Law and Society
Middle EastBy caitlyn
5 months ago
 Last Sunday Fareed Zakaria, the host of GPS on CNN, opened his program with an analysis of the Iranian nuclear crisis. He started by saying: "A moment of truth is arriving on the Iran Issue. Western countries will have to face up to the fact that there are only really two choices with Iran: one, a military strike, effectively preventing the country from continuing to expand its nuclear capacity; or, secondly, learning to live with such a capacity." Up to this point Zakaria was 100% correct in his assessment. The current talks with the Iranian regime have produced no concrete results and based on comments by the Iranian government they never will. I can understand why President Obama wants to give diplomacy every reasonable chance at success. If nothing else it provides the U.S., and perhaps by extension Israel, some diplomatic cover with the rest of the West when the inevitable war with Iran comes.
Zakaria went on to describe some of the consequences of a strike by either the U.S. or Israel on Iran. Once again he was spot on: |
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy myqute
7 months ago
Here's my choice of top 8 posts in JPost.com (The Jerusalem Post) and what I think about the content of the posts:
 #1. A post by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, "Litzman dithers on graphic cigarette warnings", gives a good insight to the different images used on cigarette packs in Israel and 17 other countries including Singapore.
I could not help but post a comment there (I am quite a commentaholic!),"Yes, Singapore has cigarette packs with such images. They may be the "best move" for now since the government bodies are not banning them. I have not heard of WHO mandating cigarette bans although they may be mandating H1N1 Vaccines around the world."
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