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It’s stupid, dangerous and wrong to demand Iran’s humiliation
Whatever he tells the UN, Rouhani will not agree to give up nuclear weapons to please his country’s nuclear-armed enemies. And when it’s clear that he won’t, it’s his enemies who will face humiliation. I don’t believe Rouhani means it when he says Iran doesn’t want nuclear weapons. And even if he does, I don’t believe…
By
Larry Derfner
September 27, 2013
‘Psychobibi’: A look deep inside the mind of the prime minister
In the beginning of his 2004 book on the psychology of world leaders, political psychologist Jerrold M. Post explains his guiding question: When does the personality of the leader affect political behavior? According to Matthew Kalman and Matt Rees, the self-anointed (and self-published) maverick authors of the e-book Psychobibi (DeltaFourth, 2013) the answer is simple:…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
May 31, 2013
Emergency Committee for Israel calls for U.S. war on Iran now
Cutting-edge neocon group runs scare ad “It’s Time to Act” in presidential election campaign. It doesn’t get any more blatant than this: The Emergency Committee for Israel, founded by the aristocrats of the “Commentary crowd,” the original Republican Likudniks, is now screaming for Obama to attack Iran. ECI put out a press release yesterday announcing that “in light of yet another failed round of nuclear talks with…
By
Larry Derfner
June 23, 2012
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Lovely summer for a war
One of these lazy, sunny days, we’re likely to hear on the news that Israel has just bombed Iran. The question of whether Israel will soon attack Iran is one of those things where your senses completely deceive you. The more Israeli politicians and generals talk about it, the closer it seems, and the more fearful you become – but the bombast is…
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Larry Derfner
June 15, 2012
And the peace camp stood silent
Polls say most Israelis oppose Netanyahu on Iran, but there hasn’t been a protest, a press conference or even a bumper sticker to give them a voice The world is worried more and more that Israel is going to attack Iran and start a Middle Eastern war, yet the Israeli peace camp, which used to put hundreds of thousands of people in the streets to protest war…
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Larry Derfner
March 16, 2012
Security expert: Attacking Iran isn’t worth it
The public doesn’t know it, but ex-Mossad chief Meir Dagan and his opposition to war with Iran have company Retired army general Nathan Sharony, head of the Council for Peace and Security, which includes over 1,000 former high-ranking security officials with dovish views, says the positions of ex-Mossad chief Meir Dagan and ex-army intelligence head Shlomo Gazit against an attack on Iran are “acceptable” to him. Retired…
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Larry Derfner
February 6, 2012
200,000 missiles aimed at Israel. None fired. Why?
At any given time, about 200,000 missiles are aimed at Israel, Aviv Cochavi, chief of army intelligence, told the VIPs today at the Herzliya Conference. Two-hundred thousand missiles – another important fact that will go in one ear of the Israeli public and out the other. It plays havoc with a basic national conviction, so it will be discarded.…
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Larry Derfner
February 2, 2012
Tenderizing the opposition to war with Iran
Barak/Netanyahu – they are “one hand” – are presenting an Israeli attack as an inevitability. It seems the die has been cast – Netanyahu and Barak have decided to bomb Iran in a matter of months, as Ronen Bergman concluded in the New York Times Magazine – and now it’s time to close ranks around the decision. This is my…
By
Larry Derfner
January 27, 2012
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