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The Iran Hysteria: At the Brink of the Abyss
We're doing it all over again. Not only do we not learn from history, we cannot seem to learn from last year or last week. In March, the Democrats have removed an item from the military appropriations bill that would have required the President to seek Congress' approval to go to war against Iran, after a number of "moderate" and conservative Democratic congressmen expressed concern over the danger to Israel. Removing the military threat "would take away our bargaining power," they said. Whatever the political realities the Democrats face, we're giving our out-of-control President tacit permission to threaten Iran with military force, including the likely use of "tactical" nuclear weapons, to prevent Iran from supposedly developing nuclear weapons. We are at the brink of an abyss potentially greater than the one we have already fallen into.
Pyongyang walks out of nuclear talks
BEIJING -- In another bizarre twist to its nuclear drama, North Korea has abruptly abandoned the latest six-nation talks on its nuclear-weapons program, ordering its chief envoy to return home in a huff over a stalled $25-million (U.S.) bank transfer. .
Israel Criticism At Fever Pitch
That sound of splashing you hear is Israel being thrown overboard. The editors of Yediot Achronot (March 20) are convinced that once again, Israel is to be abandoned by Europe and the United States as they one by one capitulate to Hamas. Yediots front page headlined (March 26) American pressure on Israel to negotiate, even though its usually called surrender when one country has to fork over and the other country doesnt, as when Hatzofeh (March 19) reports Prime Minister Ehud Olmert saying, We will speak with Abu Mazen [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas] even though he did not honor his obligations. Nevertheless, reports Yediot, if Israel negotiates, the United States will try to get the Palestinians to release kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. This, of course, is the same Bush and Olmert brain trust that agreed to stop the war against Hezbollah in return for the release of kidnapped soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.
Soros Won’t Take On AIPAC (Yet)
Besides its campaign against the Palestinian unity government, AIPAC recently pressured Democrats in Congress to drop a legislative provision that would have forced President Bush to obtain congressional approval before taking military action against Iran, Soros notes. AIPAC also became closely allied with the neocons and was an enthusiastic supporter of the invasion of Iraq, he charges. In fact, while some Jewish groups and neoconservative Jewish policy advocates lobbied for the war, there is no evidence AIPAC ever did so. Asked to cite an example of such support, Vachon acknowledged, AIPAC took no official position on the war [but] clearly there was a perception, partly orchestrated at its 2003 meeting of such support. Vachon cited a Washington Post story on the groups annual conference that year.
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