...sparking a huge increase in the price of oil. After meeting with Yang in London last week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton publicly raised this argument. "China will be under a lot of pressure to...

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...Iran if Israel attacked Iran's nuclear installations. "Do not test the resolve of Syria, you Israelis, you know that war this time will reach your cities. Go back to your senses and seek the road of peace,"...

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...continued to bomb Hezbollah installations. The conflict intensified and thousands of Lebanese civilians sought to flee the area and find safe refuge from the fighting. By 14 April, 745 people were occupying the...

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... bombs Iran's nuclear installations? No. Israel, the US and European powers will become increasingly alarmed in 2010 by signs that Iran is close to developing a nuke. Iran will make significant progress, for...

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...in 1967. Modern ship installations generally involve intercept stations in mobile vans, which can be put onto the deck of a warship, which can protect itself as the Pueblo and Liberty could not. Why this...

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...attempt to convince the Chinese to support strict sanctions on Tehran if it does not accept Western proposals for its nuclear program. The Israeli officials said the US had informed Israel about Mr Obama's...

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...reactors if Israel attacks Iranian nuclear installations. Analysts said the test appeared aimed at dissuading Israel from launching a pre-emptive military attack on any of Iran's nuclear facilities, which...

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...States or Israel. </p><p>Officials say the plant won't be operational for another 18 months and would produce uranium enrichment levels up to 5 percent, suitable only for peaceful purposes. Weapons-grade...

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...by Christmas, Israel will have to attack its nuclear installations. It may be assumed that Sneh was not just guessing on his own initiative. Another sign of the growing military tensions surrounding the Iranian...

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...expert and author of a book called The Secret War with Iran. Israel is convinced that Russia, and perhaps even China, will now have to drop their longstanding opposition to more punitive sanctions in...

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...to think of attacking the Iranian nation. . . . Our armed forces will cut the hand off anyone in the world before it pulls the trigger against the Iranian nation." One of his harshest critics and a supporter...

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...week that Israel had a sovereign right to decide what were its best interests. Sarkozy urged against any military action. "A unilateral attack (by Israel) would be an absolute catastrophe," he told...

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This proposition is knocked over by the Washington think tank's report and the briefing delivered to the Israeli cabinet by Israel's intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, Sunday, March 8. Both confirm that...

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...buildings that contained no weapons. The groups included the Israel section of Amnesty International, B'Tselem, Gisha and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Israeli Jews are firmly behind the...

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...nuclear installation. "I think there was sufficient evidence that they were developing a site using a nuclear … or using a blueprint that was similar to the North Korean model," he said. As for Israel's strategy...

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...at the Jewish state will "fly over our heads." The region's Arabs are (too) secretly rooting for an Israeli attack to end their nuclear-Iran nightmares. By contrast, some Americans, like Zbigniew...

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...on the pretext it was a nuclear facility. At the time Al-Assad told the BBC: "If we replied to Israel militarily we would be working in accordance with the Israeli agenda. We have other means, such as the...

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...rescue if it does so. The budget line for defense stands at $708 billion, 53 percent of discretionary spending, eight times more than the next largest item, health and human services. Does that reflect U.S....

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...mill when it denied that it had bombed the vital civilian installation. Last week, Israel submitted a document titled "Gaza Operation Investigations: An Update," on the eve of Ban's report to the General...

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