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While, after Jeffrey Goldberg’s lengthy article last week, a heated debate at The Atlantic currently discusses pros and cons of bombing Iran and its nuclear facilities, and former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton warns that Israel and the US are going to miss an almost historical chance to destroy the Bushehr light water reactor before it is loaded [...]

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Two nuclear bombings and an incredible number of nuclear tests between 1945 and 1998 with the emerging of new nuclear powers. The test on 9 October 2006 by North Korea has obviously not been taken seriously, neither has been that in September 1977 which was conducted by apartheid regime South Africa probably in collaboration with [...]

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Clashes between Jews and Palestinians on the occasion of Purim are commonplace. In Hebron, or rather Al Khalil in the West Bank, they seem to escalate these days since the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he wanted the so called Cave of Machpelah, i.e., Abraham’s tomb, to be included in his national heritage [...]

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When the Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) endowed his award for peace in 1895 he had a person in mind “who shall have done the most of the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” [...]

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The Guardian Council of the Iranian Islamic theocracy has just started screening of 475 electoral hopefuls who have signed-up for the June 12 presidential election. The winner is already known, the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There is no other choice for the Iranian people. Despite considerable domestic criticism which I have noticed during my recent visit [...]

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