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Middle East

Cold Desert Nights

Is the Obama administration putting the U.S.-Saudi relationship on ice?
By Lee Smith | 7:00 AM Jan 19, 2010

The Saudi Embassy is covered in snow, and U.S. Foreign Service officers on their lunch breaks in Foggy Bottom skid by and giggle. Washington is notoriously incapable of digging itself out from under, and almost a year into the Obama administration, it seems the Saudis are having the same problem. For years, the Saudis have ...

J Street Conference Ends

Cheers for Frank, Kovner, Abdullah; then go off to lobby
By Allison Hoffman | 10:00 AM Oct 28, 2009

Supporters of J Street, the left-leaning Israel lobby group that just wrapped up its first national conference, will exit the cozy confines of the Washington Grand Hyatt this morning and head over to Capitol Hill to, well, lobby. Policy director Hadar Susskind tells Tablet Magazine that the contingent has 210 meetings scheduled with various Congressional ...