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Obama should explain how Iran endangers U.S. interests

August 21, 2012

By Shoshona Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –While noting in The Washington Post that Israel “cannot afford to outsource its security to another country,” Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, former chief of Israeli Military Intelligence, contends that President Obama can/should frame “a nuclear-armed Iran as an impermissible threat to the national interests of the United States and its […]

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

The political calculus of an attack on Iran

August 21, 2012

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –We can imagine a conversation, not too far from here, among people more important than us, about an Israeli attack on Iran and the American presidential election. Among the questions likely to be debated Will the attack lead Obama and Romney to compete in what they offer to Israel, with the

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Anti-Arabism as sinful as anti-Semitism

August 20, 2012

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Hatred and xenophobia are two of the oldest diseases afflicting the human condition. For many people living in unenlightened societies, hatred of the Other is almost as natural as mother’s milk. Jewish history bears witness to how our adversaries have vilified us, dehumanized us, persecuted us,

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East

Whimsical Obama has quality often lacking: curiosity

August 20, 2012

By David Brin PASADENA, California — I write this from Pasadena, where I just finished a public evening (that will be podcast soon on the site of KPCC FM radio) discussing with USC Professor Paul Rosenbloom and the Planetary Society’s Mat Kaplan the future of artificial intelligence, uplifting dolphins, and good or bad types of

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USA

U.S. helping Egypt re-arm in the Sinai

August 20, 2012

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Egypt has moved forces into the Sinai beyond what was agreed to in the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. Getting them in wasn’t that difficult – Israel agrees that security in the Sinai has deteriorated. Getting them out again later may be another matter. And how the U.S. positions itself

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Media adopts Palestinian talking points as their own

August 20, 2012

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel –In almost 40 years of studying these issues, I’ve never seen a better case study of mass media bias and knee-jerk narrowness than an aspect of the current flap about what presidential candidate Mitt Romney said during his trip to Israel. I’m going to focus on a single point because

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Middle East

Why shouldn’t voters see Romney’s tax returns?

August 17, 2012

By David Brin ENCINITAS, California –Mitt Willard Romney now informs us that he did pay taxes during the last ten years. Thus he attempts to staunch – despite his own refusal to provide proof in the form of tax returns – the assertion of critics like Democratic senator Harry Reid that Romney paid no taxes

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USA

Clinton signals, but doesn’t make the turn

August 17, 2012

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called cavalierly for the people of Aleppo to rise up against the Assad regime. When they did — as when President Bush (41) called on the Shi’ites and Kurds of Iraq to rise up against Saddam in 1991 — the U.S. declined to support the rebels, and

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Did Peres anger Bibi, or are they play-acting?

August 17, 2012

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–“Anybody but Peres” was the slogan in the Knesset when the Members were choosing between presidential candidates Shimon Peres and Moshe Katzav in 2000. Katzav received 63 votes to Peres’ 57. Some MKs who had promised their support to Peres voted for Katzav. Seven years later, it was clear that “Anybody but

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Morsi shows Egyptian military he’s in charge

August 15, 2012

By Yaakov Lappin WASHINGTON, D.C. — Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi delivered a severe blow to the Egyptian military’s political ambitions this week, and sent clear message to Egypt and beyond: his civilian Islamist government is now in charge. Taking advantage of widespread shock in Egypt over the brutal gunning down of 15 Egyptian soldiers by

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Middle East

Hamas chief’s brother-in-law went to Israel for treatment

August 15, 2012

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California —Irony I feel, is a very high form of morality. — JEAN STAFFORD This morning I received an email about how the Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh turns to Israel when his family needs medical attention. I know of very few countries that live by the ethic

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East

Israeli policy makers preoccupied by other nations’ opinions

August 15, 2012

By Ira Sharkansky BERGEN, Norway — Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided to file away last month’s report by a committee headed by retired Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy, which endorsed an Israeli view of international law that Yehuda and Samaria (the West Bank) are not “occupied territories,” insofar as they never were the possession of

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Democrats desperate to change subject from economy

August 15, 2012

By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Even before the presidential debates, the lines separating the worldviews of the candidates present a sharp picture of clear distinctions; and that is good for the electorate and for democracy. The incumbent, President Obama, by his words and deeds, situated himself far to the left of mainstream

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USA

Standard Chartered Branch, Deloite & Touche accused of conspiring with Iran

August 14, 2012

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Americans are jaded by the size and shape of the financial crisis that ripped through banking in 2008. Bernie Madoff, AIG, “too big to fail,” Goldman Sachs, subprime lending, unfathomable derivatives, and underwater mortgages make it hard to work up much steam on yet another banking story. And you could

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Obama should explain how Iran endangers U.S. interests

The political calculus of an attack on Iran

Anti-Arabism as sinful as anti-Semitism

Whimsical Obama has quality often lacking: curiosity

U.S. helping Egypt re-arm in the Sinai

Media adopts Palestinian talking points as their own

Why shouldn’t voters see Romney’s tax returns?

Clinton signals, but doesn’t make the turn

Did Peres anger Bibi, or are they play-acting?

Morsi shows Egyptian military he’s in charge

Hamas chief’s brother-in-law went to Israel for treatment

Israeli policy makers preoccupied by other nations’ opinions

Democrats desperate to change subject from economy

Standard Chartered Branch, Deloite & Touche accused of conspiring with Iran

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