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What Obama Really Thinks About the Surge

Dec 11, 2009
The president believes his Afghanistan surge will most likely create the conditions to bring the greatest number of U.S. troops home at the earliest possible date, a senior official said.The president believes his Afghanistan surge will bring the greatest number of troops home at the earliest possible date, a senior official said.

Rabin Turns in His Grave

Nov 20, 2009
Uri Avnery remembers Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat and the historic Oslo agreement that has since turned to mush. "The public memory," Avnery warns, "is trying nowadays to obliterate" Rabin's "inner revolution" toward peace with the Palestinians.

Déjà Vu in Annapolis

Nov 30, 2007
Haven't we been here before? Isn't Annapolis just a repeat of the White House lawn and the Oslo agreement, a series of pious claims and promises in which two weak men, Messrs. Abbas and Olmert, even use the same words of Oslo.