The Jewish Week

On the campaign trail, Republican supporters continue to hammer away at what they say is Obama’s naiveté on the subject, claiming he wants to “sit down and have dinner” with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

That’s a “red herring,” said Daniel Levy, director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative of the Century Foundation. “Substantively, the Bush administration has come closer to accepting the basic Obama position -- which is engagement.”

The same pressures that pushed the Bush administration to soften its policy of diplomatic isolation on Iran… more

A summit that spurred fears on the right of sweeping new Israeli concessions and hopes on the left of an end to the long negotiating impasse now looks more like a diplomatic set piece choreographed to launch arduous negotiations over a revived and revised Mideast road map.

And with less than two weeks to go, there are more questions than answers about the one-day meeting at Annapolis, MD...

This week there were heightened indications that the Bush administration is pushing hard for… more