marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/7/2009
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Transition officials confirm that President-elect Obama has asked Dennis Ross , Richard Haass , and Richard Holbrooke , to serve as his chief emissaries to world hot spots. It's expected that Ross will get the Iran portfolio, that Holbrooke, the hard-headed architect of the Dayton Peace ...
theatlantic.com - 1/5/2009
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theatlantic.com —
Israel has just embarked on a land invasion
of the Gaza Strip after a week of aerial...
bombing. Gaza is bordered by Egypt, and was under Egyptian military control from 1949 through 1967. And yet in a startling rebuke to geography and recent history and ...
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Iran's Postmodern Beast in Gaza - The Atlantic
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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"
pajamasmedia.com - 1/5/2009
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pajamasmedia.com —
After years of refusing to see Iran’s aggressive
intentions, most sensible observers of things Middle Eastern now...
recognize that the most important terrorist organizations, from Islamic Jihad to Hezbollah and Hamas, are essentially Iranian ...
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Is Iran in Trouble?
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Hugh Hewitt: The Shadow Government
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
... . UPDATE : Marc Ambinder reports that Dennis Ross will handle Iran for the new Administration, Richard Holbroke Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, and Richard Haass the Middle East. All three are experienced professional diplomats, and as with the rest of the president-elect's national security appointments, reflect a much more serious foreign policy than the presidential campaign implied. The president-elect won't be headed to unconditional talks with Ahmadinejad any time soon. As noted below, conservatives concerned with the national security of the United States have much to ...
Ross, Holbrooke, Haass
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
A three-some for Obama.
Instahoglets Wednesday
Newshoggers.com —
... is really to be given the Iran brief, however, then any hope that Obama meant what he said and will negotiate in good faith goes up in probably all-too-real smoke. It'll be more of that Bush faux-diplomacy and a big helping of "faster please" all around. ...
Wednesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... : "The coal ash pond that ruptured and sent a billion gallons of toxic sludge across 300 acres of East Tennessee last month was only one of more than 1,300 similar dumps across the United States -- most of them unregulated and unmonitored -- that contain billions more gallons of fly ash and other byproducts of burning coal." * Obama has asked Dennis Ross, Richard Haass, and Richard Holbrooke "to serve as his chief emissaries to world hot spots." * Nancy Killefer will serve as the nation's first " ...
Dennis Ross and diplomacy-derangement syndrome
Power Line —
... Marc Ambinder reports that Barack Obama will make Dennis Ross his "chief emissary" to Iran. This strikes me as bad, though hardly surprising, news. ...
That Iran NIE? Oh, We All Just Ignore It
Newshoggers.com —
... is really to be given the Iran brief, as rumors indicate then it's simply more of the same pretence at engagement while actually being as obstructive as possible - ...
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israelmatzav.blogspot.com 12/4/2008 — The JPost is reporting on Thursday that the IDF is preparing to attack Iran on its own, with or without American support. "It is always better to coordinate," one top Defense Ministry official explained last week. "But we are also preparing options ...
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righteousrantings.blogspot.com 2/20/2009 — Giving a brief statement after his formal appointment to the position of Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu said: "Iran is seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon and constitutes the gravest threat to our existence since the war of independence. The terrorist forces of Iran threaten us from ...
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tonykaron.com 10/20/2008 —
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blogs.tnr.com 12/8/2008 — The hawkish front-runner to lead Israel next likes what he's heard from Obama on Iran: Benjamin Netanyahu, whose right-wing party leads in polls before a Feb.
10 election, was responding to concerns raised by Israeli analysts that
Obama did not ...
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africa.reuters.com 11/25/2008 — By Jeffrey Heller WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday Israel was free to take any action it deemed necessary against Iran's nuclear program, saying there were no U.S. restraints. But the outgoing Israeli ...
Will Israel Attack Iran?
outsidethebeltway.com 4/18/2009 — There’s an article in the Times of London today claiming that Israel’s air force is on standby, just waiting for the order from Israel’s government before mounting an air assault against Iran’s nuclear development sites:
The ...
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