...Netanyahu says a military strike may be inevitable. "It's a race against time," said George Birnbaum, Netanyahu's chief of staff in the 1990s. "Being the size of Rhode Island means it wouldn't take many...

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...as soon as the opportunity arises. Israel attacked Egypt and Iran, but also the US. Remember the USS Liberty? Israel has no friends and they want no friends. We should withdraw all US support. They don't...

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...Iran with its new drones, Prince Saud said: "Talk about changing lifestyle. I think this would change lifestyles at once, forcibly." Hillary Clinton was in the region recently, warning that Iran was "moving...

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...according to a March 1 Kernel article. Over a 24-hour period, graduate students from the Patterson School participated in the simulated crisis for the seventh year. Through this simulation, students learn the...

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...and it's easy to imagine how that made them feel. As Ms. Sloan points out, Palestine is a region, not a nation, in the same way that the Sahara is a region. Most of the Arabs who owned land there SOLD it to the...

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...the U.S. will soon attack Iran to stop it from making a nuclear bomb? If so, do you recommend that I buy oil company stocks, or an oil ETF?" No to the first question and, thus, no to the second. In fact, just...

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...if it deems international diplomacy a dead end. The specter of an ensuing regional war has hovered over the international crisis talks with Tehran, which denies it has hostile designs. Editing by Charles Dick)

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...nuclear facilities at noon on Friday. Diplomats from Iran, Israel, the United States and other delegations met in the Patterson Office Tower to solve the crisis. You won't find anything about the attack on...

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...interest in the violence in Gaza until Israel attacked Gaza in order to defend its civilians. Consider Lebanon. In 1970, after being thrown out of Jordan for trying to overthrow the ruling monarchy, the armed...

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...boost the capacity of its military wing and threatened to retaliate if Israel attacked Lebanon. 'Deep' ties Since 2006, the Hezbollah leader has made few public appearances in Lebanon, even avoiding key...

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...Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen." Bubalo believes Iran is trying to place itself within "technical reach" of a nuclear weapon largely via a civil nuclear program. "The question is what will happen once...

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...they deenmed a casus belli. Syria who had a treaty with Egypt attacked Israel. Likewise in '73 it was Israel that was attacked. The Sinai has been returned to Egypt because the two countries were able to come...

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...nuclear facilities. U.S. officials Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have expressed worry at the specter of Israel triggering a new Middle East war. Asked if the Americans...

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...their alliance and warning Israel not to risk attacking either of them. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, flew to Damascus for talks with Bashar al-Assad days after the US appointed an ambassador to...

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...intention to destroy civilian targets. I wonder if Israel is using the people of Tel Aviv as human shields, as the military headquarters and a large army base are there. Dear Editor: I laughed out loud after...

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...in Gaza last year and destroying its infrastructure. Many, if not most, she says, don't believe Israel is really committed to a peace process. Both Kaye and Tannenwald agree that there is a much more...

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...biggest drone, capable of attacking Iran. But if you've followed this stuff long enough, it begs another question: How many times, exactly, can you unveil a drone? The Eitan ("steadfast") is a derivative of...

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...the Lebanese coast. On 8 June, the Secretary of Defense ordered the Marine Amphibious Ready Group at Rota to the eastern Med for potential evacuation of American citizens from Beirut, Lebanon. John F. Kennedy s...

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By Erika Solomon Concerned that its image abroad is suffering, Israel is going on the offensive to show that Palestinians, not Israelis, are responsible for perpetuating the region's cycle of violence. With the...

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...II. A war with Iran would be a far different creature than the debacle that has been Iraq, with the million or so civilian casualties, the several million refugees and thousands of new haters of "the West."

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