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H1 Los Angeles Times Despite troop buildup, security in Iraq flounders Some may point to signs of progress, but forces have yet to establish safe haven, even for themselves.

Washington Post Iraq: Go Deep or Get Out By Stephen Biddle, Centrist policies appeal to the American public but do not fit the military reality of Iraq.

In Republican Party, Growing Friction on Iraq GOP leadership's use of a parliamentary tactic encourages a growing number of dissenters to rally, seek new ways to force president's hand.

Benchmarks To Measure Iraq Progress

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In or Out We must not kid ourselves: our real choices in Iraq are either all in or all out

White House calls meeting on al Qaeda threat...

Brookings America and the Use of Force: Sources of Legitimacy Ivo H. Daalder and Robert Kagan Full Paper (PDF; 103 KB)

Carnegie Endowment - Rethinking Western Strategies Toward Pakistan: An Action Agenda for the United States and Europe By Frederic Grare July 2007 Full Text (PDF)

Engineers as Counterspies: How the Greek Cellphone System Was Bugged

Soli Özel Without Justice and Order, An Empire Cannot Rule

The world’s World Bank problem, Robert Wade

Jerusalem Post IDF: War with Syria would be 10 times worse than Hizbullah Says war could erupt due to "miscalculation" in form of terror attack; MI identifying targets for Iran strike; predicts bomb by 2009.

Ha’aretz – Military Intelligence: Iran will cross nuclear threshold by 2009 MI says Hezbollah is not currently interested in fighting, Syria readying for war but not seeking one

PM to Assad: Open talks, without U.S. mediation

Yoel Marcus: This summer make peace not war with Syria

Asia Times Neo-cons try to rally, bully RepublicansDoubts about the effectiveness of President George W Bush's "surge" strategy in Iraq have some skeptical senior Republican senators fleeing to the other side of the aisle on war-related issues. Neo-con hawks have their talons bared trying to keep them and other doubters in line. - Jim Lobe

Time Inside Israel's Secret Talks with Hamas

Another conflict in the offing?
Gulf News, By Amir Taheri

Iran's Regional Ambitions: Implications for Israel, Iraq, and the ...
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Amir Taheri

The Economist Pakistan The last battle A bloody end to the Islamabad siege

Asia Times Thirsty in the land between the rivers
Iraq, dominated by the great Tigris and Euphrates rivers, has plenty of water, yet it's dying of thirst. After four years of occupation and many years of sanctions before that, Iraq suffers severe shortages of electricity and fuel needed to run pumps. As one consequence, about 70% of the people live without safe drinking water. - Ali al-Fadhily

Financial Times US mortgage problem fears spark sell-off Fears of further problems in the US mortgage industry and the broader economy triggered a sell-off in credit markets as investors sought safe havens

COMMENT: Why the west must regulate China's exports Beijing lacks the domestic and social foundations necessary to prevent serious safety breaches, writes Jeffrey Garten.

Olmert signals readiness for Syria talks Damascus may use third party

SyriaComment Will Syria and Israel talk, fight or wait?

The Times Pope: Protestant faith is 'not a proper Church' Anglican leaders react with dismay after the Protestant and Orthodox faiths are dismissed as 'defective' in a Vatican document

Analysis: Musharraf's stark choice after siege The Pakistani President is fighting four battles against internal dissent - and the mosque siege could determine his fate

Wall Street Journal Our Own Worst Enemy We're making three key mistakes in the war on terror. By ALEXANDER M. HAIG, JR. The recent Hamas conquest of Gaza is a defeat for the US that goes well beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, giving Islamic terrorists a base in the Mediterranean.

Moving Forward in Iraq The "surge" is working. Will Washington allow the current progress to continue? By KIMBERLY KAGAN

Independent Leading article: No compromise on independence (Kosovo)

The Economist An unwelcome rise The risk from higher oil prices

Governance Matters VI: Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2006
Source: World Bank Policy Research Working Papers Full Report (PDF; 778 KB)

William Arkin Is a Bigger Army a Better Army?

Foreign Policy Ahmadinejobless

Der Spiegel Talking to Terrorists: Could Back Channel Diplomacy Prevent the Worst?

Europe's Man in Washington: EU Chooses Dominique Strauss-Kahn to Head up IMF

H2 WSJ Kurdistan Showdown A Turkish raid could spark a war between a NATO member state and the U.S.-led Coalition. Here's how to avert a crisis between the U.S. and Turkey. By ILAN BERMAN

Another Iraq Front The authorities in Iraq can shut the PKK down, as they have in the past, and the U.S., for its own good, should push them to do so. By ROBERT P. FINN

Morgan Stanley Turkey Are Voters Rational? Empirical evidence suggests that the voters have occasionally made systematic errors.

The Times Turkish PM refuses to rule out Iraq invasion Turkey says it will not act against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq before elections, but might in future

Turkish Think-Tank Looks at Strategic Importance of Caucasus

EurasiaNet Turkey: Kurdish Politicians Strive to Seize Historic Opportunity in Upcoming Election BY YIGAL SCHLEIFER

Daniel Estulin Turkısh electıons and Bılderberg

Averting a Crisis with Turkey in Kurdistan

CSM Turkish women struggle to get elected Before the July 22 legislative vote, women's groups push for more equity on male-dominated ballots.

Turkish Opposition Accepts Compromise on President

Google News KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect BBC Monitoring

Sami KOHEN Türkmenleri kim, neden hedef alıyor?

Ahmet Taşgetiren Öcalan’ın bugünkü konumu ne?

Cross-border operation delayed until after elections

Tough questions weigh on gov't over incursion

MHP, Öcalan'ın idamı anlayışına sahiptir

DTP'li iki başkana inceleme

Emin Pazarcı Eyleme seçim molası

No Turkish Invasion, For Now

'ABD askeri Türkiye'ye' iddiası

ABD: Güneydoğu'da operasyon olağan

WSJ "PKK terörü için harekete geçmeli"

DTP'li iki başkana PKK incelemesi

Report: Iran's dirty tactics to spread problems to Kurdistan

New book: The Turkish translation of Arabisation of Kerkuk

PKK yük trenine saldırdı

TÜRKİYE’Yİ GÖZETLİYORUZ..

Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU "Gözleriyle" gördü, şimdi ABD'ye kefil

İsrafil KUMBASAR AKP, DTP'liler ile bir koalisyon kurup Apo'yu affeder mi?

Nasuhi Güngör Terörle beraber yaşamak

İlnur Çevik Iraqis seem to have swallowed the bait

PKK'yı öven DTP'li başkanlara soruşturma

DTP'li Tuğluk: Türban serbest bırakılmalı

Birleşmiş Milletler'de skandal: PKK parti, Öcalan genel sekreter

ABD basınından, Beyaz Saray'a 'PKK konusunda adım at' çağrısı

'ABD askerleri Türk üslerine çekilebilir'

'Erbil çuvalı' haberine çifte yalanlama geldi

Kurdistance: The State of Kurdish Activism Global Voices Online

Conference on Federalism Opens in Northern Iraq

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 10 Jul 07

Arab investors like Turkey

Four "Terrorists" Surrender to Security Forces in Southeastern Turkey

Iraqi Kurdish Officials Criticize Human Rights Watch Report

Iraqi Kurdish Officials Concerned About Alleged US Proposal to Arm Tribes

Türkiye'yi ikna için PKK'lıları yakalayın

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL

Bombalı araçla saldırı ve acı insan hikayeleri

Google News Greece Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Press ABHaber

Pre electoral politics and the EU : Where do we stand? Sinan ÜLGEN

Mensur Akgün Türkiye örneği Türkiye’yi AB’ye taşıyabilir

Servet Yıldırım Sarkozy bir taşla iki kuş vurdu

Greek-Turkish cooperation to amount to $5 bln

FT Largest Cypriot party quits government The Cyprus communist party, Akel, said it would field its own candidate in next year’s presidential election in a move that improves the chances of reviving UN-sponsored talks on re-unifying the island.

Talat to meet Papadopoulos to break deadlock in talks

US calls on Turkey, Armenia to normalize ties

FT WORLD NEWS: Cypriot communists to contest poll

Papadopoulos proposes meeting with Talat over reunification

AKEL-Papadopulos ortaklığı sona erdi

Financial Times: Hristofyas Kıbrıs görüşmelerini başlatabilir

Talat'tan Rum lidere cevap: Bir kez değil; sürekli görüşelim

Istanbul hosts an interesting conference this week Barçın YINANÇ

EUX.TV - FEATURE: From Turkey's dreams of empire to the energy Great Game
By Chris Wade, dpa

Turks denounce new immigration rules

BTC offers small grants for environmental projects

Number of Refugees From Iraq in Turkey Growing - UN Official

Amanda Akçakoca Torture can never be tolerated

F-16'lar ileri teknolojiyle donatılacak

MİT, nüfus sayımı için internetten destek istedi

Vatansever terör örgütü

Bilal Çetin Baykal’dan çarpıcı yolsuzluk iddiaları

Mustafa Mutlu AKP’li belediyeler son üç ayda kaç işçi aldı?

AKP'li Başkan soruşturulamıyor!

Kemal Abi'den Eskişehir'e kıyak

Uzan: O gün ÇEAŞ Kepez olayı yoktu

Fatih Çekirge Er mektubuna Oramiral imzası

Vidinli Meclis'te gençlerin çığlığı olacağım

27 Mayıs’ı Amerika yaptırdı - Cemal A. Kalyoncu

BBc 11 Temmuz 2007 Basın Özeti

MemRI "Yeni Safak":Evil Non-Turk/Non-Muslim Gangs in Turkey, West - Responsible for Secularization, Westernization, Pushing Turkey Awayfrom Islam

H3 Ahmet Hakan Abdullah Gül çizildi Mehmet Sağlam geldi

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ "Meclis dışı" mı dediniz?

Şamil Tayyar AK Parti’nin yeni yol haritası

Baykal: Köşk listene 'hiçbiri' şıkkını da koy Murat Yetkin

Baykal'dan Çankaya'da Türban'a sarı ışık

'Dışarı' deyince akla gelenler...

Fikret BİLA ABD Kerkük referandumuna isteksiz

Hakan Aygün Oy oranına değil illerdeki sürprize bak!

Ahmet Taşgetiren Bomba : Uzlaşma

Köşk rüyası yine başladı YENİ

Meclis içinden seçilecek

Uzlaşma milletle olur, çoğunluğa tahakküm edemezsin

M. Ali BİRAND AKP, Gül'den vazgeçmiyor

Sami KOHEN Türkmenleri kim, neden hedef alıyor?

Cengiz Çandar 22 Temmuz’un şimdiden belli sonuçlarından biri...

En iyi koalisyon hangisi olur?

Erdoğan: Aday vekil olmalı

Taha AKYOL Abdüllatif Şener, Profesör

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Çankaya'ya Roma modeli

Uzlaşamadılar

'Köşk rüyası' yine başladı...

Baykal'ın yeni Köşk kriterleri

Nuray Başaran AK Parti’nin sorunu ne, Ak Parti ile sorun ne

Türkiye-ABD ilişkileri iyi tanımlanmalı NEJAT ESLEN

Abdülhamit Bilici İki AK Parti farkı

Şener saygın isim ama Köşk’e olmaz

Bilal Çetin Baykal’dan çarpıcı yolsuzluk iddiaları

Sabahattin ÖNKİBAR Meydanlarda TSK istismarı yapan AKP, askerle gizlice anlaştı mı?

Ertuğrul Özkök Arkadaşlarıma kefil değilim

AKP 1’inci parti ama sandalyesi azalacak

Cüneyt Ülsever Erdoğan-Gül ikilisi

Son ankette 3 partili Meclis çıktı

Cumhurbaşkanlığı araştırması

Devletin zirvesindeki 48 kişi!

Kadiriler bölünürken Yeni Asyacılar DP'ye

Fethullah Gülen'den Milliyet'e yalanlama

[Yorum - Mümtaz'er Türköne] Türk Baasçılığının yeni sentez arayışları

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri - Dış Basında Güncel Türkiye Bülteni

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

VOA TSİ 06:30 Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

Taha Kıvanç Ne biçim seçim bu!

Fehmi Koru Bir küçük hamle: Uzlaşma

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU AK Parti etrafındaki tarihî ittifak

Ali Bayramoğlu Seçimlerden seçim beğen...

KÜRŞAT BUMİN 'Uzlaşmak' şart mıdır?

HAKAN ALBAYRAK Milliyetçilik bahsine mütevazı bir katkı

NAZLI ILICAK Gül'den vazgeçildi mi?

Derya SAZAK Adaylığım sürüyor

Explaining the emergence of nationalism by Dr. CENAP ÇAKMAK*

AKP 'dışarıdan biri' önerisine soğuk

Şener'e kırmızı ışık

Baykal: Uzlaşma çoktan seçmeli test gibi olmaz

"Kapıları şimdiden kapatma"

Ağar: Uzlaşmak aklına yeni mi geldi?

Bahçeli: Meclis içinden de olabilir, dışından da

Nuh Gönültaş Fındığın gücü..,

Bütün bunlar boşuna mı yaşandı?
Haluk Şahin

Oktay Ekşi Geç ve güç oldu ama...

Post-election crisis looms for center-right parties

Karışık işler Avni Özgürel Devlet dediğimiz mekanizmanın açıkta, aleni olan yüzü bulunduğu gibi, örtülü katlarının da bulunduğunu bilirim, hatta bulunması gerektiğini anlarım...

Demokrasiyi kim koruyor?
M.Ali Kışlalı

Tufan Türenç Kemal Unakıtan’ın yeni marifetleri

Emin Çölaşan Genç Parti olayı

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Bahçeli'nin suskunluk sarmalı...

ERDAL ŞAFAK Tehlikeli popülizm

ERGUN BABAHAN Uzlaşma mı dayatma mı?

EMRE AKÖZ 'Hiç sana yakışıyor mu?'

Umur Talu

Hadi Uluengin Aktan, Schmitt ve MHP (I)

Ruşen Çakır| AKP’nin MHP takıntısı

HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN

Erdoğan ile Uzan 'gizli görüşme' için kapıştı

YSK’dan Emniyet’e ‘parti bayrağı’ uyarısı

Gül: Mağdur değilim benim başım dik

Tamer Korkmaz Ağzındaki baklayı çıkardı...

Mustafa Ünal Uzlaşma!

Ali Bulaç Türkiye partileri!

MHP neden CHP’ye benzedi? - Nursel Dilek

Genç Parti'den ''AKP-CHP koalisyonu hazırlanıyor'' iddiası

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Siyasette televizyon

Türk milliyetçiliği ayrıştırmaz, birleştirir

Mehmet BARLAS Derdimi ummana döktüm, asumana inledim... Sonra da unuttum

Engin Ardıç Anketçi esnafı

Yavuz Baydar Broken hearts, serious doubts and ‘rational’ voters

Doğu Ergil Back to square one

Serdar Turgut Çözüm Meclis dışı aday

Mehmet Tezkan

Çankaya için uzlaşalım derken aslında çatışıyorlar..

Salih Neftçi Seçimlere 10 gün kala bazı saptamalar...

Mehmet Yılmaz Milli Eğitim Bakanı’nın cezasını kim kesecek?

Mesut Yılmaz: Öcalan'ın idam edilmemesi doğru bir çözümdü

UNDP head Derviş shows Turkey as a model to the LDCs

Bülent Keneş Turkey and the Fourth World

Yalçın Doğan Mazlum milletler Atatürk’ten vazgeçmiyor

Beril Dedeoğlu A look from Turkey’s East to the world

Ege Cansen Ankara-Londra hattı

Güngör URAS Hükümet fındığa "iyi fiyat" verdi (Yaşasın seçim ekonomisi!)

ABDURRAHMAN YILDIRIM

Ercan Kumcu Kaynaklar yanlış yerlerde aranıyor

Erdal Sağlam

Eser Karakaş MHP’nin ekonomi programı

Hesapsız programlar Uğur Gürses

Metin MÜNİR Petkim'i alan hırslı bankacı: Ruben Vardanyan

Petkim özelleştirmesi ve düşman ulus SÜLEYMAN YAŞAR

PETKİM özelleştirmesi Mustafa Aysan

Prof. Dr. AYDIN AYAYDIN
Dış borçlanmanın dayanılmaz cazibesi

Basel II ve KOBİ'ler Metin Ercan

Seçmen ekonomi notunu son sene veriyor - Fatih Uğur

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In or Out We must not kid ourselves: our real choices in Iraq are either all in or all out

Abbas Accuses Hamas of Aid to Al Qaeda

MAUREEN DOWD History as an Alibi When presidents have screwed up and want to console themselves, they think history will give them a second chance.

H5 Washington Post Iraq: Go Deep or Get Out By Stephen Biddle, Centrist policies appeal to the American public but do not fit the military reality of Iraq.

In Republican Party, Growing Friction on Iraq GOP leadership's use of a parliamentary tactic encourages a growing number of dissenters to rally, seek new ways to force president's hand.

President To Critics: Wait Till September GOP Lawmakers Told to Be Patient For Petraeus Report

Congressional Agency Predicts War Costs Will Climb

Top Aides Leave McCain Camp Seeking to reverse a downward spiral, candidate engineers a dramatic shake-up of campaign team

Bush Tries Moving the Goalposts

PostGlobal Playing Hardball in the Cloak of Democracy

Green Zone Is Hit By Barrage of Shells

American Killed; Attacks Becoming Frequent, Accurate

Iran Widens Investigation Of Two Jailed Americans

The Bliss We Can't Buy By Robert J. Samuelson For better or worse, there are limits to reengineering the human spirit.

Raid at Islamabad Mosque Turns Long and Deadly

Musharraf In The Twilight By: Frederic Grare | The Washington Post
Pakistan's present crisis should be an opportunity to rethink Western strategies toward Islamabad.

Suicide Attack on NATO Patrol Kills 13 Schoolchildren in Afghan Market

Obama Echoes Clinton on Iraq War, to a Different End

FBI Plans Initiative To Profile Terrorists Potential Targets Get Risk Rating

H6 Guardian The rules change when dictators serve US interests
Imran Khan: The mosque siege reveals Musharraf's desperation to appear tough in the war on terror. But in truth he is a friend to terrorists.

Now we know Bush's poodle was also Campbell's labrador Simon Jenkins: The real casualty of this overblown saga is not the spin doctor who did such damage, but the man who overpromoted him.

Those rebellious Republicans Matthew Yglesias: Republicans are abandoning Iraq like rats from a sinking ship. So why is one Senate Democrat tossing them a lifeline?

Feeling peaky Deborah Hargreaves: 'Peak oil' doomsayers are wrong - there is plenty out there. It's just a question of whether we are willing to pay the environmental price to get it.

Leader A general at war Pakistan: The storming of the Red Mosque led to unprecedented scenes in the centre of Islamabad yesterday. Ever since the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan has used Islamist militants as a tool for conducting its proxy wars.

Chilling Similarities By: Ed Husain The pan-Islamic Hizb ut-Tahrir party rejects democracy, has an expansionist foreign policy and believes in a master race. Sound familiar?

Al-Qaida deputy threatens retaliation in response to Rushdie's knighthood

Bin Laden's deputy threatens 'very precise response' in retaliation for knighthood given to author. Profile: Ayman al-Zawahiri

If cast as rational rival to Cameron's man of emotion, Brown will lose

Jonathan Freedland: The lessons of successive US elections are clear: voters want their leaders to appeal to the heart, not just the intellect.

H7 The Iran Crisis and Possible Scenarios: The Sunni states—especially Saudi Arabia—are alarmed by a now dynamic Iran and any move toward the acquisition of nuclear weapons will probably provoke an equal gesture by Riyadh.

Asia Times Thirsty in the land between the rivers
Iraq, dominated by the great Tigris and Euphrates rivers, has plenty of water, yet it's dying of thirst. After four years of occupation and many years of sanctions before that, Iraq suffers severe shortages of electricity and fuel needed to run pumps. As one consequence, about 70% of the people live without safe drinking water. - Ali al-Fadhily

Daily Star Editorial Americans should not be fooled by Bush's reckless depiction of Iran threat

Washington Times Editorial Tehran's blood-soaked hands As American and Iraqi casualties mount, U.S. military commanders have become increasingly willing to criticize Tehran's role in fueling the violence in Iraq

Israel vs. Hezbollah, Round 2 Arnaud de Borchgrave

Prime Minister Brown's maiden voyage (Harlan Ullman)

DEBKAfile: In new videotape Al Qaeda’s No. 2 issues dire threats against two government heads, UK’s Gordon Brown and Lebanon’s Fouad Siniora

Geopolitical Diary: Red Mosque Fallout Could Derail Election Schedule
Stratfor

Is Musharraf Losing his Grip on Pakistan? By: Rudiger Falksohn | Der Spiegel Koran students at the so-called Red Mosque in Islamabad had provoked the Pakistani government for months, but President Musharraf chose to delay intervention. His decision to bring in the army was intended as a show of force and as a reminder to the West that despite his dwindling authority, there is no alternative to his leadership.

UPI Outside view: Iran uses 'hedging strategy' in Afghanistan

Asia Times Pakistan's iron fist is to the US's liking Despite being on the brink of an agreement to peacefully end the seven-day siege of the radical Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad, President General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday suddenly opted for cold steel rather than warm words. Scores of people have been killed in the fierce fighting. Only the president knows why he changed his mind. And maybe Washington too. - Syed Saleem Shahzad

CFR The Capital Interview: Bellinger Says International Court Flawed But Deserving of Help in Some Cases

Washington Institute AFRICOM: A New American Military Command

H8 IraqSlogger Google News Iraq Iran Syria Mideastwire.com - NPR Iraq stratfor

US Papers Wed: Bush Demands Inaction on Iraq

Iraqi Papers Wed: Sadr Sighted in Najaf

Washington Institute US Support for the Iranian Opposition

U.S. targets Iranian aid to militants on all sides U.S. Special Forces are intensifying their efforts to root out Iranian agents who are said to be working in Iraq to further destabilize the fractured nation, a leading U.S. analyst and a top Iraqi diplomat said.

BBC Iraqi alarm
Officials in Baghdad fear a precipitate US troop withdrawal

McClatchy Bush stays course, rebuffs demand for change

U.S. rotates carrier to Persian Gulf amid rising Iran tensions

Pentagon denies plans to add third carrier in the Gulf

Iraq benchmarks now 'unachievable, irrelevant'

Bush again links Iraq violence to 9/11

Iraqi Parliament Delays Meeting on Oil Law

Barrage of mortars strikes Baghdad's Green Zone

Review of Arab Editorials

BBC Red Mosque operation 'nears end' An operation to flush out militants from Islamabad's Red Mosque is in its final stages, Pakistan's army says.

Lebanon stand-off
Nation remains divided a year after Israel-Hezbollah war

Lebanese Need Say-So In Camps By: Graeme Bannerman | Miami Herald
The violence in the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, which erupted in May, may have ended, but has the underlying threat? The 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon have increasingly become lawless sanctuaries for rogue elements bent on violence and training ground for international radical groups such as Fatah al Islam

A review of The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In by Hugh Kennedy.

An excerpt from A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja by Joost R. Hiltermann (and an interview).

A review of The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq by Gwynne Dyer.

H9 Ha’aretz – Military Intelligence: Iran will cross nuclear threshold by 2009 MI says Hezbollah is not currently interested in fighting, Syria readying for war but not seeking one

PM to Assad: Open talks, without U.S. mediation

Yoel Marcus: This summer make peace not war with Syria

Where is the center of the Jewish people? The Jews of Israel and America are rivals for centrality, status, resources and on the bigger question of where the future of the Jewish people lies.

Rosner's Guest: American Jews, Israel is not our place

Jewish leaders concerned by trend to delegitimize Israel

UN to Israel: Shaba Farms is Lebanese territory UN proposes Israel withdraw, give UNIFIL control of debated border region; PM, Livni oppose move

Netanyahu: Barak is responsible for Hezbollah on our border Likud chair slams ex-PM Barak's 'amateur, rash, adventurous' withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000

Jerusalem Post IDF: War with Syria would be 10 times worse than Hizbullah Says war could erupt due to "miscalculation" in form of terror attack; MI identifying targets for Iran strike; predicts bomb by 2009.

Meeting at No. 10 Downing Street
[ BARRY RUBIN,

'US hasn't yet grasped Iran threat'
Top Iran expert: Bush unsure if he wants regime change or behavior change.

Kuttab: Israel's forgive-and-forget problem

Open letter to world Jewry, by Akoon Mou Tsina

Yedioth Hizbullah: IDF can't face us
Sheikh Nabil Kaouk tells Iranian news agency Israel not capable of fighting his party; says, 'It will take the Israeli army a long time to rehabilitate its military and morale before it is ready for another war with Hizbullah'

Daily Alert.org – Middle East Progress - EJC Israeli Press Review – Google News Israel - Palestine

Time running out for strike against Iran Jerusalem Post,

New Statesman The history of Kabbalah

Israel's Most Powerful Woman By: Tracy Wilkinson | Los Angeles Times
Tzipi Livni is an ex-spy with Zionist roots who defies stereotypes. She aspires to be the first female premier in decades

Tycoon launches new Israeli party A Russian billionaire launches a new political party in Israel with the aim of ousting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Daily Star Recapturing legitimacy in Palestine By Michael Meyer-Resende

A boycott of Israeli academic institutions will have little impact
By Mark Klusener

Iranian general's wife says Israel kidnapped him

H10 Christian Science Monitor

Senate seeks to put imprint on Iraq policy Some GOP lawmakers are among those trying to force the White House to shift its war strategy.

Pakistani leader's bold move Musharraf's risky raid on the extremist Red Mosque may pay political dividends.

Senior IAEA official to visit Iran

Questions over Iran's nuclear program as watchdog agency returns to the country.

Militants stir in Lebanese outposts

UN officials say that militants in 16 remote Palestinian outposts are adding guns and recruits to stir more trouble for the American-backed government.

Should US cities try a London-style camera network? New York plans to install a permanent, extensive system for lower Manhattan by year's end.

Pro-Taiwan, Not Anti-China By: Randall Schriver | The Japan Times
How can the United States be pro-Taiwan, but not anti-China, with reference to any referendum that Taipei may want to conduct?

Time Where Kissinger Still Rocks

H11 IHT A lesson in Iraqi illusion By ROBERT MALLEY AND PETER HARLING / The Boston Globe To imagine what Baghdad will look like after the surge, there is no need to project far into the future. Just turn to the recent past.

EU backs former French official to lead IMF

The biofuel myths By ERIC HOLT-GIMÉNEZ A global moratorium on the expansion of biofuels is needed to develop regulatory structures and foster conservation and development alternatives to the transition.

Britain responds angrily to Russia's refusal to extradite alleged killer of Alexander Litvinenko

EUROPE European press review

ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT BRIEFING Free rider not free market Nicolas Sarkozy wants a bigger budget deficit

H12 RFE/RL

Russia Puts Energy Importers Over a Barrel

Armenia: Ready for Change with Azerbaijan, But How?
A EURASIANET COMMENTARY BY HAROUTIUN KHACHATRIAN
Skepticism is running strong in Armenia that a surprise trip by a joint Armenian-Azeri delegation of intellectuals may mark a new stage in efforts to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Despite initial optimism, the question of what will follow to build on this initiative remains, for now, unanswered

EDM YEREVAN VOWS “SECOND-GENERATION” REFORMS TO SUSTAIN ROBUST GROWTH

Georgia Provide Troops for Iraq, Get a Free Pass on Human Rights by Ken Silverstein

Google News Azerbaijan

From NYRB, a look at how Russian journalists have suffered crippling attacks in recent years, as Vladimir Putin pursues his policy of strengthening the "vertical" dimension of his administration's "power pyramid".

"We Don't Need NATO" By: Gennady Sevransky and Oleg Zorin | Kommersant
Yesterday in Odessa the US andUkraine began their "Sea Breeze 2007" joint exercises, the most extensive exercises this year to be carried out on Ukrainian territory. The beginning of the exercises was marred by clashes between law enforcement and opponents of Ukraine's increasingly close relationship with NATO

H13 The Times Pope: Protestant faith is 'not a proper Church' Anglican leaders react with dismay after the Protestant and Orthodox faiths are dismissed as 'defective' in a Vatican document

Analysis: Musharraf's stark choice after siege The Pakistani President is fighting four battles against internal dissent - and the mosque siege could determine his fate

Pressured Bush pleads for more time in Iraq President Bush sought to placate a disillusioned American public in the face of a major Republican revolt over Iraq

Call for vote on ‘Europe empire’

Britain has been told that is was part of a new European empire — by Jos頍anuel Barroso, the Brussels bureaucrat who would be emperor

Rebel leader killed in storming of Red Mosque Pakistani security forces stormed the besieged Red Mosque, killing Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the firebrand cleric who led the rebels

Battered Musharraf playing with fire

Musharraf’s confused handling of the Red Mosque crisis is likely to be central to his own demise Farzana Shaikh

Leader Losing the Plot A catalogue of errors helped the July 21 bombers

Wall Street Journal Our Own Worst Enemy We're making three key mistakes in the war on terror. By ALEXANDER M. HAIG, JR. The recent Hamas conquest of Gaza is a defeat for the US that goes well beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, giving Islamic terrorists a base in the Mediterranean.

Moving Forward in Iraq
The "surge" is working. Will Washington allow the current progress to continue?
By KIMBERLY KAGAN

What About Muslim Moderates? By: R. James Woolsey and Nina Shea | The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) The Bush administration is outsourcing Islamic outreach to extremist Saudis. Britain knows better.

The European Revival How to keep economic and job growth revving. By GEORGE ALOGOSKOUFIS

Public Diplomacy for Dummies
Effective public diplomacy is vital in the war on terror. By BRET STEPHENS

H14 Financial Times US mortgage problem fears spark sell-off Fears of further problems in the US mortgage industry and the broader economy triggered a sell-off in credit markets as investors sought safe havens

Bernanke explains Fed stance on inflation Ben Bernanke offered a subtle explanation of the way the Federal Reserve views core and headline inflation in a speech to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Editorial Pakistan heading for a showdown Gen Musharraf will face a violent backlash from the jihadis. He needs to gather new forces in order to defeat them

Leader Oil supplies are down and alternatives not yet available The major oil companies need to adjust to this new reality and rethink their business model

COMMENT: Why the west must regulate China's exports Beijing lacks the domestic and social foundations necessary to prevent serious safety breaches, writes Jeffrey Garten.

Olmert signals readiness for Syria talks Damascus may use third party

WORLD NEWS: Shattered expectations limit Palestinian hopes for change

WORLD NEWS: McCain's hopes hit as two top advisers resign

NATIONAL NEWS: Al-Qaeda threat over Rushdie honour

WORLD NEWS: A transformation timed to imperfection "These are challenging times. But anyone who writes off John McCain does not understand the nature of the man. He is a fighter and he will rebound."

WORLD NEWS: Give Iraq surge more time, Bush tells Congress

WORLD NEWS: Blair seeks to broaden his role in push for Mideast peace

EU stresses fiscal discipline after slippages The European Union talked up its commitment to budgetary discipline, the day after Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, confirmed he expected to delay by two years his country’s delivery of a balanced budget

COMMENT: The eurozone is missing the point in its quest for stability The European Central Bank’s monetary targeting is doing no good. It should drop it, writes Paul De Grauwe.

ANALYSIS: Red line drawn The Pakistani president’s decision to storm the Red Mosque may gain him support in the west but the domestic cost will be dear.

COMMENT: Neocons have a new champion: Hillary Clinton She has an unusual ally in her frustration over America’s lack of national goals, writes Edward Crane.

COMMENT: Politicians are from Mars, bankers are from Pluto Radical shifts have occurred in the finance system, almost entirely unnoticed by the outside world. This is dangerous, writes Gillian Tett.

NATIONAL NEWS: Brown warns Moscow on co-operation

Editorial Latin lessons The Bush administration is edging towards a more constructive approach in its dealings with Latin America

BUSINESS LIFE: Outsider status leads to the inside track Some religious and ethnic groups seem to have a particular affinity for free enterprise, writes Luke Johnson

WORLD NEWS: Second 'outsider' in China cabinet

World Bank ratings spark anger Governance has improved significantly in Serbia, Algeria, Tajikistan and Rwanda since 1998, but Thailand and Argentina have fallen back on several key measures

Editorial Ending the Korean War

A possible resolution to Pyongyang's nuclear program -- and even to the peninsula's 57-year-old war -- looks closer than ever, thanks to a shift in U.S. policy.

Hamas' Stand By: Hamas Political Bureau Deputy Mousa Abu Marzook | Los Angeles Times
Hamas' rescue of a BBC journalist from his captors in Gaza last week was surely cause for rejoicing. But I want to be clear about one thing: We did not deliver up Alan Johnston as some obsequious boon to Western powers.

Live Earth: Dead on arrival

Jonah Goldberg The global warming concerts were little more than a marketing stunt for aging stars desperate for a stage.

H16 American Politics

McCain struggles in presidential race John McCain is fighting to keep his presidential bid alive after his campaign manager, chief strategist and three other staff resigned

USATODAYGALLUP: Bush approval drops to low of 29%; Anti-war views on rise...

WHITE HOUSE MEMO; An Ebbing of Coverage With ’08 on the Horizon

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note – US News Political Bulletin

Early Bird GovExec Swamp Gas The Swamp

Can We Know Her?
By Michael Tomasky

H17 Daily Telegraph We must fight a battle we can win

Gordon Brown's priority in Iraq and Afghanistan must be to formulate an achievable aim, one good enough to deliver homeland security, argues Allan Mallinson.

Al-Qa'eda threatens UK blitz over Rushdie

Osama Bin Laden's second in command says Britain faces terror attacks as ''punishment'' for Salman Rushdie's knighthood.

Blunders that let 21/7 bombers go free

The extent of security failings over the July 21 bombers and their links to the July 7 bombers can be revealed, after the collapse of the trial of two remaining defendants

Barroso hails the European 'empire'

Mosque attack humiliated Pakistan anew

Worldstage by Isambard Wilkinson

H18 Independent Rebel cleric and followers killed as Pakistani police storm mosque A handful of Islamic militants were making a final stand inside Islamabad's Lal Masjid last night as troops started removing the bodies of their leader and more than 50 of his followers killed during a bitter and bloody day of fighting.

Gareth Price: Critical moment for a leader under attack from both sides

Bush finds no way out of Iraq as approval ratings plunge

Kosovo close to boiling point, warns UN chief

Leading article: No compromise on independence (Kosovo)

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Chertoff 'Gut Feeling': Worry of Summer Terror Attack...

Paul C. Light on The Homeland Security Hash: The Department of Homeland Security gets little credit for the fact that terrorists have not staged an attack on American soil since 2001, and it is an open question whether it deserves much. Conceived in haste and crippled by its design, the newest addition to the cabinet desperately needs an overhaul.

Opportunity ‘08: Homeland Security
Source: The Brookings Institution Position Paper (PDF; 107 KB)
+ Fact Sheet (PDF; 40 KB) Brookings Opportunity ‘08: Independent Ideas for Our Next President

Germans debate whether to use lethal force against a bin Laden If a German soldier stumbles across Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, should he A. Arrest him? B. Call for the nearest American soldier? or C. Take aim and fire? The answer, according to German law and current sensibilities, is either A or B. |

Hunter: DoD needs teeth to probe mergers

H20 Slate The McCain Mutiny:

Can his reeling presidential campaign survive today's carnage?

John Dickerson

Taking the temperature: Towards an NHS response to global warming (PDF; 208 KB) Source: New Economics Foundation

NYRB Our Biotech Future
By Freeman Dyson It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. Two facts about the coming century are agreed on by almost everyone. Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. Biology is also more important than physics, as measured by its economic consequences, by its ethical implications, or by its effects on human welfare.

Global Anti-Money Laundering Survey 2007: how banks are facing up to the challenge Source: KPMG

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1994-2006 Telephone Records of the Escort Service Source: Deborah Jeane Palfrey Legal Defense Fun website

H21 NYRB Anita Desai on Primo Levi Al Alvarez on Ian McEwan
Tim Parks on Elfriede Jelinek
Hilary Mantel on Mischa Berlinski
Claire Messud on Andrew O'Hagan
Francisco Goldman on Roberto Bolaño Joyce Carol Oates on Amnesiac Novels and an excerpt from J. M. Coetzee's new novel, Diary of a Bad Year

The Dangers of Utopia: Alan Ryan reviews Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray (and more).

Why the Left is right: A review of Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism by Eric Hobsbawm (and more and more).

The United States of America is the only country in the world that doesn’t have a name: the first two words define its political organization, the last the continent it sits on.

Why Big Things Fail: Crispin Sartwell on gigantism and the U.S. government.

No solar link to global warming Study shows sun activity is decreasing, whilst global temperatures continue to rise at an accelerating rate.

Faulks given licence to thrill in new 007 The author of the best-selling First World War novel Birdsong, Sebastian Faulk will write the new 007 novel.

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