Monthly Archives: September 2012
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Leo Hansen’s Response to will containment work on Iran’s Nuclear program
My use of the word illegal is not the right word with regard to the Ultra Orthodox Jewish belief. Their word is illegitimate. I not sure if there is any real difference between illegal and illegitimate. The point is that the Jewish belief is that the Messiah has to establish the state of Israel, not men. Others who do not accept the state of Israel, like Iran, believe that the United Nations partitioning of Palestine into a Jewish state and a Palestinian state was illegal. That discussion is for international legal scholars. My point about the Jewish population in Iran is just to establish that Iran seems not to have a problem with Jews per se but with the state of Israel; otherwise they would be rounding them up and either expelling them or killing them.
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Dan Barker’s Response to Leo Hansen’ s Response to will containment work
In what sense is Israel an ‘illegal’ state? Under what law is this so? Is the United States illegal? Is Iran legal? Or more to the point, is the regime in Tehran legal in spite of many violations of human rights, sponsorship of terrorism, acts of outright war, etc.? Does the survival of Jewish dhimmis in Iran mean that Israel has no legitimate self-defense concerns?
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The U.S. in Southeast Asia: Learning or teaching?
One of the biggest recent news stories in the East Asian Region is the continuing territorial dispute between China and Japan. The two world superpowers have been involved in the dispute for longer than either would care to admit, given the nature of the islands themselves. The islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, consist largely of nothing but jagged rock faces, overgrown shrubs, and wild birds. Despite this fact, the dispute has flared recently, even causing the Chinese to cancel plans for an event that was supposed to mark 40 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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Leo Hansen’s Response to will containment work on Iran’s Nuclear program
Excellent analysis. I believe that the leaders of Iran have been misquoted about their opposition to Israel’s existence. They seem to believe that Israel is an illegal state. This is also the view of Ultra Conservative Jews who believe that only the Messiah can establish the state of Israel. As further evidence that the leaders of Iran are not anti-Semitic, Tehran has a significant Jewish population who are not subject to treatment like the Jews received at the hands of the Nazis. This analysis should be read by Mitt Romney and advisers who project the intent to attack Iran over this Nuclear program.
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Is Deterrence a Viable Option for a Nuclear Iran?
Iran’s nuclear program has again entered the spotlight of U.S. foreign policy debates in a election cycle in which foreign policy has taken the backseat. The current debates often result in three scenarios: 1) Iran gives up its nuclear program, 2) Israel (with or without U.S. assistance) makes a preemptive strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, postponing Iran’s progress, or 3) The parties involved wait until Iran develops nuclear weapons and thus assure a nuclear exchange between Iran and Israel. Essentially, these scenarios ultimately result in either Iran ending its nuclear program or an unavoidable war between Israel (and therefore the U.S.) and Iran. These scenarios leave no room for the possibility of a nuclear Iran without war.
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