Wednesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 12th, 2011: Tablet Magazine: Hudson Institute Visiting Fellow Lee Smith writes, “Arabs are not winning an information war against Israel, nor anything else for that matter. Rather, the stories...

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Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 11th, 2011: Council on Foreign Relations: George W. Bush administration Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams blogs that the pronouncement by retiring Mossad head, Meir Dagan, that Iran...

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Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 10th, 2011: Commentary: Evelyn Gordon, writing on Commentary’s Contentions blog, pushes back against the claim by outgoing Mossad chief Meir Dagan that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon...

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Collateral Damage: The Equations

ALLAN NAIRN: Well, now, as the U.S. is losing its edge economically, it has one clear comparative advantage. And that's in killing. And it's using it. Obama has increased the attacks on Afghanistan, Pakistan. Brookings Institution last year estimated that for every...

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 7th, 2011: The Washington Post: Jennifer Rubin, writing on her Right Turn blog, asks whether India is doing enough to enforce sanctions against Iran. Rubin, picking up on The Wall Street...

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How to become collateral damage #37

Israeli military 'regrets' killing wrong man in Hamas raid, Unarmed Palestinian Amr Qawasme was shot dead during IDF operation to arrest militants in Hebron, Harriet Sherwood, guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 January 2011 16.03 GMT OOPS! In the occupied West Bank, Israeli...

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Fact-Checking the IDF’s Unofficial Spokespeople

By now, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attempts to spin the story of Jawaher Abu Rahmah — the Palestinian woman who died last week following a protest in the West Bank village of Bil’in, by all indications due to exposure to tear gas fired by the IDF at the...

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Wednesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 5th, 2011: The Wall Street Journal: David Feith adds his voice to the neoconservative criticism of HSBC’s recent advertisement that highlighted the high number of women in the Iranian film...

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Oh! That’s a War!

This great Gahan Wilson cartoon from the January 3, 2011 New Yorker captures the cluenessness (real or pretended) of Washington policymakers who pretend that U.S. drones and bombing raids on foreign countries are merely expressions of American good will...

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