hosted.ap.org - 6/3/2009
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MOSCOW (AP) -- Israel does not intend to bomb Iran, Israel's foreign minister said Wednesday, stepping back from suggestions it might attack a foe it says is bent on developing nuclear weapons. Speaking at the end of a three-day visit to Russia, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Iran's ...
thecable.foreignpolicy.com - 6/10/2009
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thecable.foreignpolicy.com —
Official Washington is laying low and saying little
as tectonic plates appear to be shifting in the...
run-up to Iran's presidential elections, to be held Friday. Despite dramatic images this week of the largest campaign demonstrations taking place in ...
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As Iran votes, all quiet on the western front
corner.nationalreview.com - 6/5/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
From an Israeli perspective, Pres. Barack Obama's speech
today in Cairo was deeply disturbing. Both rhetorically and...
programmatically, Obama's speech was a renunciation of America's strategic alliance with Israel. Rhetorically, Obama's sugar coated ...
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The End of America's Strategic Alliance with Israel?
commentarymagazine.com - 5/29/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
Dennis Ross, Special Advisor on Iran for the
Secretary of State, has a book coming out next...
month that inconveniently takes issue with the Obama Administration’s thesis of “linkage.” “Of all the policy myths that have kept us from making real progress ...
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The Mother of All Myths
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The Page by Mark Halperin —
ASSOCIATED PRESS Israel rules out bombing Iran , says Tehran's nukes are the world's problem — not just Israel's. Foreign Minister Lieberman: "We do not want a global problem to be solved with our hands.”
Obama: You Know America Is Kind Of One Of The World's Largest Muslim Nations
Ace of Spades HQ —
... . And the Israeli Foreign Minister says they aren't going to attack Iran . The comments marked a softening of signals from Netanyahu's hardline government - particularly coming from Lieberman, one its leading hawks. "We do not intend to bomb Iran, and nobody will solve their problems with our hands," Lieberman told reporters. "We don't need that. Israel is a strong country, we can protect ourselves. "But the world should understand that the Iran's entrance into the nuclear club would prompt a whole arms race, a crazy race of unconventional weaponry across the Mideast that ...
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