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Top Netanyahu Adviser set to become Israel’s next US Ambassador

From On December 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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While Chuck Hagel is twisting in the wind, being savaged by the Emergency Committee for Israel and other “pro-Israel” organizations, Israels’ Prime Minister is contemplating making a neoconservative American-born GOP operative Israel’s next ambassador to the United States.

Ariel Kahan, the diplomatic correspondent of the conservative and religiously orthodox [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On March 2, 2011 · 2 Comments

News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for March 1-2:

The Wall Street Journal: The WSJ’s editorial board catalogs newspaper and blog commentary on “The ‘Israel First’ Myth: Obsessed with the Jewish state, Mideast ‘experts’ got the region all wrong.” The writers lash out at the New York Times’s Thomas Friedman for his history of [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On February 9, 2011 · 2 Comments

News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for February 9:

The Wall Street Journal: Kenneth M. Pollack, director of the Saban center at the Brookings Institution, opines, “Could al Qaeda Hijack Egypt’s Revolution?” and observes, “the Iranian regime is also gleeful about the collapse of Mr. Mubarak, one of America’s most important Arab allies and [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On January 31, 2011 · 1 Comment

News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for January 29 – January 31:

Council on Foreign Relations: Elliott Abrams blogs on the jailed American hikers and USAID contractor in Iran and concludes that it is time for the Obama administration to ratchet up demands for their release. He asks rhetorically, “I hope we have [...]

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From On January 12, 2011 · 1 Comment

News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for January 12:

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 and lies they tell to delegitimize the Jewish state are part and parcel of the war [...]

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The Daily Talking Points

From On December 8, 2010 · 1 Comment

News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for December 8, 2010:

The Washington Times: Ilan Berman, vice president of the hawkish American Foreign Policy Council, writes that the WikiLeaks cables “demolishes a number of sacred cows relating to American policy towards the Islamic republic” and brings the United States “one step closer to [...]

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Lee Smith: “Automated Meaning-Extraction” System Confirms Iranian Control Over Hezbollah

From On October 6, 2010 · 2 Comments

Despite the growing list of voices supporting the concept of linkage—the notion, accepted at the highest levels of the U.S. military, that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will help promote U.S. strategic interests in the Middle East—neoconservatives continue to push the narrative that pressuring Israel to make necessary concessions for peace with its neighbors is [...]

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From On October 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

News and views relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for October 6, 2010.

Wall Street Journal:  John Hopkins professor Fouad Ajami defends the whole of the Iraq War and addresses concerns that the country is subject to undue Iranian influence. He acknowledges that many commentators see evidence of Iran’s influence in the election last March [...]

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