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In Russia, Clinton to Meet on Arms

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Mark Landler - Mar. 18 (News Report) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Moscow on Thursday to meet Russian leaders and try to push negotiations across the finish line.

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News Analysis: Risks and Opportunities in Fight With Israel

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Mark Landler - Mar. 17 (News Analysis) - A dispute could shore up President Obama’s credibility as a Middle East peacemaker by showing that he has the fortitude to push Israelis and Palestinians toward an agreement.

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Why Iran smiles on Jerusalem clashes

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Scott Peterson - Mar. 17 (News Analysis) - Iran is closely watching the unfolding crisis between Israel and the United States over Israeli settlements – and Jerusalem clashes with Palestinians that injured more than 100 today – for ways to rejuvenate its diminished influence in the Middle East.

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U.S. envoy's Israel trip on hold as diplomatic crisis deepens

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Barak Ravid - Mar. 16 (News Report) - A visit to Israel by U.S. special peace envoy George Mitchell is on hold pending an Israeli response to a series of American demands, Army radio reported on Tuesday. Mitchell had been due to leave Washington for Israel early on Monday but will

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Israel envoy: U.S. ties at their worst in 35 years - Haaretz

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Barak Ravid - Mar. 15 (News Report) - Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has told the country's diplomats there that U.S.-Israeli relations face their worst crisis in 35 years, despite attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office to project a sense of "business as usual"

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Biden’s embarrassment is not the whole story

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Mark Perry - Mar. 14 (News Analysis) - There are important and powerful lobbies in America: the NRA, the American Medical Association, the lawyers -- and the Israeli lobby. But no lobby is as important, or as powerful, as the U.S. military. While commentators and pundits might reflect that Joe Biden's trip to Israel has forever shifted America's relationship with its erstwhile ally in the region, the real break came in January, when David Petraeus sent a briefing team to the Pentagon with a stark warning: America's relationship with Israel is important, but not as important as the lives of America's soldiers. Maybe Israel gets the message now.

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Clinton Slams Israel's Settlement Plans: 'Deeply Negative Signal'

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Matthew Lee - Mar. 12 (News Report) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his government's announcement this week of new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, calling it "a deeply negative signal" for the Mideast peace process and ties with the U.S. The State Department said Clinton spoke to Netanyahu by phone for 43 minutes to vent U.S. frustration with Tuesday's announcement that cast a pall over a visit to Israel by Vice President Joe Biden and endangered indirect peace talks with the Palestinians that the Obama administration had announced just a day earlier.

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Despite Opposition, Israel Pushes Forward With Settlements

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - Mar. 10 (News Report) - Joe Biden's peace-building trip to the Middle East took a bad turn on Tuesday after Israel announced that it was going forward with plans to build 1,600 new homes in a contested part of East Jerusalem.

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Biden calls for 'viable' Palestinian state

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Rory McCarthy - Mar. 10 (News Report) - The US vice-president, Joe Biden, has said the Palestinians deserve a "viable" independent state with contiguous territory, hoping to reassure them of America's support after Israel announced plans to expand a Jewish neighbourhood on occupied Palestinian land in East Jerusalem

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Coming to Israel, Biden flags U.S. support vs Iran

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Dan Williams - Mar. 08 (News Report) - Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with Iraq's President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad January 23, 2010. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Obama administration has boosted U.S. defense ties to Israel and will close ranks with its ally

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U.S. Aiding Somalia in Its Plan to Retake Its Capital

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Mar. 06 (News Report) - American assistance could be crucial to the effort by Somalia’s government to reassert control over the capital and bring order after two decades of anarchy.

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Obama's Nuclear Posture Review will set tone for U.S. weapons policy

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Mary Beth Sheridan, Walter Pincus - Mar. 06 (News Report) - President Obama's top national security advisers within days will present him with an agonizing choice on how to guide U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the rest of his presidency.

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The Tricky Business Of Defining Genocide

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - By Alan Greenblatt - Mar. 06 (Special Report) - Condemning mass slaughter can be difficult. President Obama has broken his campaign pledge regarding use of the word genocide regarding the 1915 killing of more than 1 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks. Like other leaders, he's found that this term of condemnation carries particular risks.

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Turkey recalls ambassador after US resolution on 'Armenian genocide'

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Yigal Schleifer - Mar. 05 (News Report) - Turkey has recalled its ambassador to Washington after the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives today passed a resolution that described the mass murders of Armenians during World War I as the “Armenian genocide.”

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Rashad Hussain, a Muslim and new U.S. envoy, is bridge between two worlds

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Scott Wilson - Mar. 01 (News Report) - Rashad Hussain, President Obama's new special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, was an avid high school debater in Plano, Tex., where he grew up.

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Afghan Offensive Critical To Obama Strategy, Allies

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - By Jackie Northam - Feb. 23 (News Analysis) - Expectations are high for the military offensive in Marjah, the informal beginning of President Obama new strategy to turn around the increasingly deteriorating situation in the country. Analysts say the Obama administration must show tangible success to keep the American public ? and possibly NATO allies ? on board.

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Analysis: Clinton's sharp words for Iran counter offers of outreach

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Feb. 17 (News Analysis) - Obama administration officials still ritually say they are interested in engagement with Iran. But as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton completed her tour of the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, it seemed clear that the bow to engagement is a mere formality and criticism o...

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EPA's decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions is challenged

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Jim Tankersley - Feb. 13 (News Report) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced late Friday that it would challenge the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, setting the stage for a protracted legal battle with the Obama administration over global warming.

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Iran, democracy and nukes: Fearless or foolhardy?

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Economist - Feb. 11 (News Analysis) - Iran's brittle but brutal regime is being squeezed from within by the relentless protests of the opposition and from without by the threat of more sanctions unless it backs down over its controversial nuclear plans. Yet Iran’s rulers, rather than parrying, sidestepping or giving ground, seem determined to fight on both fronts at once. After months of rising tension they seem to be asking for a double showdown, sooner rather than later.

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Why Yanukovych's Victory Is Good for Ukraine

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Owen Matthews - Feb. 11 (News Analysis) - Yanukovych's victory may actually be good news for Ukraine. For starters, he would have to try hard to do worse than his predecessor, Viktor Yushchenko, under whose rule Ukraine's economy shrank by 15 percent. Yushchenko spent much of his presidential term feuding with former allies like Yulia Tymoshenko, the loser of Sunday's presidential vote. Worse, in his last months in office, Yushchenko splurged on a series of populist spending promises—including a 20 percent hike in pensions—that pumped Ukraine's budget deficit to 4 percent of GDP. As a result, the IMF suspended a badly needed bailout package until after the election. Yanukovych at least warned voters that austerity was coming and has a decent chance of getting the IMF money flowing again.

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Former boy soldier, youngest Guantanamo detainee, heads toward military tribunal

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Peter Finn - Feb. 10 (News Report) - Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was 15 when he allegedly threw a grenade that killed a U.S. Special Forces medic in Afghanistan. Now, more than seven years later, Khadr is drawing the Obama administration into a fierce debate over the propriety of putting a child soldier...

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Opposition and hard-liners get ready for 22 Bahman confrontations

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - Feb. 07 (News Report) - Iran's hard-line government and the green-themed opposition are gearing up for another confrontation Thursday, this time on the 22nd day of the Persian calendar month of Bahman, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. This weekend the Coordinating Council of Reform Front, a coalition that brings together 17 moderate political groups, called on supporters to head to the streets Thursday, traditionally a time of pro-government rallies.

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Gates urges sanctions on Iran as Ahmadinejad orders higher enrichment of uranium

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Craig Whitlock, Thomas Erdbrink - Feb. 07 (News Report) - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Sunday that "there is still time for sanctions and pressure to work" against Iran's nuclear program despite an announcement from Tehran that it would begin production of medium-enriched uranium.

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Foreigners killed in north west Pakistan explosion

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 03 (News Report) - Three schoolgirls were among the dead while 70 people, including another 63 schoolgirls and two US soldiers, were injured in the explosion in Lower Dir.

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Iraq appeals court lifts candidate ban

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Qassim Abdul Zahra - Feb. 03 (News Report) - An Iraqi appeals court Wednesday struck down a ban imposed on hundreds of candidates for suspected ties to Saddam Hussein's regime, possibly allowing them to run in next month's election, an official said.

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