security.nationaljournal.com - 1/6/2009
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Monday, January 5, 2009 Is Israel A Strategic Liability For The United States? As Israel escalates its efforts to root Hamas and its rocket launchers out of Gaza, the global reaction is increasingly negative -- except in the United States. Washington provides Israel with diplomatic backing, U.N. ...
lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/7/2009
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lynch.foreignpolicy.com —
I spent the morning at a lecture organized
by GWU's outstanding Homeland Security Policy Institute's Ambassador's Roundtable
Series featuring Israel's Ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor. It was a profoundly dismaying experience. Because ...
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"We have no grand political scheme"
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 1/7/2009
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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com —
Having praised the new Foreign Policy site ,
let me welcome them to the blogosphere by taking
exception to this hypothetical from new-minted FP blogger Stephen Walt, which has been mentioned favorably by Yglesias and Klein as an example of the sort ...
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A Jewish Gaza?
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The Question At Hand
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Sydney Freedberg asks whether Israel is a liability to the US: Yes, Israel and America cooperate on counterterrorism, but how many of the groups on which Israel provides intelligence would be gunning for the United States if it wasn't supporting Israel? Setting aside for a moment the emotional and religious anchors of the U.S.-Israel alliance, what is its value to the United States in practical, realpolitik terms? Michael Scheuer, Patrick Lang, Bruce Hoffman, Dov S. Zakheim, and James Carafano respond. ...
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Rantings of a Sandmonkey —
... Well, 10 people weighed in, and many of them did a whole "the cultural, political and spirtual ties" argument to justify supporting the alliance, but the only real cold analysis of the alliance came, interestingly enough, from two voices who thought such an alliance is not worth its trouble. First there is Michael Sheuer: ...
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