Obama Appoints Special Envoy to Middle East

by Eric on January 23, 2009

Obama and Vice President Biden stood to one side as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced new special emissaries on the most intractable national security problems — Richard C. Holbrooke for Afghanistan-Pakistan and George J. Mitchell for the Middle East — to an invited gathering of several hundred, including State Department officials. Just hours earlier, about 1,000 cheering civil service and Foreign Service employees had packed the building’s lobby to welcome her on her first day at work.

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Eric Eric is the founder and editor of IsraelSituation.com. He has been to Israel many times including a semester at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the former president of the Israel advocacy group at the University of Colorado and teaches about Israel and the Media at a local religious school.

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