What Difference Does It Make that Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Care Why Terrorists Killed Americans...

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2013/01/25/what-difference-does-it-make-that-hillary-clinton-doesnt-care-why-terrorists-killed-american-officials-in-libya/ Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remark - “What difference does it make?” - regarding how the motive of the terrorists in the attack that killed four men, including a U.S. ambassador and two former...

Israel’s Electoral Shift Unlikely To Boost Peace In Near Term

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130126/DEFREG04/301260020/Israel-8217-s-Electoral-Shift-Unlikely-Boost-Peace-Near-Term TEL AVIV - Contrary to claims of an Israeli electoral shift to more moderate, middle ground, the new government to be formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is projected to retain its right-wing reticence...

Pilgrims or Mercenaries? Iranian Hostages Freed by Free Syrian Army

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/fdd-policy-brief The Free Syrian Army last week released forty seven Iranian citizens and their Syrian interpreter in exchange for 2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government. The exchange of hostages was facilitated through the good...

Pilgrims or Mercenaries? Iranian Hostages Freed by Free Syrian Army

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/fdd-policy-brief The Free Syrian Army last week released forty seven Iranian citizens and their Syrian interpreter in exchange for 2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government. The exchange of hostages was facilitated through the good...

Why the Current U.S. Foreign Policy Debate Doesn’t Make Sense and How to Fix...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/01/a-totally-new-american-foreign-policy.html Something very bad is happening with the U.S. foreign policy debate. Aside from all of the specific problems and bad appointments, the whole discussion is being conducted on the wrong assumptions and context. There is...

The Dangers of Syria’s Bio-Warfare Complex Should Assad Fall: An Interview with Dr. Jill...

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/130225/sec_id/130225 The control of Syria’s unconventional chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction are of vital concern in a troubled Middle East should the Assad regime fall to Sunni supremacist opposition forces. An Algemeiner article...

Why FDI opposes the Hagel nomination

http://iran.org/news/2013_01_10-hagel.html FDI opposes the nomination of Senator Chuck Hagel to become the next Secretary of Defense. For the past 17 years, FDI has championed the pro-freedom movement in Iran, and has argued that helping Iranians to...

Hezbollah training Shiite fighters in Syria – Source

http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=32500 Beirut/London, Asharq Al-Awsat - Syrian Shiite sources confirmed to Asharq Al Awsat that Hezbollah and Iran are intervening in the Syrian crisis in order to “protect” Shiite towns, villages and religious shrines against the...

The twilight of America

http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ae169cb0bf1d8ed85f60ee17a&id=9e9f653b0e&e=6a9f992820 I think this is what is called a slam dunk. Barack Obama has now proposed filling the three positions in the US administration most concerned with the security of the nation and the defence...

PM: Abbas does not seek peace

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3223 What's behind Abbas' new tone? Mahmoud Abbas delivered a speech on Jan. 4, on the anniversary of the founding of Fatah, that may have marked a turning point in the relations between the Palestinian Authority...