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Obama Will Not Stop Iran’s Nuke Program — But Surely Israel Will Try
3 comments on Obama Will Not Stop Iran’s Nuke Program — But Surely Israel Will TryWilliam Kristol argues persuasively that “President Barack Obama [has] made it clear that he’s resigned to a nuclear Iran.” Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, Obama told George Stephanopoulos: If the question is do we…
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Ahmadinejad Seems to Have a Death Wish
It has become hard to imagine a peaceful ending to the Iranian nuclear problem. I’ve gone back and forth on this, but it seems highly likely that Israel, which twice before has launched pre-emptive attacks…
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Rethinking an Israeli Attack on Iran’s Nukes
Will the Sunni Saudis side with the Jews against Shiite Iran? The Sunday Times today reports that Saudia Arabia has quietly let Israel know that “that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli…
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Pace Bolton, I’m Betting Against an Israeli Air Strike on Iran’s Nuke Facilities
Osirak was quite a hike, and Iran is even farther In today’s Washington Post, former UN Ambassador John Bolton stops just short of openly rooting for Israel to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities: Iran’s nuclear…
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Oliphant Takes Dehumanization of Jews into the Mainstream
Clifford May of the indispensable Foundation for Defense of Democracies weighs in on the Oliphant cartoon: Let’s not call the political cartoonist Pat Oliphant an anti-Semite or even an Israel-basher. Let’s just be clear about…
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Oliphant’s Cartoon Is Not Just Despicable, It’s Dangerous
At Israel Insider, Barry Rubin does the best job I’ve seen of describing precisely why Pat Oliphant’s recent cartoon — featuring a goose-stepping, headless swordsman pushing a Jew-shark-on-a-unicycle — is so powerful, and so powerfully…
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Freeman Screed Shows America Dodged A Bullet
Chas Freeman — who would have been in charge of producing policy-neutral reports synthesizing the findings of America’s 16 intelligence agencies — described the opposition to his appointment thusly: The tactics of the Israel Lobby…
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Captured Hamas Map Shows "Human Shield" Strategy
Further proof that Hamas deliberately puts Palestinians in harm’s way. The only thing more valuable to Hamas than dead Israelis is dead Palestinians. (Hat tip: Jonah)
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"A Sickness in the Soul of Middle-Eastern Islam"
I don’t agree with every syllable of Ralph Peters’s column in today’s New York Post, but this part works: Israel hasn’t killed a single civilian in the Gaza Strip. Over a hundred civilians have died,…
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Gaza: A Time for War, a Time for Peace
At Pajamas Media, Middle East commentator Eli Bernstein examines Israel’s war against Hamas in the context of the ancient doctrine of a “just war.” He concludes, of course, that Israel has the right to use…