January 6th, 2013 | by Marsha B. Cohen
In 2007, Sen. Minority Leader praised Chuck Hagel as “one of the premier foreign policy voices (and) one of the giants in the United States Senate.”
December 29th, 2012 | by Marsha B. Cohen
While Chuck Hagel is twisting in the wind, being savaged by the Emergency Committee for Israel and other “pro-Israel” organizations,
December 21st, 2012 | by Marsha B. Cohen
AIPAC comes knocking with a pro-Israel letter, and ‘then you’ll get 80 to 90 senators on it. I don’t think
December 14th, 2012 | by Marsha B. Cohen
Chuck Hagel hasn’t even been nominated for Secretary of Defense and yet rumors abound that he is a frontrunner for the
December 3rd, 2012 | by Marsha B. Cohen
by Marsha B. Cohen Ehud Barak is retiring from Israeli politics in 2013, after two decades. Or so he says.
November 21st, 2012 | by Marsha B. Cohen
The Gaza Strip, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt and the State of Israel, is 25 miles in long. At its narrowest point it is less than 4 miles wide, and at its maximum width, is 7.5 miles wide--a total area of 141 square miles. With a population of 1.7 million people, Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth. Iran, whose borders include the Arabian Sea to the south, Iraq to the east, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the west, and the Caspian Sea and post-Soviet Muslim states of Central Asia to the north, has a total land mass of 636,000 square miles--about the same as Alaska or Mexico--and a population of 70 million. Yet Foreign Policy CEO and editor at large David Rothkopf recently quoted an Israeli “source close to the discussions” who claimed that an Israeli surgical strike Iranian on enrichment facilities conducted by air, utilizing bombers and drone support.“might take only ‘a couple of hours’ in the best case and only would involve a ‘day or two’ overall.”
March 7th, 2012 | by Marsha B. Cohen
Is it really a good idea for a US President to look to a biblical novella (especially one whose "happy ending" is the death of tens of thousands of people), or to any religious text, as his guidebook on foreign affairs?
February 27th, 2012 | by Marsha B. Cohen
The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran formally acknowledges and confirms the claim that the Zionist Usurper Regime That Occupies Jerusalem (ZURTOJ, otherwise known as Israel) has utterly destroyed the Iranian nuclear weapons program. The Stuxnet and Duqu computer viruses, the magnetic bombs that martyred three Iranian nuclear scientists, carried out in cooperation with the terrorists of the Mojahedin-e Khalq, the explosions at Iranian military bases, and the latest revelations that Zionist commandos, aided by Kurdish fighters, have destroyed Iran's nuclear facilities and its infrastructure. We can no longer hide the fact that Iran does not have a viable nuclear weapons program. ZURTOJ has eradicated the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear capability and nothing remains of it. Zionist spies have corrupted or deleted every computer file in the Islamic Republic, shredding and burning every sheet of paper with even a shred of dual-use knowledge that might be used in the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. The Mossad’s super-sensitive mind control software have infiltrated even the brains of our researchers, from graduate students to our technical experts at the highest level, eradicating any recollection of the principles of nuclear fission and fusion.
February 5th, 2012 | by Marsha B. Cohen
Is Israel actually capable of successfully carrying out its winner-take-all high tech attack on Iran that could destroy or (more likely) might delay the development of Iran's budding nuclear program, at minimal cost--financial, environmental or in casualties--to itself or anyone else except Iran? Could the consequences of an Israeli attack on Iran that didn't succeed be almost as bad--or even worse--than one that did
July 21st, 2011 | by Marsha B. Cohen
Former CIA operations officer Robert Baer is in the headlines--again. He's predicting an Israeli attack on Iran--again. And he's promoting one of his books--again
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