Epstein Secrets

lk for Newsweek from Washington, D.C. Ankle 2. The National Interest Why Israel Worries Richard L. Russell May 6, 2014 -- Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is momentarily breathing a sigh of relief now that he can blame Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas for scuttling the latest round of pea

inian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas for scuttling the latest round of peace negotiations. Abbas' reconciliation pact with Hamas in Gaza allows Netanyahu to wash his hands of the peace process—because militant EFTA00662702 Hamas will not even acknowledge Israel's right to exist—to focus on more acu

he rapid slide from lawlessness to violence that has claimed the lives of more than sixty people in the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk, Slovyansk, and Odessa in the past week sounds alarms that should be heard more clearly in Western capitals. The strategy Washington and the Europeans have chosen that fo

o when it comes to relative power, Israel enjoys an immense edge, which the Israeli government has no intention of surrendering. For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the "peace process" is not a means to settle differences through compromise or give-and-take. It's a mechanism to enshrine hard-earned Israeli adv

ive-and-take. It's a mechanism to enshrine hard-earned Israeli advantages in perpetuity. Several years ago, in outlining his own "vision of peace," Netanyahu spelled out the implications of this approach. "If we get a guarantee of demilitarization," he remarked, "we are ready to agree to a real peace ag

vival. EFTA00662759 As the date of Ukraine's presidential election, scheduled for May 25, approaches, cities and towns in eastern Ukraine and now Odessa continue to fall victim to the secessionist hysteria, with armed balaclava-wearing men in turn vandalising and occupying office buildings and setti

st 40 percent of Israel's electricity supply has now switched over to natural gas. The opening of Tamar was pronounced "historic" by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office. It was the crucial element in the Netanyahu government's 2010 plan to enable Israel to achieve energy independence in 10 years. But noth

ver to natural gas. The opening of Tamar was pronounced "historic" by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office. It was the crucial element in the Netanyahu government's 2010 plan to enable Israel to achieve energy independence in 10 years. But nothing prepared anyone for the next discovery, dubbed Lev

nly out on the streets [in Crimea], capturing public buildings and military outposts. And it's likely all a part of a larger plan for other places: Odessa, Nikolayev, Kherson. And they'll use the same technique. Some Russian-speaking citizens will appear, put up a Russian flag, and make appeals that t

become a much more religious and stridently ethnocentric country over the years, and it's got to the stage where, he notes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who originally came to power on a platform of rejecting concessions to the Palestinians, is regarded as a moderate conservative. The settler movem

he U.S. government's failure to do anything about it, was undermining U.S. influence elsewhere in the Middle East. But nothing really changes, and Netanyahu and his allies are well aware of this. In 2010, they humiliated Vice-President Joseph Biden by unveiling a plan for new settlements during one of h

nning rampant through the country's industrial heartland. Instead the great prize may be the southwest, an area that includes the Black Sea port of Odessa and gives him a boundary not only with the pro-Russian breakaway Transnistrian statelet, but with NATO and the EU itself. To fan the forces in the