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the Tuwaitha complex in Iraq. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Defense Minister Ariel Sharon saw the reactor as central to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's quest to build nuclear weapons, and they believed that it posed an existential threat to Israel. The timing of the strike was justified by intelli

nts and warnings of military action. For Israelis considering a strike on Iran, Osirak seems like a model for effective preventive war. After all, Hussein never got the bomb, and if Israel was able to brush back one enemy hell-bent on its destruction, it can do so again. But a closer look at the Osira

on saw the reactor as central to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's quest to build nuclear weapons, and th

an. The Israeli government, he said, recognizes that "as president of the United States, I don't bluff." The White House's choice of interviewer — Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for the magazine The Atlantic — was carefully calculated. Mr. Goldberg is closely read among Jews in America; in 2010, he

onomic sanctions have "kicked in" strongly enough to produce the desired result—until now. Sanctions against the regimes led by Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Bashar al-Assad produced scarcity and hardship for the poorest of their citizens but enriched the leadership circle, who exacted higher rents o

s against the regimes led by Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Bashar al-Assad produced scarcity and

st the regimes led by Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Bashar al-Assad produced scarcity and hardsh

his obvious pro- Israel record as defense secretary, he is still married to a set of ideas about Middle East peace that may no longer be operative. Jeffrey Goldberg is a Bloomberg View columnist. NYT Mr. Kerry Fumbles in Egypt The Editorial Board November 4, 2013 -- Secretary of State John Kerry's trip to Egy

committed itself to working for it. Yet the old one-state solution found new advocates in Libya, Iraq and Iran. The late Col. Moammar Khadafy and Saddam Hussein and Iran's "Supreme Guide" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei argued that the so-called "South African model" could be applied to Israel — a single state of Pa

Iraq and Iran. The late Col. Moammar Khadafy and Saddam Hussein and Iran's "Supreme Guide" Ayatollah Ali

d Iran. The late Col. Moammar Khadafy and Saddam Hussein and Iran's "Supreme Guide" Ayatollah Ali Khamene

eforming Syria, but about "regime change", and that it was that even from before the first protest erupted in Dera'a? In his recent interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, [5] given in advance of President Obama's American Israel Public Affairs Committee speech, the president, inter alia, was question

the regime." Pillar says the theory has some historical evidence on its side. "The big data point in support of this concept is the Iran-Iraq war: Saddam Hussein's Iraq attacking Iran," he says. "Iraq was the aggressor, and the attack [had] a big rally-around-the-flag effect and it had a positive effect in bol

in support of this concept is the Iran-Iraq war: Saddam Hussein's Iraq attacking Iran," he says. "Iraq w

ort of this concept is the Iran-Iraq war: Saddam Hussein's Iraq attacking Iran," he says. "Iraq was the ag

during an election season "there are comments made that certainly don't reflect our foreign policy." In an interview last week with the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, Mr. Obama dismissed domestic critics of his Israel policy as "a set of political actors who want to see if they can drive a wedge . . . between Ba

But Israel also has a short-term objective — and that is to play for time. Israel notes that its 1981 bombing of a nuclear reactor in Iraq set back Saddam Hussein's program — and did not result in some sort of massive retaliation. Something similar happened with the 2007 bombing of a Syrian installation. Neithe

e modest number of outside ground troops. They could be partly modeled on the protection we afforded Kurds in Iraq throughout the 1990s, even while Saddam was still in power. Alas, this task would be harder here. There is no natural geographic or demographic logic to any particular possible safe zone

ing of a nuclear reactor in Iraq set back Saddam Hussein's program — and did not result in some sort of ma

. TIME Five Tips For on Nuclear Negotiations With Iran Tony Karon Article 4. Bloomberg Israelis Grow Confident Strike on Iran's Nukes Can Work Jeffrey Goldberg Article 5. The Moscow Times Beautiful Friendships Richard Lourie Article 6. NOW Lebanon Adieu, Hezbollah Hanin Ghaddar Article 7. The New R

500,000 US troops to the kingdom to expel Saddam Hussein's forces from neighboring Kuwait. In the eyes of

-up to his 2010 reelection bid, Maliki's Electoral Commission disqualified more than 500, mostly Sunni, candidates on charges that they had ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. For the Obama administration, however, tangling with Maliki meant investing time and energy in Iraq, a country it desperately wanted t

Magazine that appears under the eye-catching headline, "The Man Who Broke the Middle East." The man in question is not Sykes or Picot or Nasser or Saddam or Khomeini or George W. Bush or Noun al-Maliki, but Barack Obama. I often agree with Elliott, but I could not let this one go by without a respons

s Conflict Grows in Middle East, US-Saudi Gulf Widens Fahad Nazer Article 4. Atlantic Monthly No, President Obama Did Not Break the Middle East Jeffrey Goldberg Article 5. The Atlantic Obama's Disastrous Iraq Policy: An Autopsy Peter Beinart Article 6. The Huffington Post Time for America's Middle East

e forces organize themselves in order to govern the region Hamid Alkifaey is a writer and journalist. He was the first government spokesman in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq and is founder-leader of the Movement for Democratic Society. Currently he is researching democratization at the University of Exeter in the U

t. He was the first government spokesman in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq and is founder-leader of the Moveme

as the first government spokesman in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq and is founder-leader of the Movement for D

guson May 15, 2011 -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thinks the Chinese government is "scared" of the Arab Spring. "They're worried," she told Jeffrey Goldberg in the latest Atlantic, "and they are trying to stop history, which is a fool's errand. They cannot do it." These are words—intemperate, undiplomat

capital, and both yesterday and today, air raid sirens wailed throughout the coastal Mediterranean city for the first time since 1991, when Iraq's Saddam Hussein lobbed scud missiles at Israel during Gulf War precipitated by his invasion of Kuwait. And in the late afternoon, the first air raid sirens in me

city for the first time since 1991, when Iraq's Saddam Hussein lobbed scud missiles at Israel during Gu

or the first time since 1991, when Iraq's Saddam Hussein lobbed scud missiles at Israel during Gulf War

Act Ulrike Putz Article 2. Foreign Policy A Pillar of Problems Jonathan Schanzer Article 3. The Atlantic Israel's Lack of Strategic Thinking Jeffrey Goldberg Article 4. The Christian Science Monitor For both Hamas and Israel, there are reasons to escalate Dan Murphy Article 5. Foreign Policy The Pe

the Tuwaitha complex in Iraq. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Defense Minister Arid Sharon saw the reactor as central to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's quest to build nuclear weapons, and they believed that it posed an existential threat to Israel. The timing of the strike was justified by intellig

ents and warnings of military action. For Israelis considering a strike on Iran, Osirak seems like a model for effective preventive war. After all, Hussein never got the bomb, and if Israel was able to brush back one enemy hell- bent on its destruction, it can do so again. But a closer look at the Osir

on saw the reactor as central to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's quest to build nuclear weapons, and th

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irst black president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama. The plaque could very well read that he h

d spoke about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Moreover, he understood the conflict's centrality in the broader Arab narrative. As he told the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg in 2008, "this constant wound...this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy." Even after becoming president, Obama would go out of hi