge ratification of the new nuclear arms-reduction treaty. Officials are pretty upbeat — way more than I’ve been — about [...]

Covered her speech here, here, here and here. Caught up with J Street for a response here. I don’t honestly know what I expected, as I wrote this morning. She had a deft moment where she reversed the typical construction on the right for why it’s bad for the U.S. to link the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [...]

For the first time since I’ve been in Washington, I’ve wanted to cover a speech made at the AIPAC annual conference. These are the first considered remarks made by the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government since the Biden Jerusalem Insult. What Secretary Clinton will say, and how Prime Minister Netanyahu will at-least-implicitly respond, will [...]

I’ll be at AIPAC’s conference on Monday to cover Secretary Clinton’s address, but I noticed something on the conference roster that reminded me of a point that may not have broken through the debate during this current U.S.-Israel discomfort. Here’s the lead-in for one of the panel sessions: Since becoming Israel’s prime minister last year, [...]

Secretary Clinton’s upcoming AIPAC speech is going to be a must-watch. Look at how she intensifies her rebuke to Prime Minister Netanyahu in this interview with Andrea Mitchell: QUESTION: …here you are with the Middle East just beginning to approach negotiations and Israel announces an expansion of settlements. It was really a slap in the [...]

Michael Cohen needs to pay closer attention: Jim Jones and Bob Gates are obviously smart men, but one doesn’t get the sense (particularly from the former) that they are focused on recalibrating US strategy. Indeed, one could fairly ask where are all the Obama campaign aides that were pushing the idea of a new mindset [...]