http://www.wikio.co.uk/blog/search/Robert Malley Wikio Blogs - search: Robert Malley wikio wikio http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68348618 From 21 Aug 2008 - 24 Aug 2008 the European PGA Tour is Zandvoort in the Netherlands The KLM Open is being played at the Kennemer Golf & Country Club. Here are some golfers to look out for: Justin Rose, 8.00am tee 10, Rose who was a bit of a surprise entry this week is looking [...] Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:06:42 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68348618 Keith Bond 2008-08-20T12:06:42Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67571215 The Press is all agog, Republicans for Obama, like organizations like this don't pop up in every presidential election. But Most of Obama's new Republican friends will fit right in with the rest of his crew, people like Robert Malley, Samantha Power, Zbigniew Brzezinski, his new buddies are anti-Israel. I don't understand what it is with this guy, he claims to be a friend of Israel but everyone he attracts is of dubious middle east credentials. This isn't guilt by association...its guilt by mob rule. My friend Ed Lasky picks up the story: Obama's GOP roster share anti-Israel viewsEd LaskyBarack Obama claims that he is a post-partisan politician and promises he will work well with Republicans. This is contrary to his history in the Senate to date and also flies in the face of the National Journal, which found him to be the most liberal member of the Senate. In any case, he does try to sprinkle a few Republicans about him to burnish his credibility -- which these days needs a lot of burnishing. In any case, there also seems to be a common theme among the Republicans that support Barack Obama: they have anti-Israel views. The New York Sun earlier this year noted that Obama expressed a desire to bring Senators Chuck Hagel and Dick Lugar on board should he become President. The Sun editorialized that this was disheartening since these two Senators were known for their problematic attitudes towards the American-Israel relationship. Today, the Obama campaign announced a new group of Republicans who support his candidacy. This morning, former Iowa Republican Congressman Jim Leach, former Rhode Island Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee, and prominent lawyer and former White House intelligence advisor Rita E. Hauser will host a conference call to endorse Senator Barack Obama and announce the formation of Republicans for Obama. The theme continues: these Republicans -- with the exception of Jim Leach -- also are very cool towards the American-Israel relationship. Lincoln Chafee has a long history of being one of the least supportive Senators of the American-Israel relationship, and having lost the most recent election, is now teaching students international affairs at Brown University.He also has a history of expressing views that are certainly not warm towards our embattled ally. Rita Hauser is a fierce critic of Israel; an activist who tours the country promoting anti-Israel views. Again, from the New York Sun: A professor coming to Columbia University this fall to head up a Middle East studies institute has said that killing armed Israelis is legitimate Palestinian "resistance" to occupation. The money Columbia is using to pay the professor comes in part from Rita Hauser, a high-profile New York philanthropist whose former law firm was a registered agent of the Palestinian Authority. Also contributing was a foundation with close ties to Saudi Arabia. Rashid Khalidi, a professor of history and Near Eastern languages and civilizations and director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago, is set to move to Columbia University this fall, where he will teach as the Edward Said professor of Middle Eastern studies, a new - and supposedly anonymously funded - position at the school. He will also direct the school's Middle East Institute. The New York Sun has obtained an audio recording of a speech Mr. Khalidi gave on June 7, 2002, at a conference of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. While condemning violence against innocent civilians, which Mr. Khalidi said "means condemning Israel,"he appeared to condone the killing of armed Israelis in the next breath. "...Killing civilians is a war crime. It's a violation of international law.They are not soldiers. They're civilians, they're unarmed. The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that's different.That's resistance," Mr. Khalidi said. Professor Khalidi is a close friend of Barack Obama from their days together in Chicago. Their families socialized; as a director of the Woods Foundation, Barack Obama granted money to Khalidi's wife's anti-Israel group. Khalidi was one of the allies of Palestinians who saw a friend in Barack Obama, as the Los Angeles Times wrote in a trailblazing article earlier this year . Obama credited Khalidi with influencing his own views. There is more. Hauser is the Chairwoman of the Advisory Board of the International Crisis Group. This is the Soros-funded group which was praised by Soros at a ceremony during which they gave him a Founders Award for their work on the Palestinian question. The International Crisis Group seems to be a congenial environment for anti-Israel foreign policy experts. These include experts who are close to Barack Obama: Robert Malley, Samantha Power, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Now we can add Rita Hauser. Update -- Patrick Casey reminds us Chafee already quit the GOP: Chafee quit the Republican Party in 2007, as this story in the 9/16/07 Providence Journal tells us: Chafee quietly quits the GOP Pretty cowardly thing to do, especially since it came just a few months after the Republican Party spent millions supporting him in his re-election effort. I've always thought that with his disaffiliation, he essentially admitted that he stole that money from the national GOP. I wonder when he's planning to return it? I guess it's possible that Chafee joined the GOP again, but I can't find it. Even the Watson Institute at Brown (where Chafee teaches) still has a story up applauding Chafee's move. Please email me at yidwithlid@aol.com to be put onto my mailing list.Feel free to reproduce any article but please link back to http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:11:23 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67571215 yidwithlid 2008-08-13T03:11:23Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66868451 Obama should convince the American public that he's not setting up a zero sum game between Muslims on one side and Christians and Jews on the other. Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:48:53 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66868451 Steve Clemons 2008-08-06T16:48:53Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65899783 You gotta give props where props are due. This time the Republican National Commitee hit it out of the park with BarackBook, a parody of FaceBook’s Obama pages. All of Obama’s favorite buds can be found in his “FriendFeed”, which includes links to pages for Marilyn Katz, William Ayers, Antoin “Tony” Rezko (who is now friends [...] Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:32:14 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65899783 bmerry7 2008-07-29T11:32:14Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65422569 Larsen, Sotunde and Wychulis Join Company VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., July 24, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE: ) today announced the appointment of three senior executives to key management positions within the Company: Steven B. Larsen has been named Senior Vice President for State Government Relations; Tunde Sotunde, M.D., has been named Chief Executive Officer of AMERIGROUP Community Care of Georgia; and Robert A. Wychulis has been named Chief Executive Officer of AMERIGROUP Community Care of New York. "Steve Larsen, Dr. Tunde Sotunde and Bob Wychulis are all accomplished professionals who bring to AMERIGROUP deep knowledge of government, medicine and business," said James G. Carlson, AMERIGROUP Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Separately, they have distinguished themselves in working to make our healthcare system better serve all of us. Together, they will help our Company work more effectively with our government partners as we bring healthcare to our country's most vulnerable citizens." Larsen has a long background of public service in the State of Maryland, having served in senior positions with three Maryland governors, and most recently was appointed by Governor Martin O'Malley to serve as Chairman of the Maryland Public Service Commission, the State's chief utility regulator. Under Governor Parris Glendening, Larsen initially served as Chief Lobbyist. For six years, from 1997 through 2003, he served as State Insurance Commissioner. In each of these positions, he established a track record of vigorous advocacy on behalf of Maryland's consumers and the public, and in 2003 he received the Distinguished Public Service Award from the Maryland Hospital Association. For more than two years, from 2004 through 2007, Larsen held a series of senior positions with AMERIGROUP, including Executive Vice President, Health Plan Operations and Chief Executive Officer of AMERIGROUP in Maryland. Larsen, an attorney who also has worked in pr Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:01:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65422569 2008-07-24T20:01:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=64769257 Gov. Martin O'Malley Friday said Maryland authorities will no longer spy on political issue groups if there is no evidence of wrongdoing.... Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:27:01 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=64769257 2008-07-19T08:27:01Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=64129049 Here are excerpts from a significant position paper written by a group of academics, diplomats, and politicos, among them Robert Malley, Ambassador Edward Walker, and Thomas Dine (former executive director of AIPAC). For nearly 60 years the United States has tried to encourage peace and reconciliation between Israel and all of its neighbors. Only recently [...] Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:25:07 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=64129049 Qifa Nabki 2008-07-14T15:25:07Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=63750845 Random Fandom Red Sox NYC O'Malley tries to get clearances to build Atlantic Yards. Robert Moses found ways to block this. link NoLandGrab: Moses blocked it, alright, but we're pretty sure Walter O'Malley never uttered the name "Atlantic Yards." That moniker is purely a Bruce Ratner marketing invention. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:07:51 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=63750845 eric 2008-07-10T20:07:51Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=63488307 but he has a great article on Barak Obama here. …A prime minister must be “a good butcher,” H.H. Asquith told Winston Churchill on naming him First Lord of the Admiralty, “and there are several who need to be pole-axed now.” Four years later, Asquith would pole-axe Churchill over the Dardanelles disaster. Obama is not lacking [...] Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:29:28 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=63488307 Bloodthirsty Liberal 2008-07-08T21:29:28Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=62903962 The pictures probably tell the story better than anything else as to how uplifting and inspiring the Hollywood Bowl's salute to the Dodgers/annual Fourth of July show came off Wednesday night. Dodger fans were there to be seen and... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:32:42 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=62903962 Tom Hoffarth 2008-07-03T13:32:42Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=62134350 Nick Nichols has moved from Gundersen Lutheran to work on sustainability issues for La Crosse County. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:39:26 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=62134350 2008-06-27T04:39:26Z