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Iran policy reveals split between U.S. Jewish and Israeli left
Israel\’s highest-ranking female soldier, Brig. Gen. Yisraela Oron, was sounding all the right notes for her J Street hosts.
Paradoxes characterize life in Israel
To be an Israeli at the time of the state\’s 60th anniversary means to be resigned to living with insoluble emotional and political paradoxes. It means living with a growing fear of mortality, even as we celebrate our ability to outlive every threat. We are almost certainly the only nation that marks its Independence Day with an annual poll that invariably includes the question: \”Do you believe the country will still exist 50 years from now?\”
Books: Former CIA analyst details failures in agency actions
\”Failure of Intelligence, The Decline and Fall of the CIA\” by Melvin A. Goodman (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).
Briefs: CIA lifts lid on Israeli raid on Syrian reactor; Iranians raze Tehran shuls
CIA: Syria Could Have Made Two Nukes
\nIsrael destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor that was nearly ready to produce two bombs, the CIA chief said.
\nMichael Hayden said Monday that the secret, unfinished reactor that the United States believes Israel bombed Sept. 6 in northeastern Syria eventually would have made fissile material for bombs.
Briefs: Some West Bank settlers would agree to leave, Israel OKs Palestinian police stations
Approximately one in five Israelis living east of the West Bank security fence would leave if offered government support, a poll found. According to an internal government study, whose results were leaked Tuesday to Yediot Achronot, approximately 15,000 of the 70,000 settlers whose communities are not taken in by the fence would accept voluntary relocation packages.
Iran, Israel and the 2008 election
The Republican Party has a two-sided albatross around its neck, an unpopular president who is trying desperately to keep an unpopular war going past Election Day so that its disastrous ending can be on the next president\’s watch.
Bush flirts with peace talks but won’t commit to Palestinians
President George W. Bush kicked off the week by reaffirming his vision of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it was widely seen as an attempt to divert attention from his debacle in Iraq rather than a commitment to sustained diplomacy.
The Importance of Accessibility
President Bush made a point of going around the table and greeting each of us personally before the \”formal\” meeting began. But herein lies the curious part. There really was no formal meeting.