michaeltotten.com - 1/30/2009
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Israel's recent war in Gaza was waged for the simplest of reasons: to deter Hamas from firing Qassam and Grad rockets. Whether or not the Israelis succeeded is an open question. An Israeli soldier "who, by the way, was an ...
commentarymagazine.com - 1/28/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
“America was not born as a colonial power,
and that the same respect and partnership that America...
had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there’s no reason why we can’t restore that. And that I think is going to ...
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20 or 30 Years Ago?
commentarymagazine.com - 1/25/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
It is not only our enemies that will
be testing the young new American president. So will...
our allies. Or should I say ostensible allies? The latest test comes from Saudi Arabia. Prince Turki al-Faisal, a member of the royal family and a former chief ...
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The Laughable Saudi Peace Plan
commentarymagazine.com - 1/27/2009
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commentarymagazine.com —
Upon hearing that President Barack Obama sat for
an interview with pan-Arab satellite news channel al-Arabiya, my...
first inclination was to salute him for doing his best to sell U.S. foreign policy to a broad Arab audience. But then I read the ...
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Obama’s Sweet Middle Eastern Nothings
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Michael Totten: Who Really Won the Second Lebanon War
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... Egyptians, after all, think they beat Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur war, though they most certainly did not. And denial is a river that flows through other lands besides Egypt. Nasrallah, though, was all but forced to apologize to Lebanese for the death and destruction he brought down on their heads. “We did not believe,” he said on Lebanon’s New TV station, “even by one percent, that the captive operation would result in such a wide-scale war, as such a war did not take place in t read ...
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weeklystandard.com 12/29/2008 — After the expiration of a "truce" with Hamas, terror groups in Gaza pounded the Israeli south with rocket attacks. The Israeli government has responded forcefully, with waves of air strikes targeting Hamas's security infrastructure. More than 280 ...
What happens next in Lebanon?
pajamasmedia.com 6/9/2009 — An email from the Lebanese Renaissance Foundation in Lebanon looks at why Hezbollah lost and what is next for Lebanon. The story here is that the Christians essentially provided the “swing vote”. They were the “battleground” ...
U.S. Supports UK Overture Towards Hezbollah
poligazette.com 4/5/2009 —
No, no, no :
The Obama administration is “comfortable” with the British government’s attempts to engage Hizbullah, a senior British diplomat asserts.
Bill Rammell, Britain’s minister of state for foreign and ...
Hamas wants new leadership for Palestinians —
Reuters: Politics 1/30/2009
GAZA (Reuters) - The Islamist Hamas group is calling for new leadership for Palestinians to replace the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) dominated by its arch-rival President Mahmoud Abbas and the factions loyal to him.
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