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September 26, 2009, 2:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal's rejection of the Obama administration's Middle East approach was a lot more comprehensive than a blunt refusal to improve relations with Israel to help restart peace talks. debkafile's Washington sources report that in closed-door talks with US leaders, including secretary of state ...
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September 25, 2009, 4:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Deputy US army chief, Gen. James Cartwright and defense secretary Robert Gates amplified President Barack Obama's statement on the US missile shield in East Europe in Washington Thursday, Sept. 17, by announcing that a new and better anti-missile missile system would be deployed in Israel and the Caucasus.
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September 25, 2009, 8:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the Afghanistan war, leaked to the US media, that without extra troops within the next year on top of the 66,000 already fighting there, the eight-year conflict "will likely result in mission ...
After dropping Poles, Czechs, Obama places Israel in fourth place on his scale of defense priorities
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September 23, 2009, 12:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
Senior US army chief Gen. Cartwright placed Israel in fourth place on America's scale of defense priorities - below "our NATO allies," as part of US president Barack Obama's decision to abandon the anti-Iran missile shield in East Europe. Defense minister Ehud Barak, overreaching himself to line up with the ...
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September 22, 2009, 8:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
As debkafile reported last week, US president Barack Obama will host Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at UN headquarters in New York Tuesday, Sept. 22. But because Abbas refused to soften his ultimatum for a prolonged settlement construction freeze, the tripartite summit will ...
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September 22, 2009, 11:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama's reviewed and revamped policy steps for the Middle East, including Iran - compiled after a series of false starts - are finally ready to go. But will they work?
Still under tight wraps, Obama's revised program for the region's crises got its first world airing in ... 
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September 21, 2009, 4:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US will join other major powers in seeking an early meeting with Iran although Tehran's refusal to discuss its nuclear program was described by Washington officials as "disappointing."
An Israeli general warned Israel faces its most dangerous existential threat since Yom Kippur War, as Russia and France spearhead an ... 
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September 20, 2009, 8:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
In the last 24 hours, by rare coincidence, two Islamic extremist leaders have shown public contempt for US president Barack Obama: Iran stands by its opposition to nuclear dialogue and al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden in an apparently new audio tape says Obama is "powerless" to end the Afghan war.
Sunday, ...
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September 14, 2009, 12:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US chief envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Glyn Davis, said Wednesday, Sept. 9 that ongoing enrichment activity is moving Iran "closer to a dangerous and destabilizing possible breakout capacity." Davis spoke of "serious concerns" in Washington that Iran is now either very near or already has enough ...
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September 14, 2009, 9:02 AM (GMT+02:00)
US State Department spokesman, Philip Crowley had only this to say to Iran's long-awaited "proposals" package Thursday night, Sept. 10: It's not really responsive to our core concern, which is Iran's nuclear ambitions," he said, adding: The measures do not address the status of Iran's nuclear program.
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September 14, 2009, 8:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Obama administration early Wednesday Sept 9 decided to schedule a tripartite US-Israeli-Palestinian summit at UN center in New York for Sept 22, debkafile's Washington sources report, the day before the US president meets Russian president Dmitry Medvedev at the UN General Assembly.
The three leaders will declare ... 
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September 12, 2009, 1:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu drew a fast rebuke from Washington for his move to blunt vocal criticism from his pro-settlement Likud party by promising to approve hundreds of new homes on the West Bank ahead of a deal with Washington on a temporary construction moratorium.
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September 8, 2009, 3:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
In view of new information about Iran and North Korea's underground nuclear facilities, the US Air Force has asked to speed up the delivery of 10 to 12 giant Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker buster bombs, according to Air Force Lt. Gen. Mark Shackelford.
Unusually, debkafile's military sources ... 
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September 7, 2009, 12:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
The main conclusions of state comptroller Michah Lindenstrauss's report, published Thursday, Sept. 3, do not address intelligence and political realities and will therefore not affect the US decision never to release Jonathan Pollard from the life sentence without parole given him in 1985 for spying for Israel, or ease his ...
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September 5, 2009, 10:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
According to the Warsaw newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Washington plans to scrap its plans to deploy anti-missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic for defense against attacks from Iran. In deference to adamant opposition from Moscow, the Obama administration, says an unnamed US official, is looking at alternatives including deploying ...
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September 3, 2009, 8:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Obama administration signalled a new mood of compromise on settlement construction just ahead of the key talks in New York between Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak and prime minister's adviser Yitzhak Molcho and US envoy George Mitchell Tuesday, June 30.
debkafile's political analysts attribute this change to ... 
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August 31, 2009, 9:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
A high-ranking US source told debkafile Wednesday night, Aug. 26, that some areas of understanding could be said to have come out of the four-hour meeting between British prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US Middle East envoy George Mitchell earlier in London. He put it this way: The ...
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August 28, 2009, 7:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Middle East and Washington sources do not expect anything much to come of the conversation Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US Middle East envoy George Mitchell hold in London Wednesday, Aug. 28 - although the two governments are close to accord on a settlement standstill.
This ... 
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August 26, 2009, 10:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
US Middle East envoy George Mitchell and Yitzhak Molcho, special adviser to Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, are tying up the last ends of an understanding on West Bank settlement construction between the Obama administration and Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, debkafile's Washington sources disclose.
They agree to disagree ...
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August 18, 2009, 11:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly tracks the latest back-stage twists in US presidential Barack Obama's fortunes as Middle East peace champion. Will assigning the Levant to secretary of state Hillary Clinton crack this deadlock open?
Answers to this and other conundrums were provided in the latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly issue out last Friday. To subscribe ... |
