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s The Daily Beast, "because a bombing will help them put their internal problems aside." Martin, who spent most of his 25-year career at the CIA in the Middle East, argues that some clerics and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders, confronted with a discontented and restless population, are looking for

war might break out—and that the hawks will get their way— has nonetheless become substantial. The U.S. has just withdrawn the last troops from one Middle Eastern country where it fought a highly costly war of choice with a rationale involving weapons of mass destruction. Now we find ourselves on the precipic

e, with the occupation of the Palestinian territories—the subjugation of Palestinian men, women, and children—that has lasted for forty-five years. Peter Beinart, in a forthcoming and passionately argued polemic, "The Crisis of Zionism," is just the latest critic to point out that a profoundly anti-democrati

olding chaos in their midst, why should the United States, some 7000 miles from Iraq spill its blood and treasure in another futile quest to remake the Middle East for them? A futile quest that has over the last decade chewed up the minds and bodies of 56,000 brave American soldiers, including some 4,700 kille

c 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 Allies to Forge Their Own Destinies Sarwar Kashmeri Article I. NYT ISIS and SISI

76195 survive war with Iran. In 2012, Mr Obama strikes a much flintier leader on the world stage. If he can build "strategic trust" with China in the Middle East, the habit could take hold elsewhere. One might say that the road to Xanadu goes through Tehran and Jerusalem. If he cannot, then he faces a tough

erje Rod-Larsen Sent: Mon 11/19/2012 11:32:04 PM Subject: November 19 update 19 November, 2012 Article 1. The Daily Beast Israel's Fatal Game Peter Beinart Aitic NYT Brigades That Fire on Israel Are Showing a New Discipline Jodi Rudoren Article 3. Foreign Affairs Hamas' Miscalculation Barak Mend

e Middle East. We created reality; others watched, baffled, paralyzed, afraid. In 1989, Americans gloated as the Soviet Union, our former rival for Middle Eastern supremacy, retreated ignominiously from the region. When Saddam Hussein tried to challenge us from within, we thrashed him in the Gulf War. Throug

Makovsky Wall Street Journal Israel Will Never Have Peace Bret Stephens Article 3. Article 4. The Daily Beast Israel's Palestinian Arab Spring Peter Beinart Article 5. The Weekly Standard How Did this Nakba Day Differ from All Other Nakba Days? Elliott Abrams Article 6. Article 7. Wall Street Journa