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Obama Home Run with the Israelis
Obama scored a major political victory in Jerusalem last week in his interview with The Jerusalem Post, the major English-speaking conservative newspaper of Israel. David Horovitz,...
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WHAT DID WE EXPECT? FRIEDMAN ON SHARING THE BLAME FOR GEORGIA
Tom Friedman is worth reading on sharing the blame for Moscow’s aggression: If the conflict in Georgia were an Olympic event, the gold medal for brutish stupidity would go to the...
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PROVOKING FEAR OF A NEW COLD WAR
It is hard to know what in this piece is designed to drive a wedge in the new Israeli/Syrian dialogue and what spells real trouble in terms of a rapidly deteriorating relationship...
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McCain’s Temper and Global Conflict
John McCain I have been uneasy for eight years with the trend in American politics of anointing men with tempers. This is not safe in terms of global conflict. I think of the...
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Restoring American Democracy and Global Conflict Prevention
This editorial from the New York Times should be read in conjunction with Gary Wills’ trenchant analysis of Cheney’s aspiration for what conservatives have called ‘the unitary...
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I MET JIM CROW AND SENATOR OBAMA IS LAYING HIM TO REST
I was phoning somewhere in the American South for Obama the other day. What an education for me! There were simple, poor families that have been energized by the campaign,...
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OBAMA’S CHOICE, BY A SENIOR ISRAELI ANALYST
Akiva Eldar writes brilliantly as usual. Here is an excerpt: What shared values did the black American liberal observe over the last few days as he watched the broadcasts of sites...
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GEORGE MITCHELL FOR ISRAEL AND PALESTINE? A NEW HOPE
A surprise development in the million dollar question of who President Obama will appoint to oversee Israeli/Palestinian conflict intervention. I had lobbied hard in these pages...
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A role for the US in Afghan national reconciliation? by Shukria Dellawar
This is a wonderful article, very important timing. Ria is absolutely right on, except I suspect strongly that Petreaus is much more of an ally than she thinks. But there are other...
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Excellent News from Lebanon and Syria; Iran Next?
Excellent progress has been made in the Middle East due to the clever replacement of the United States as a third party. First Turkey, which helped engineer the official channel of...
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