Headlines for 09-02-07

Iran 'reaches key nuclear goal' Iran has met a key target for its nuclear programme and now has 3,000 centrifuges enriching uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said.


UK general attacks US Iraq policy


IAEA-Iran Resolving Outstanding Questions


Peres: Suspicion over Israeli nukes is good deterrent Regarding whether Israel would join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Peres responded: "Well, that?s another story. Israel never said we should detonate a nuclear bomb in the Middle East, but people are suspicious. And if the suspicion is a deterrent, it?s good enough. We are satisfied with the suspicion. We don?t want anything more."


US Poverty Data Raise New Questions About Cost of War


The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy Reviewed by Max Hastings ?Although we deplore the Palestinians? reliance on terrorism and are well aware of their own contribution to prolonging the conflict, we believe their grievances are genuine and must be addressed. We also believe that most Americans would support a different approach . . . if they had a more accurate understanding of past events and present conditions.?


Militants try to flee Lebanon camp, 31 killed


Lebanon PM welcomes end of siege Thousands of people flocked to the camp after news of the end of the siege broke.


Bush Plans War on Iran ** Lieberman is closely affiliated with American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. ?AIPAC leverages its power by an alliance with the Christian Right, which has adopted a bizarre ideology of ?Christian Zionism,?? according to University of Michigan professor Juan Cole. ?It holds that the sooner the Palestinians are ethnically cleansed, the sooner Christ will come back. Without millions of these Christian Zionist allies,? Cole added, ?AIPAC would be much less influential and effective.?


BMD Focus: Israel's BMD two-front war The Jerusalem Post reported Aug. 24 that the country's Air Defense Forces were also carrying out exercises with the U.S. armed forces "in an effort to increase coordination between the two countries and to prepare for the possibility that Washington will send U.S. missile defense systems to Israel if and when they are needed."


Inside Track: Stifling the Debate? Mearsheimer and Walt pay special attention to the events of 2002, when the Bush Administration?supported by neoconservatives, the Christian Right and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)?advanced its argument for war with Iraq. The authors believe that just when ?one would have expected the United States to focus laser-like on al-Qaeda, the author of 9/11, the Administration chose to invade a deteriorating country that had nothing to do with the attacks.?


A New Motto for America Isolationism, as defined by George Washington, is an exceedingly good policy. Washington warned us in his "Farewell Address" to steer clear of entangling alliances, foreign quarrels and feuds. They don't concern us, he said. Our only concerns, vis-à-vis foreign powers, should be friendship and commerce. We should treat all countries equally, granting neither favors nor trying to harm anyone.