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Bush’s visit to Israel signaled a message to Israel that was totally suprising. Israeli’s newspaper HAARETZ.com had this to say:"This was an all-clear signal to Israel, a warning to Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and supreme spiritual leader Ali Khamenei, and an announcement to the Democratic Party's leading presidential candidate, Barack Obama, that Bush will make use of his authority until his last day as president to shape a belligerent policy toward Iran. If Obama is elected rather than Republican candidate John McCain, whose positions are identical to those of Bush, the outgoing president is liable to take military action even during the two and a half months between the elections and the inauguration of the new president".
No more appeasement By Haaretz Editorial Less than half a year before the American presidential elections and eight months before he is slated to leave the White House, U.S. President George W. Bush yesterday set a high bar for his successor: to
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The deputy head of the IFF, Mahdi Taj said, "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Seyyed Hassan Khomeini--the grandson of the founder of Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini--have called for the suspension on Ali Karimi to be lifted." The IFF had suspended Karimi from playing in the national team after his remarks against the federation.
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Republican presidential aspirant John McCain's recent criticism of Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama's foreign policy platform exposes contradictions with the George W...Bush and McCain have dismissed Obama's willingness to talk directly with U.S. adversaries like Iran as "negotiation with terrorists and radicals", even though the Bush administration itself has repeatedly talked with "enemies" like Libya, North Korea, and Iran on various occasions throughout Bush's presidency.
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The Israel lobby in the US has managed to veer foreign policy in the Middle East in a direction that has been harmful to the interests of both the US and Israel, co-author of “The Israel lobby and US foreign policy” Stephen Walt said. “The Israel lobby is an interest group like any other interest group in the US.
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In a recent interview with the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, the Republican hopeful claimed that Tehran is committed to 'the destruction of the state of Israel'. He then suggested that the explanation behind keeping a military option for dealing with the Islamic Republic on the table is that 'Iran's threat' is mainly directed toward Israel. "The United States of America has committed itself to never allowing another Holocaust," the Arizona senator said.
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The group is still waiting for Egypt's response regarding clarifications it asked for, the source said. "It's clear to us that Israel is not really interested in a lull, but rather, only wants to buy time," the source said. "Israel will attempt to divert attention away from the embarrassing affairs involving its leaders through escalation in the Gaza Strip.
The men, with their yarmulkes, were packed on the benches downstairs, while upstairs the women, in brightly coloured headscarves, alternated between praying and gossiping. Their chit-chat grew so loud that the rabbi broke off several times to shush them.
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