Spoiler Alert: Netanyahu will be all about Iran at UNGA
via LobeLog by Marsha B. Cohen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as of last week, planned on hitting the “refresh” button on the Iranian threat to Israel and the world, juxtaposing the callow...
View ArticleBarking Up The Wrong Tree
via LobeLog by Peter Jenkins Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement to the UN General Assembly today leaves me feeling frustrated. There are more than 30 points in it that I would dearly love to...
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via LobeLog by Marsha B. Cohen Hours before the U.S. federal government shutdown, members of the House and Senate from both parties were with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a reception...
View ArticleThe Messianic, Apocalyptic Bibi Netanyahu
via LobeLog by Jim Lobe & Daniel Luban For much of the past few years, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has described the ruling regime in Iran as “messianic” and “apocalyptic”, a talking...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia’s Pointless Theatrics
via LobeLog by Thomas W. Lippman Unless the people who run Saudi Arabia know something nobody else does, it’s difficult to see what they hope to achieve by turning down a seat on the United Nations...
View ArticleThe End of the Beginning
via LobeLog by Robert E. Hunter The talks between Iran and the “P5+1” countries last week bring to mind Winston Churchill’s 1942 description of World War II: “It is not even the beginning of the end....
View ArticleIsraelis, Saudis Just Getting Started in Opposing U.S.-Iran Detente
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick The trick to finding an agreement between the P5+1 world powers and Iran has become clear: keep Israel and Saudi Arabia out of the room. (But don’t expect them to be...
View ArticleAmidst CW Disarmament, No Pause in Syrian Fighting
via LobeLog by Wayne White Most international attention remains focused on locating, inspecting and destroying Syria’s chemical weapons (CW) arsenal, but the bloody conventional civil war rages on. The...
View ArticleWhither Nuclear Talks with Iran?
by Peter Jenkins via IPS News On a purely rational view, it is hard not to be optimistic about the upcoming talks with Iran in Geneva (Nov. 7-8), and about what might follow. On the Iranian side, the...
View ArticleDrones Aplenty
via LobeLog How the White House Flung the Door Wide Open by Tyler Cullis It is a trope among foreign policy elites that the Obama administration lacks a coherent strategy for dealing with conflict and...
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