Israel, the Palestinians and the United Nations: Challenges for the New Administration
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Presidency of Bill Clinton
‘Peace for Our Time’
Banner headlines in a prominent national newspaper read “NUKE DEAL PAVES WAY FOR NEW ERA: Sworn Foes U.S., Iran Aim To Bury Hatchet” — without sarcasm. For critics of the Iran n...
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You Don’t Like Dealing With Terrorists? Bring Them Down.
I was in the room in 1985 during the US/Iran/Israel negotiations that eventually led to Iran-Contra, and while I had no authority to make commitments for the American Government, I had plenty of...
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Pollard Defenders Vindicated
After 25 years, the CIA has declassified documents that show Jonathan Pollard never spied on the U.S. for Israel
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A 40-Year US Embassy Crisis
The murders in Benghazi are the latest in a string of attacks on American diplomats to go unanswered by the US
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Interference
Should the United States act to protect Syrian civilians from their murderous regime? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
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Down the Mideast Peace Process Rabbit Hole (Yet Again)
One of the more curious aspects of President Obama's May 19 Middle East speech was his decision to devote so much attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The president's main the...
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Clinton Administration CIA Director R. James Woolsey Named Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of
Press Release March 24, 2011 CONTACT: Susan Firey(202) [email protected] Clinton Administration CIA Director R. James Woolsey Named Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies WASHINGTON, DC (March 24, 2011) -- Former
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A Cold-War Lesson: Be Ready and Willing to Go to the Brink With Iran
Prognostication is obviously risky. As far as I can tell, no one in the Clinton Administration in 1998, even after al-Qaeida attacked U.S. embassies in Africa, was in favor of fire-bombing the Ta...
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Conservative Columnist
Next week, President George W. Bush will welcome Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to the White House, the first Vietnamese head of state to be received there since Nguyen Van Thieu of South...
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Books: Some Unconventional Wisdom
Ian Bremmer, The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 320 pp., $26.00. Charles Peña, Winning the Un-War: A New Strate...
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The Libby NIE Leak: Much Ado about Nothing
The more one hears about Scooter Libby's being authorized to “leak” information from the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, the more this is revealed as a bogus kerfuffle, manu...