jpost.com - 3/5/2009
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Israel is seriously considering taking unilateral military action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, according to a report by top US political figures and experts released Wednesday. The report also says Israel's time frame for action is growing shorter, not only because of Iranian ...
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 3/7/2009
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Jon Chait argues that the opposition to Chas
Freeman is largely about the rigidity of his realism,...
his connections with Saudi Arabia, and his brutal realpolitik with respect to China. And he has argued against the notion that this contretemps was ...
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A Freeman Time-Line
in.reuters.com - 3/8/2009
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has test-fired a new
air-to-surface missile, Iranian media reported on Sunday, in the...
Islamic Republic's latest display of its military capability. The missile test was carried out despite the offer by the administration of ...
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Iran test-fires new missile - media
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article.nationalreview.com - 3/4/2009
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article.nationalreview.com —
Three of the major foreign-policy challenges the United
States faces today involve the survival of Israel, the...
Saudis promotion of radical Islam, and the ambitions of China. To navigate them, Obama has chosen a fierce critic of Israel -- our only reliabl
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Editors: Intelligence Failure
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Obama's (only?) decent appointment
Israel Matzav —
Obama's (only?) decent appointment [image] With all of the bad appointments President Obama has been making in Washington these days - Chas Freeman and George Mitchell being recent appointments directly affecting this region, and many others that are problematic both for us and on the domestic level - it would only be fair to acknowledge an appointment of someone who actually understands the subject for which he is responsible. That appointment is Dennis Ross, who is Obama's envoy to Iran. Now, before you all get upset with me, I'm not saying that I agree with Ross' position about the 'peace process' or that Ross hasn't harmed Israel in the past. ...
Israel Seriously Considering Iran Military Op
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... administration is planning with Teheran to be effective. An early draft of the report was endorsed by Dennis Ross before he withdrew upon joining the Obama administration, in which he is serving as a special adviser dealing with various countries in the region, including Iran. Senator Evan Bayh of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Congressman Gary Ackerman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East, were among the signatories. Read more: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=123610315893...
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President Obama’s kicking off his health care reform today in the worst possible way: with a mischaracterization of data.
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