Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
Israeli Aerostats for India
According to a Strategy Page article, dated 23 January 2009, reproduced in Homeland Security Daily Wire of 16 May 2009, Israel has sold 2 IAI EL/M-2083 ADAR Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Aerostat Systems (balloons and lighter-than-air systems are referred to as Aerostats) to India. India already has 2 EL/M-2083s, and is said to need a total of [...]
Mearsheimer: Saving Israel from Itself
University of Chicago professor, John J. Mearsheimer (author of a celebrated article with Harvard professor, Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby, later written up into a book, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy), has written an important article, Saving Israel from Itself , that is reproduced below from the 18 May 2009 issue of The American [...]
American Likudniks Provide Detailed Options to Israel for Strike on Iran
By enhancing the credibility of a fantastic threat, Netanyahu and his American Likudniks are creating a bargaining chip out of thin air, that Israel will "concede" in return for little or no concession on the two-state solution, that Americans are expected to press on them. Called "the mother of all neo-con institutions," the Center for [...]
Obama’s Likudniks
Events, historians tell us, can be spectacular without being significant. Will Obama’s election as the president of the United States of America spectacular as it has been also be significant? In particular, are we likely to see a significant change in US foreign policy, especially toward the Muslim world? The answer is ‘No’ – largely [...]
On the Day After
This article poses two questions: On the day after US/NATO forces invade and occupy some of Balochistan and Waziristan, ‘What will we say we should have done’, and ‘Why aren’t we doing it now?’ Is this far-fetched? The facts suggest otherwise. Like the US invasion of Iraq, plans for covert operations and military strikes against [...]
