swampland.blogs.time.com - 5/7/2009
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Andrew Sullivan has been having a back-and-forth with the neos over at the Commentary blog about Israel's nukes. Israel has them, obviously. Sullivan believes, rightly, that if Israel has them, its rivals in the region--Iran, for example--might want some nukes as a deterrent. In one of the ...
haaretz.com - 5/8/2009
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haaretz.com —
Senior officials in Jerusalem expressed concern recently over
the sharp decline in the coordination between Israel and...
the United States on security and state affairs since President Barack Obama's entered the White House and especially since the ...
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Jerusalem worried over breakdown of U.S.-Israel ...
rasmussenreports.com - 5/7/2009
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rasmussenreports.com —
Forty-nine percent (49%) of Americans say that if
Israel launches an attack against Iran, the United States...
should help Israel. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 37% believe the United States should do nothing while ...
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If Israel Attacks Iran, 49% Say U.S. Should Help
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/8/2009
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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Reporters are always asking me if I think
President Barack Obama would prevail in the oft-predicted "knock...
down, drag out" fight with the Israeli government (and lobby) over the peace process. That question is especially relevant following this ...
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Obama vs. Netanyahu: Who Wins?
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Israel's Nukes
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Joe Klein joins the debate with Noah Pollak. Is Israel always the victim of threats? And Iran always the belligerent? How about Israel's constant threats of military action against Iran's
nuclear program? How about the disproportionate bellicosity Israel
visited upon Iran's Hizballah surrogate in 2006? Which is not to say
that Hizballah is anything other than a group of extremist thugs--but
southern Lebanon and, more recently, Gaza are the battlefields where
Israel's rivalry with Iran has been playing out. (Add: Indeed,
given the state of ...
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