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2010, witnessed some of the political discussions that accompanied the project's creation. "This could be a huge, iconic victory for the whole strategy of building Palestine from the bottom up rather than trying to build it at the negotiating table," he says. Its success would p...

other military aspects of the nuclear enterprise. Seizing the Nuclear High Road with Little to Lose Even as he confronts a real bomb in North Korea (very bad options there) and a potential one in Iran (bad options there too), Obama is trying to make good ona longstanding commit...

We had just a few hours to adapt the original plan. Although we’d trained in close-quarters fighting for my plan to attack the officers’ club near Damascus, we'd never had to use that skill in a live mission. Nor had we ever used the Berettas. While we’d disguised ourselves as en...

…le 5. NYT Cheney Says He Urged Bush to Bomb Syria in ’07 Charlie Savage Article ®- | Ma'an News Agency Palestine and Statehood: An historical overview Abdullah Abueid HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024592

Middle East Affairs, and four years later the United Nations envoy, Count Folke Bernadotte. “Why are you so strident,” Shamir asked me, only half-jokingly, after ’'d insisted on joining a government discussion and pressing several intelligence matters. “It’s because I’ve read th...

… by truck in Honduras. “She’s looking at the guts of how we work,” says Dr. Raj Shah, who runs USAID. According to old State hands, Hillary represents some of the better qualities of her predecessors. She has Baker’s obsession with preparation, reaches out like Colin Powell (who...

…s not just the constant travel but also the speed and range of the issues she must master. She finds being secretary of state even more taxing than the 2008 campaign, where she could go on autopilot and give the same speech six times in a day, and had heard all the questions befo...

…rtisers vanished because of their opposition to the Hungarian government, leaving only one print opposition daily. The State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Budapest have remained almost entirely silent about all of this. The compliant new U.S. approach was initially discusse...

…/11 attacks”; 4. Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two of the alleged 9/11 hijackers, whose presence in the United States was concealed from the FBI by CIA officers for months before 9/11. It might sound from these citations that the 9/11 Commission marked a new stage in th...

…der man, whom the girl later identified as Mr. Epstein, might have had inappropriate sexual contact with her. In sworn statements to the police, the 14-year-old and other teenage girls said a friend had arranged for them to visit Mr. Epstein’s home and give him massages, usually...

…public office. After leaving a career in politics, I devoted much of my time to public lectures that took me into every state in the union and much of Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. In 1988, I invested most of the earnings from this lecture circuit acquiring th...

…tor, The Origins Project at ASU Foundation Professor School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 Research Office: _________________ Assistant Origins Office origins.asu.edu I twitter.com/Ikraussl I kra...

…e decade that followed remain vivid in my mind not just for the obvious reason: they secured the survival of the infant state of Israel and saw it into a more assured and independent young adulthood. It was also the time when I grew from a young child —introspective and contempla...

…rity Adminis- tration (SSA) has based federal rights to benefits on whether marital rights exist in the couples current state of residence rather than the state in which they were married. The impact of Windsor on the manner in which federal agencies will treat Social Security be...

…her there was prosecutorial misconduct in the case involving Epstein, who ran a sex pyramid scheme from his Palm Beach estate that targeted scores of underage girls from 2001 to 2006. About 30 members of Congress demanded the probe following a Miami Herald series of stories, "Per...