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March 5th, 2012

During a press conference Monday, liberal advocacy groups CODEPINK and Veterans for Peace condemned President Barack Obama’s lack of diplomacy towards Iran and praised Republican Candidate Ron Paul’s foreign policy positions on the Islamic regime. (more)

March 5th, 2012

President Barack Obama says he opposes Iranian possession of a nuclear weapon, but his deputies suggest he may accept Iranian “nuclear capability.” (more)

March 4th, 2012

Graffiti reading “Victory to the Taliban,” “Victory to Hamas” and the word “Jihad” written inside a rocket appeared overnight on sidewalks outside the downtown Washington, D.C. convention center where President Barack Obama spoke to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Sunday. (more)

March 4th, 2012

President Barack Obama tried to make the case Sunday that his policy on Iran is working and that he is a staunch supporter of Israel, both practically and viscerally. (more)

March 2nd, 2012

President Barack Obama is carefully trying to reconcile his public support for the removal of Arab dictatorships with his outreach to his influential Jewish supporters who fear those revolutions will threaten Israel’s safety and Arabs’ freedoms. (more)

February 23rd, 2012

Supposedly, a combination of diplomatic and economic sanctions, coupled with a threat of military action, will negate any requirement to actually use force to bring a halt to Iran’s nuclear weapons development program. Yet sanctions only have a salutary effect on rational governments. President Ahmadinejad and the regime in Tehran are not rational. If one is serious about influencing their behavior it will be necessary to use other, more threatening means than just to disrupt their economy. (more)

February 23rd, 2012

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February 22nd, 2012

“Mostafa’s ultimate goal was the annihilation of Israel,” Fatemeh Bolouri Kashani told the Fars News Agency this week. (more)

February 22nd, 2012

In an interview on Russia Today with Gayane Chichakyan on Tuesday, former MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan warned that some people in positions of power in Israel and the United States that would like to see the U.S. engaged in a war with Iran over its potential to build a nuclear weapon. (more)

February 19th, 2012

Turkey will never allow any third country, particularly Israel, to use intelligence obtained by a NATO radar system, its foreign minister said on Friday. (more)

February 19th, 2012

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. and Britain on Sunday urged Israel not to attack Iran’s nuclear program as the White House’s national security adviser arrived in the region, reflecting growing international jitters that the Israelis are poised to strike. (more)

February 16th, 2012

On Wednesday’s “Special Report Online” segment on FoxNews.com, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said that if Israel decides to attack Iran in order to thwart its development of nuclear weapons, the collateral damage wouldn’t start a third world war. (more)

February 15th, 2012

With Iran allegedly striking out at Israeli citizens and Jewish targets around the world, Israeli and American security officials in the U.S. are on high alert. (more)

February 14th, 2012

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has given a hardline Jewish group permission to build a new archaeological center in a tense Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem, officials said Tuesday. (more)

February 10th, 2012

Carl von Clausewitz, the renowned Prussian military theorist, famously wrote that war is merely a continuation of politics by other means. If so, then the Obama administration has disastrously misunderstood the Clausewitzian dictum when it comes to Israeli security. By misconstruing the relationship between policy and security, the administration has undermined rather than bolstered Israeli security. (more)

February 9th, 2012

Minnesota congresswoman and former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann used her rock-star status at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference to warn right-leaning Americans about what she said was a dangerous Obama administration foreign policy. (more)

February 8th, 2012

For the second time in a few months, we have seen a crazy Israel-about-to-attack-Iran story spread around the globe. I don’t want to go into all of the details, but this tale is an example of how the media has lost it completely due to a combination of laziness (reporters don’t really do research or check sources), agenda, ignorance, and good old sensationalism. Partly, too, it arises from the mass media’s struggle to deal with the Internet media era and the Internet media’s struggle to achieve decent journalistic standards. (more)

February 7th, 2012

Twin developments have converged to require an urgent re-examination of America’s role in the world. We’re saddled with a crushing debt that demands steep spending cuts. And Americans are weary — and wary — of international activism after long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in which we spent far too much American blood and treasure for too few results. We’re broke and we’re exhausted. (more)

February 7th, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Madonna’s not finished with stadiums. (more)

February 6th, 2012

“Whoever says later may find later is too late,” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said last week. His words drove Western policymakers into a tizzy. Everyone wants to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but not everyone is willing to do what it takes to bring that about. (more)

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