Dissenting Opinion SUSAN SHIRK Although I have no problem with the factual research that has gone into specific sections of the report, I respectfully dissent from what I see as the report’s overall inflated assessment of the current threat of Chinese influence seeking on the U...
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CNN RLK: Those Chinese economists are pleased to see this pressure going on, but China cannot admit that publicly, because that undermines the rejuvenation of China, the strength of the government, the national pride. RLK: We have to understand both sides are speaking to their...
4.2.12 WC: 191694 The Zionism-Racism resolution was followed by a deluge of anti-Israel sentiment in the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the UN Council on Human Rights. At the 1978 session, “several speakers drew a parallel between Zionism and apartheid,” insisting t...
8 reality to portray Fatah as colluding with Israel against the Palestinian people during a confrontation. For its part, Hamas has the support of Islamists in the region, including Shiite Iranians, but that is an explosive mix to base a strategy on. Hamas must break its isolati...
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process that raised as many questions as it answered, as something we could learn from. The second high-point was a couple named David and Leah Zimmerman. Though Mishmar Hasharon, like other kibbutzim, was secular, they introduced us to the Talmud, the ancient compendium of rabb...
Article 3. The Financial Times Why Syria will get away with it Gideon Rachman June 13 2011 -- late last week, Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, launched an offensive of his own. In a speech in Brussels, he dismissed most of America’s European allies as a useless bunch o...
PESSIMISTIC POPULISTS The third challenge today is a widespread loss of confidence in the West about its own systems and future potential. Sluggish growth across the developed world, stagnant incomes for much of the population, rising economic inequality, political gridlock, and...
Via Skype Getty images . T:10 AM RLK: And indeed for the entire economic relationships and standards of living of all people. There are real issues and I think we need to discuss them. But right now, China is sending signals by what it's doing, that it wants to ratchet down the...
information. But in talking with his wartime friends, he realized this kind of low-level intelligence could never address the real need for Israel: to ensure we had early warning if Syria or Lebanon, Jordan or Egypt, were preparing to go to war against us. He began toying with t...
RLK: So Trump recognizes that and he is getting political credit for that — whether people like it or not. There's unlikely to be anything before the midterms, but if President Trump is doing what he's doing, he needs to recognize that these issues that I articulated are really...
priorities, such as political and economic reforms. Israel has long branded the Arab world as tribal and undemocratic, in order to brand itself the only democracy in the Middle East. Well, soon enough it won’t be. Many of its neighbors will soon join the democratic world as deman...
Not surprisingly, growth has stalled. Wages have fallen. Productivity has stagnated. For 95% of the male population, real earnings are lower today than they were in 1973. Is there any wonder many of these men vote for Donald Trump — a “strong man” who promises to do somethin...
? began demanding a constitutional monarchy or even the outright ouster of the Al-Khalifa family. Many protesters saw these as reasonable responses to years of empty promises to give the majority Shiites a real share of power—and to the vicious government crackdown that had kill...
response, or an American one, on an incomparably greater scale. It would also totally isolate Saddam internationally and end any chance of peeling off Arab support for the Americans. It was my nearly 100-per-cent caveat that prompted a tense debate within the cabinet. Even if th...