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Nuclear Fuel Swap Deal

EUROPE NEWS MAY 17, 2010 Iranian Nuclear Deal Raises Fears By JAY SOLOMON, MARGARET COKER And JOHN LYONS Vahid Salemi/Associated PressFrom left to right, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet […]

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Why Democracy Activists Miss George W. Bush

MAY 17, 2010 Islam, Obama and the Empty Quarter By SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM The term Empty Quarter refers to a desolate stretch of land in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. More recently it is aptly used as a metaphor to refer to the quarter of the Muslim world that is still undemocratic. Other

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Iran and the Bomb

Wall Street Journal MAY 3, 2010 Get Ready For a Nuclear Iran By JOHN BOLTON Negotiations grind on toward a fourth U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran’s nuclear weapons program, even as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York to address the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. Sanctions advocates acknowledge that the Security Council’s ultimate

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Does Obama Know Jerusalem’s History?

APRIL 28, 2010 Obama’s Jerusalem Stonewall By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Thanks to a deadlock engineered by the U.S. government, the Middle East peace process is stalled. President Obama began this stalemate last year when he called for a settlement freeze, and he escalates it now with a major change of American policy regarding Jerusalem. The president

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Middle East Intrigue

APRIL 20, 2010 Plotting the Next Mideast War By BRET STEPHENS In the matter of Syria’s alleged shipments of Scud missiles to Hezbollah, it bears noting how often the fate of the Middle East has turned on seemingly trivial or nearly imperceptible events. There’s a simple explanation for this: That which cannot be seen or

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Netanyahu Humiliated – An Example of Obama’s “Diplomacy”?

The Times March 26, 2010 Binyamin Netanyahu humiliated after Barack Obama ‘dumped him for dinner’ (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) The President was said to have walked out of the meeting, saying to Mr Netanyahu: ‘Let me know if there is anything new’ Giles Whittell, Washington, and James Hider, Jerusalem For a head of government to visit

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