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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It may not be as noteworthy as Time's Person of the Year, but CNN appears to have actually stuck to the results of its voting in selecting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange their "Most Intriguing Person of the Year." Though the article spends much of its time carping...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 30th, 2010: Commentary: J.E. Dyer, writing on Commentary’s Contentions blog, says that Iran has sought to weaken the U.S. military’s capabilities in the region by exploring bilateral defense...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 28th, 2010: The Weekly Standard: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz write that the Obama administration’s sanctions against Iran have...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 27th, 2010: The Weekly Standard: Stephen F. Hayes blogs on a report that a member of Iran’s Qods Force, serving as a Taliban commander, has been arrested in Afghanistan. Hayes writes that this...
NORAD officials are adamant that their annual Santa-tracking exercise does not interfere with their ordinary operations, and officials have made on-again, off-again claims that the operation costs either nothing or very, very little (which in Pentagon terms could be...
