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Tackling Iran James Risen Article 5. Los Angeles Times A nuclear Iran is too much to risk Alan J. Kuperman Article 6. The Wall Street Journal Obama and the Eisenhower Standard Fouad Ajami Article 7. The Washington Post Book review: 'The Crisis of Zionism,' by Peter Beinart Alana Newhouse An

anal between Egypt and Israel, and the Soviet Union had deemed this the right time to crush a Hungarian bid for freedom. Ours is a different world. Barack Obama isn't to be held to the Eisenhower standard. Indeed, as a fortunate "off-mic" moment recently revealed, this president bargains with Russian errand

al pressure exerted by the Obama administration. President Obama has said he would use military force only as a l

rian bid for freedom. Ours is a different world. Barack Obama isn't to be held to the Eisenhower standar

otice. On the face of it, he exudes a sublime confidence that the world could be held at bay—at least until November, past that last election. Mr. Ajami is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-chair of Hoover's Working Group on Islamism and the International Order EFTA

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Leon Panetta, America's defence secretary, has spoken of Israel attacking as early as April. Others foresee an Israeli strike designed to drag in Barack Obama in the run-up to America's presidential vote, when he will have most to lose from seeming weak. A decision to go to war should be based not on one

sence. This sure applause line precludes the acceptance of a new burden just on the other side of the Syria-Iraq frontier. The silence of President Obama on the matter of Syria reveals the general retreat of American power in the Middle East. In Istanbul some days ago, a Turkish intellectual and poli

side of the Syria-Iraq frontier. The silence of President Obama on the matter of Syria reveals the general retre

rs foresee an Israeli strike designed to drag in Barack Obama in the run-up to America's presidential vo

n lands. We should take him at his word. In a battered Syria, a desperate people await America's help and puzzle over its leader's passivity. Mr. Ajami is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-chairman of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. Artic

ating former senator George Mitchell's departure as envoy. The new Palestinian configuration further hamstrings our position. A speech by President Obama this Thursday, focusing on the Mideast writ large, with a possible mention of U.S. principles to end the conflict, is far less preferable than subs

nd Jewish ethics alike. Once upon a time, when the Arabs were hapless and America was omnipotent, Israel could get away with that. Not anymore. If Barack Obama cannot get Benjamin Netanyahu to endorse—and work toward—a Palestinian state near 1967 lines, events will pass them both by. Others will take the i

ion further hamstrings our position. A speech by President Obama this Thursday, focusing on the Mideast writ larg

Israel could get away with that. Not anymore. If Barack Obama cannot get Benjamin Netanyahu to endorse—a

Iraq— where Musa al-Sadr still enjoys a saintly aura—there shall be joy. The undoing of Gadhafi would be seen as the grant of belated justice. Mr. Ajami is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is co-chair of the H

nd-secretary level and canceled the military relationship. The consequences of this crisis for the stability of the eastern Mediterranean and for the Obama administration are quite severe. The Erdogan government is now saying explicitly something it had implied for the last two years—that Washington has

en the Arabs to come face to face, and truly for the first time, with the harvest of their own history. Now their world is what they make of it. Mr. Ajami is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-chair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. HOUSE_OVE

instead criticized how America reacted to them. (President Obama’s failure to support Egyptian revolutionaries unt