Epstein Secrets

ewish state. When Truman assumed office in April 1945 after Franklin Roosevelt's death, he had little knowledge of Palestine and even less of what Roosevelt's policies in the region had been. What immediately concerned him was what to do about the Jewish refugees, the survivors of the Nazi's final solut

s allowed over 500,000 Jews to settle in Palestinian areas of Jerusalem and in the West Bank. The "underdogs," as Truman once put it in a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, are now acting like the "top dogs." Truman and the State Department were also worried that the attempt to create a Jewish state in an Arab-dominat

them full political rights, be able to label itself the Middle East's only true democracy. Relations with the United States (particularly with the Obama Administration) will inevitably suffer. How much? No one can say for sure, but that uncertainly alone should concern Israelis. The harsh criticism last week of Ke

iatus in Washington policymaking. Since Franklin Roosevelt, Presidents have lost an average of thirty House

s. The outcomes of Clinton's battles, including the government shutdown of 1995, weren't sorted out until after the 1996 Presidential election. An Obama Administration official told me, "The first year of Clinton's second term was the resolution of the climactic moments of his third year. I suspect a similar oppo

punishment as no free thinkers ever have. Teddy Roosevelt, the future president, wrote a biography in which

r Americans, not what is best for the Tea Party. Joining the chorus of people fed up with Republicans attempt to obstruct anything supported by the Obama Administration, whether it be the nomination of Chuck Hagel to providing disaster relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy to the continual manufacturing of self-impos