haaretz.com - 12/11/2008
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haaretz.com —
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 ...
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Obama's atomic umbrella: U.S. nuclear strike ...
jpost.com - 12/4/2008
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jpost.com —
The IDF is drawing up options for a
strike on Iranian nuclear facilities that do not include...
coordination with the United States, The Jerusalem Post has learned. While its preference is to coordinate with the US, defense officials have said Israel is ...
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IDF preparing options for Iran strike | Iran news | ...
campaignspot.nationalreview.com - 12/11/2008
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Kumbayah My Lord, And Prepare The Airstrikes
Jules Crittenden —
... is unimpressed by sanctions, and likes it when Iranians are kept guessing. Hot Air notes some downsides to violating Iraqi airspace and ticking off the Iranian people, does the math and greenlights it. Topics: ...
Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog —
Stephen Schwartz and Irfan Al-Alawi examine the "global force behind Mumbai’s agony."
Texas senator Kay Bailey Hutchison takes initial steps to run for governor in 2010.
George Will ponders Obama's absurd pledge to "save or create 2.5 million jobs."
David Kopel wants to free Plaxico Burress.
Israel draws up plans to strike Iran that don't require U.S. coordination?
A Rasmussen poll shows Chris Matthews three points behind Arlen Specter in a 2010 Senate race.
Hawks In Doves Clothing
Crooks and Liars —
... It is, of course, an insane notion -- one designed to keep up the pressure of bellicose rhetoric aimed at Iran in the mistaken idea that the Iranian regime will thus become less entrenched and enjoy less domestic support. Even some conservative commentators know this (Ed Morrissey for one): ...
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U.S. Nuclear Guarantee To Israel Makes No Sense
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Enough Stupid Arguments About Israel
balloon-juice.com 12/31/2008 — Often simply naming something makes it easier to see and understand the next time. Take the argument that pressing crisis X demands some sort of immediate response is sufficient by itself to endorse reaction Y. This is plainly ridiculous. The ways ...
Shorter Benny Morris
sadlyno.com 1/1/2009 —
Above: Slouching Towards the Samson Option
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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]
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Can There Be Politics in Tragedy? Or in Gaza?
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/5/2009 — I'm immersed in long-range writing and leave tomorrow for six months in Berlin, but the Gaza war provokes me to share a brilliant essay by Darry Li, a doctoral student in anthropology and Middle East Studies at Harvard and a student at Yale Law ...
Invoking the Holocaust to Defend the Occuption
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/11/2008 —
For American readers, the great virtue of Avraham Burg's important new book is that he says things about Israel and the Jewish people that are hardly ever heard in mainstream discourse in the United States. It is hard to believe how stunted and ...
Fitzgerald: The jihad against Israel
jihadwatch.org 12/15/2008 — The war against Israel waged by Muslim Arabs and other Muslims who follow the Arab lead is merely a classic Jihad. After the Six-Day War, the Arabs made every effort, because they realized that a military "solution" was not at hand. They realized ...
Today in The Nation: Gaza Attacks
thenation.com 1/9/2009 — Katrina vanden Heuvel UN Human Rights Rapporteur Richard Falk condemns Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and calls for a new approach to provide real protection for the Palestinian people.
Why I Am a Democrat
njdc.org 2/17/2009 — I am pro-Israel. I am a Zionist. I have been a member of AIPAC for virtually my entire adult life. I am a Democrat. And I’m in good company. Of the 32 Jews in the House of Representatives, only one is a Republican, and of the 13 Jews in the Senate, only one is a Republican . Barack Obama ...
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