NYT’s Sanger Sure Gets It Wrong - US Did Sell Israel Bombs for Iran Attack
firedoglake.com 1/11/2009 — David Sanger has been a very busy chief Washington correspondent. His report on the “sheer scariness” of the insecurity of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal appears today in the New York Times Magazine , but he also had a major article in the paper ...

Thinking the no longer unthinkable
pajamasmedia.com 12/11/2008 — Fox News reports that Barack Obama is offering Israel an nuclear guaranty against Iranian attack, signalling that a nuclear Iran is inevitable. President-elect Barack Obama will offer Israel a strategic pact designed to fend off any nuclear attack on ...

New York Times Says U.S. rebuffed Israel on Strike Against Iran
powerlineblog.com 1/11/2009 — The New York Times is reporting that President Bush "deflected" a request by Israel last year for specialized bunker-busting bombs Israel wanted for an attack on Iran's main nuclear complex. Bush also flatly refused to grant Israel's request to fly ...

U.S. Nuclear Guarantee To Israel Makes No Sense
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 12/4/2008 — Our guest blogger is Peter Juul , a research associate at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. In a recent Brookings Institution report on Middle East strategy for the new administration, editors Richard Haass and Martin Indyk propose ...

Obama: Since We All Know That Engagement With Iran Won't Work, How About A US Nuclear Umbrella For Israel?
mererhetoric.com 12/19/2008 — Knowing How generous: U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's administration will offer Israel a "nuclear umbrella" against the threat of a nuclear attack by Iran, a well-placed American source said earlier this week. The source, who is close to the new ...

Going it alone?
israelmatzav.blogspot.com 12/4/2008 — The JPost is reporting on Thursday that the IDF is preparing to attack Iran on its own, with or without American support. "It is always better to coordinate," one top Defense Ministry official explained last week. "But we are also preparing options ...

Obama's atomic umbrella: U.S. nuclear strike if Iran nukes Israel - Haaretz - Israel News
haaretz.com 12/11/2008 — U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's administration will offer Israel a "nuclear umbrella" against the threat of a nuclear attack by Iran, a well-placed American source said earlier this week. The source, who is close to the new administration, said ...

The 'blogfather' of Iran
iht.com 11/24/2008 — Hossein Derakhshan, a former journalist, blatantly defied the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by visiting Israel and writing about it on his Farsi blog.

Shorter Benny Morris
sadlyno.com 1/1/2009 — Above: Slouching Towards the Samson Option Why Israel Feels Threatened Just because Israel’s paranoid doesn’t mean the wogs aren’t after her. Gotta finda way, a better way, better waaaay [MUSHROOM CLOUD EXPLOSION]  ...

Will Israel Attack Iran?
outsidethebeltway.com 4/18/2009 — There’s an article in the Times of London today claiming that Israel’s air force is on standby, just waiting for the order from Israel’s government before mounting an air assault against Iran’s nuclear development sites: The ...

Bush defends foreign policy in final legacy tour — Reuters: Politics 1/15/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday defended his foreign policy record -- from the unpopular war in Iraq to nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea -- in a farewell bid to polish his troubled legacy.

WSJ/NBC News Poll: Americans Side with Israel — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 1/15/2009
Susan Davis reports on politics. Nearly half of Americans believe the Palestinians are to blame for the recent outbreak of violence in the Middle East, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Wednesday evening.  ...

Hayden: al-Qaida boxed in, Iran near nuke decision (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/15/2009
AP - The CIA has hampered al-Qaida's free reign in the tribal region of western Pakistan, and Iran appears to be nearing a decision on whether to build a nuclear warhead, departing CIA chief Michael Hayden said Thursday.

UN assembly holds 'emergency' session on Gaza (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/15/2009
AP - The U.N. General Assembly president opened an emergency meeting of the 192-nation world body on Israeli actions in Gaza on Thursday by angrily blocking Israel's attempt to halt what it called a "hateful" session.

Israel controls access, message in Gaza assault (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/15/2009
AP - The Israeli military took about a dozen foreign reporters on a rare foray into the Gaza Strip Thursday, a day when a bombardment killed the Hamas security chief and an Israel shell landed on the United Nations headquarters there.