Read this statement by Human Rights Watch that was released late Friday and ask yourself how Washington should react to Netanyahu’s claims that families in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem should be to entitled to “natural growth.” One wonders if the demolitions described below were timed to coincide with Obama’s speech [...]
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Guest Post by Marsha B. Cohen
Two weeks ago, the head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s “Task Force on Isolating Iran” sent a classified telegram to all Israeli embassies and consulates titled “Activities in the Run-up to Iran’s Presidential Election.” It detailed a variety of ways that Israeli representatives could “blacken Iran’s international reputation” and delegitimize [...]
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By Daniel Luban
Readers in need of entertainment should really check out Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney’s howler of an op-ed in the Washington Times today. While optimists may have thought that the “Obama is a secret Muslim” rumor would fade following the 2008 elections, Gaffney’s piece demonstrates that it is back with a [...]
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By Daniel Luban
At Wednesday’s Heritage Foundation conference on the Middle East peace process (which, as I wrote yesterday, was primarily devoted to pushing the almost-universally-scorned “three-state solution” for Israel-Palestine), Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes made an unusually revealing comment while discussing Iran’s upcoming presidential elections.
“I’m sometimes asked who I would vote for if [...]
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By Daniel Luban and Jim Lobe
Last Friday, The New Republic’s website published a remarkable but thus far little-noticed article by Michael Makovsky and Ed Morse. Makovsky is an alumnus of Doug Feith’s Office of Special Plans and younger brother of former Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) director David Makovsky, while Morse is a [...]
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