Thursday, August 06, 2009
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Global Gold Miners Gaining from Lower Costs
Listed gold mining companies are benefitting from lower costs, and their share prices show it. Click here for the story.US Republicans Condemn Obama's Israel Policy
Iran's Nuclear Program Threatens the World
Dore Gold, Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations, has authored a must-readessay on the Iranian nuclear threat. Gold writes:Defying both history and logic, the idea that the West should diplomatically engage with Tehran still commands an important following.
Despite the massive waves of demonstrators across Iran who charged their government with rigging the June 12 presidential elections, there still are officials in the Obama ad- ministration who seem to believe that engagement with the Islamic Republic should "remain on the table," as columnist Roger Cohen put it in the New York Times Magazine this week. Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, agrees: "We would like very much that soon we will have the possibility to restart multilateral talks with Iran on the important nuclear issues," he said on June 24.
But they're wrong, just as they have been from the start. Indeed, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about sticking to engagement. The main one is that it has already been tried -- and utterly failed. Iran has consistently used the West's willingness to engage as a delaying tactic, a smoke screen behind which Iran's nuclear program has continued undeterred and, in many cases, undetected.
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Friday, 7 August 2009
U.S. Republican leaders say the Obama administration's policy on Israel ignores the Iranian threat to annihilate the Jewish State. Click here for the story.
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