Peter Galbraith explains [2] Kurdish oil interests.
Afghan ambassador says US will send 40k troops [3]. Levin works compromise [4].
House Foreign Affairs Committee discussion paper [5] on foreign assistance reform.
Khamenei not dead [6].
McChrystal's long war [7].
Tom Shannon/Arturo Valenzuela confirmations still on hold [8] over Honduras.
Polish political ally [9] of Britain's Cameron was member of Latvia-Poland Waffen-SS.
Susan Rice to Israel, PA [10].
Israeli Ambassador reconsiders [11] J-Street invitation. Schumer/Gillibrand drop out [12].
New Israeli settlement construction [13].
Egypt FM threatens to boycott [14] Mediterranean summit.
National Security Advisor Jim Jones keynote speaker at American Task Force for Palestine Gala [15] last night. "President Obama is committed to achieve two states ... We must move beyond talking about talks..." Seen among guests: Congressman Robert Wexler, NSC Middle East strategist Dennis Ross, aide Ben Fishman, NSC Middle East senior director Dan Shapiro, Mitchell team's Jennifer Butte-Dahl, State senior advisor Vali Nasr, J Street's Jeremy Ben-Ami, UAE Ambassador Youssef al Otaiba; honored UMaryland's/Brookings' Shibley Telhami who recounted growing up in a home without running water and parents who valued learning and opened up their home to people of every faith, arriving in America at 18 with $150, broken English; Amb. Robert Pelletreau Jr. who launched US negotiations with the PLO in Tunis twenty years ago, his counterpart Abu Mazen; the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Fuad Jubran, Prof. Najat Arafat Khelil, founder of the Dialogue Project between American Jewish and Palestinian women. Emcee ATFP's Hussein Ibish.
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