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Don’t Just Sit There, Bomb Something

From On September 2, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by Chas Freeman

An acquaintance who, like me, used to work on foreign affairs in the U.S. government, told me the other day that he thought that, in going after Bashar al-Assad, President Barak Obama had decided on an approach more akin to Bush 41 (carefully building a consensus) than Bush 43 [...]

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Daniel Levy on Palestinian Domestic Politics

From On November 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, provides seven takeaways from the Gaza ceasefire in the Daily Beast. From Number 5, “Denying Palestinian political realities just got (much, much) harder”:

Let’s keep this short. Hamas-run Gaza in the midst of conflict with Israel has just played host to the [...]

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Judith Miller's Lies About Ahmadinejad in Lebanon

From On October 20, 2010 · 2 Comments

This is a guest post from Beirut by Marc J. Sirois, a writer and the former managing editor of the Daily Star newspaper in the Lebanese capital.

The run-up to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Lebanon called forth a barrage of comment from neoconservative circles. Unlike the savvy campaign for war in Iraq, [...]

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