Friday, February 3, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- February 3, 2011



Will Israel Attack Iran? It's Been Asked Before -- L.A. Times

Will Israel attack Iran? The question is everywhere since Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman concluded in the New York Times Magazine: "After speaking with many senior Israeli leaders and chiefs of the military and the intelligence, I have come to believe that Israel will indeed strike Iran in 2012."

It's a very serious question, and not just for Israel and Iran. "Rarely if ever have the stakes been higher," Harvard fellow Chuck Freilich recently opined for the Los Angeles Times:

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

Is Israel preparing to attack Iran?
-- David Ignatius, Washington Post

Potential Iran Military Strike Timing Divides U.S., Israel -- Nicole Gaouette and Jonathan Ferziger, Bloomberg Businessweek

Finish Him: Without international intervention, there's a good chance that Syria's dictator, Bashar al-Assad, could still rule for years. -- Daniel Byman, Foreign Policy

Arab Spring or Islamist Winter?
-- Michael Totten, World Affairs

Deadly Egyptian riots go beyond football -- James Montague, CNN

The Indian aid and jet scandals just prove we are governed by self-righteous idiots -- Abhijit Pandya, Daily Mail

A Leaner NATO Needs a Tighter Focus -- hans Binendijk, New York Times

War in Europe? Not so impossible -- Ovidiu Nahoi, Eurozine

Russian protests – echoes of US civil rights movement -- Leon Aron, Christian Science Monitor

Expect China to Shape the Next Bretton Woods Pact -- Philip Coggan, Bloomberg

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