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Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Israeli Arab activist confesses to spying for Hezbollah - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Israeli Arab activist confesses to spying for Hezbollah - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

The Israeli's have one of the best counterintelligence programs running.  This is why I hate it when groups claim to represent their people...if they were representing their people, there would be no traitors...lucky it is working out for Israel at this time. Hopefully it is not going the other way either.   

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Fidel Castro and Israel's Right to Exist - Jeffrey Goldberg - International - The Atlantic

Fidel Castro and Israel's Right to Exist - Jeffrey Goldberg - International - The Atlantic

This is nice but what I'm concerned about is what kind of support is Israel giving to Cuba. Strategically, what does this mean? Is this a true source of diplomacy?

It would not surprise me if Israel is using Cuba and Jeffrey Goldberg as an active measure. Not that I am disagreeing with it but what is the end game...better Israeli exposure in an ever increasing hostile world?

According to Goldberg himself, Israel looks at global politics as a 0-sum game or realpolitik view (which again, based on its past with its neighbors is warranted). If that is so, how will this help? Does Castro really have that much influence in the third world, then in turn to other terrorists/supporters?

I will be following this closely; also how this possible Israeli/Cuba sentiment will affect US foreign policy. President Obama did say he wants better relations with Cuba, even if that means a little bit of trade and an easier ability for families to see one another, it is very possible this can go further.

This all could just be Castro's one last hooray as his mortality may have just been realized (not unlike Kim Jong across the pond).

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

UAE concerned over Brodsky release - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

UAE concerned over Brodsky release - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

Who said the UAE hates Israel?

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic on Colbert Report

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Really basic.  He has stirred up a lot of controversy over his articles in The Atlantic on this issue.  Thing is, based on history, I don't think Goldberg understands that sanctions don't work.  Pakistan?  North Korea?  India?  I know India is still pissed that we threw heavy sanctions on them for their nuclear "peace" tests, however, the fact is that they HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.  Once you have nuclear weapons, all threats change.  You end up in a delicate balancing act where you basically let countries shift global power.  

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant a small threat to Israel, for now - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant a small threat to Israel, for now - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

The biggest threat is the excess fuel. Russia doesn't have the best track record when it comes to keeping an eye on the waste. At the same time, neither does the IAEA, based solely on their own politics. All hell will break loose the second even a kilogram of waste is lost.