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berg Mar 2 2012 -- At the White House on Monday, President Obama will seek to persuade the Israeli prime minister

hat do you want to get across to him? PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: First of all, it's important to say that I

From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen Subject: March 3 update Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:18:43 +0000 3 March, 2012 Article 1. The Atlantic Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, I Don't Bluf Jeffrey Goldberg Article 2. The Washington Post Mideast peace, with somethi

s related to the Iranian nuclear program. What is your message to the prime minister going to be? What do you want to get across to him? PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: First of all, it's important to say that I don't know exactly what the prime minister is going to be coming with. We haven't gotten any indication

An enormous unconventional arsenal. Syria's chemical weapons stockpile is thought to be massive. One of only eight nations that is not a member of the Chemical Weapons Convention -- an arms control agreement that outlaws the production, possession, and use of chemical weapons -- Syria has a chemical arsenal that includes sev

November 5 update Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 11:22:50 +0000 5 November, 2013 Article 1. The National Interest Diplomacy Redux: Kerry's Opportunity, Obama's Test Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. Article 2. Bloomberg Israel Pushed Iran to the Table, Says Hagel Jeffrey Goldberg Article 3. NYT Mr. Kerry

an allies, are walking into a trap of Iran's devising. In this latest phase of the Iran drama, the differences between Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama (which I wrote about here) are mainly concealed from view, but we're now seeing some small fissures. I've been curious to know what others in the O

e to proliferating nuclear threats in its midst. President Obama has much riding on the outcome of these negotiati

differences between Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama (which I wrote about here) are mainly conc

ing a large chemical-weapons arsenal that has been used repeatedly despite international prohibitions would restore the crucial deterrent effect of the Chemical Weapons Convention, undermined by the Syrian regime's lethal chemical munitions attacks on its own civilian neighborhoods. Above all, reliably halting Iran's nuclear

are going to have to regroup. They will be stronger if they work together. And they will be stronger if they have less equivocal backing from the Obama administration, which was quiet for too long. It sent the wrong message in March when it resumed military aid to Egypt — $1.3 billion annually — af

t who think it's still the United States. Under President Obama, U.S. grand strategy has been at best incoherent,

ield." Beyond the intelligence services there is little hard and fast detail on Syria's chemical weapons programme. Unlike Libya, which had signed the Chemical Weapons Convention and was in the process of dismantling its stocks when Muammar Gaddafi's regime collapsed, Syria has not joined the convention and thus has never m