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Iran threat pushing Arabs closer to normalization with Israel
President Obama and President Abbas Iran threat pushing Arabs closer to normalization with Israel By Akiva Eldar …Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa notes that peace is not a light...
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U.S. estimates Iran unable to produce nuke before 2013
The systematic pattern is of intelligence reports that keep pushing back the date at which Iran is said to be able to produce a nuclear weapon. My concern is how much political...
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Get on the Right Side of History
(A version of this essay was recently published in The Jerusalem Report.) Across the world in the last 40 years politically organized religious forces have played an increasingly...
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Ineffective tightening of sanctions on Iran
This article originally appeared on the Al Jazeeera English website on Dec. 12, 2011. You can view it by clicking here . Washington, DC - There is a long record of the grim...
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The Iranian Yalda And The Fateful Choice Of Light Over Darkness
Just a few days ago was the longest night of the year. Another way of looking at is that this was night in which the tide of darkness began to turn back in favor of light. Bunched...
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SECRET COMMUNICATIONS SHOULD BE ABOUT MORE THAN THREATS
We are facing the beginnings of a Cuban Missile Crisis moment in the Straits of Hormuz, and without the proper communications system to avoid a catastrophe, as David Ignatius has...
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Could A Nuclear Iran Bring About More Stability Not Less?
There is a pervasive fear that is being spread by American, Israeli and Sunni Gulf leaders that the most dangerous development in modern history will be the capacity of Iran to...
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Could a Nuclear Iran Bring About More Stability, Rather Than Less?
Folks please see my essay on Iran, Israel, U.S. and a very different view of nuclear standoff and future possibilities, finally published in Huffiington Post here and reproduced...
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Interview with CNN: Ancient blueprint for Middle East peace touring U.S.
Washington (CNN) – An ancient Persian symbol of freedom, tolerance and coexistence has joined documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the...
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Troublemaking Powerful Women of the Middle East: What Gives With Their...
I think it is interesting that in just a few days we heard from the daughter of Emir of Qatar that MENA radical intervention into Syria was turning into a ruination of a...
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The Promise and Peril of Gestures of Peace
I was about to publish the piece below one day ago. It was based on a press conference of the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday, July 21, 2013. But just two days later, the same...
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Nonviolence Goes Mainstream: A Surprising Result of the Syrian Tragedy – Part I
Part I: The Failure of the Military Option It may seem odd to speak of nonviolence in the same sentence as Syria, one of the bloodiest and most tragic destructions of a state and...
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