American Jews have a lot on their communal plate right now, what with Lebanon, Iran and the chaos in Gaza. But the situation in Russia cries out for our attention, as well. With more than a half-million vulnerable Jews remaining in the country, Russia’s turn back to authoritarian rule should be a matter of worldwide [...]

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Today, the specter of destruction falling from the sky is back. It could come at any time, in any place, and for no reason. Many are asking what should be done about it. But the real question is what can be done.
Today, the specter of destruction falling from the sky is back. The US enjoyed [...]

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Space capabilities are likely to become a key component of China’s modernizing military, making it imperative that Washington and Beijing engage in a broader defense dialogue to avoid surprises, analysts say.
Military journals and scholarly articles published by China’s defense academies clearly indicate that Beijing sees space capabilities as critical to its modern defense forces, said [...]

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At the rate they are going, “Iranian missiles will dominate the entire continent of Europe by the end of this decade. Once they perfect their workhorse SLV, their reach will become truly global,” Rubin added.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 30 (UPI) — With missiles that can reach every corner of the Middle East [...]

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China is striving to build economic and political ties in a region which the International Energy Agency expects to supply 70 percent of its oil imports by 2015, but in doing so it risks antagonizing its key trading partner, the United States.
For China woos U.S. allies such as Saudi Arabia with the same fervor it [...]

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The DRDO shoots down criticism of its track record with a new Prithvi interceptor missile. Rajiv Singh reports.
On Monday 27 November, 2006, with the successful interception of one Prithvi surface-to-surface ballistic missile by another modified Prithvi at high altitude over the Bay of Bengal, India announced its entry into the high technology arena of ballistic [...]

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The hit last week was not a bolt from the blue. For the past several weeks Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah and his bosses in Syria and Iran have made it brutally clear that they intend to bring down the anti-Syrian government of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and replace it with a pro-Syrian, pro-Iranian coalition led [...]

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JERUSALEM — Iran’s reported drive to make an atomic bomb has become an existential threat to Israel that some Israelis are likening to the Holocaust — especially with the United States appearing to back away from confrontation with Tehran.
The alarmists include Aharon Appelfeld, a leading Israeli author who as a child survived the Nazi killing [...]

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An incipient nuclear arms race is emerging between China and the United States, according to a new report published today by the Federation of American Scientists and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The 250-page report, Chinese Nuclear Forces and U.S. Nuclear war Planning, outlines the status and possible future development of China’s nuclear weapons, describes the [...]

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With the gruesome killing of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, Vladimir Putin’s Russia stands accused of poisoning yet another critic.
Meanwhile, Syria continues to mastermind the murders of Lebanese democrats. Israeli-free Gaza is as violent as ever. Hezbollah is busy replenishing its stock of Iranian missiles. The theocracy in Iran keeps promising an end to Israel. [...]

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The recent death of a former Russian intelligence agent, Alexander Litvinenko, apparently after being poisoned with polonium-210, raises three interesting questions. First: Was he poisoned by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB? Second: If so, what were they trying to achieve? Third: Why were they using polonium-210, instead of other [...]

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MOSCOW. (Andrei Kokoshin for RIA Novosti) - One of the reasons behind Russia’s difficult relations with NATO is the latter’s expansion to the east.
We believe that NATO’s decision to invite former Warsaw Treaty and Baltic countries to join it is unjustified. Moreover, this decision contradicted the repeated assurances given by the Western leaders to their [...]

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Analysis: The U.S. President may have had noble aims, but his administration’s policies have helped push the region toward catastrophe.
President Bush travels to Jordan this week amid a consensus among U.S. allies in the Middle East that the region is monumentally worse off now than it was when he took office six years ago. In [...]

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Secondly, every election in Latin America suggests the following question: how many points will Washington lose in what has been proclaimed its zone of vital interests by the moth-eaten Monroe doctrine? It is enough to mention Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua (after Daniel Ortega’s victory). Ecuador will join the ranks now. A left-wing candidate [...]

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ANKARA, Turkey — Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and several conspiracy-themed books depicting Turkey as under attack by American and European influences sell briskly in local bookstores. Turkey’s $10 million movie “Valley of Wolves,” the most expensive to date, vilifying Christians and Jews pulls in record crowds. A 28-year-old lawyer shoots a secularist judge to death [...]

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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — A navigation chart under plate glass atop the desk of Rear Adm. Joseph Walsh, the commander Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, reveals a great deal about how the submarine force’s mission has changed.
It maps the waters from Japan and Korea down the coast of China and through the Taiwan Strait and [...]

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MOSCOW: The planned deployment of a U.S. missile defense system in Europe is intended to weaken Russia’s capacity for deterrence, the defense minister said, according to a report Tuesday by the Interfax news agency.
“We are told that this system is allegedly intended to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles. But Iran has no missiles of this class [...]

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By now, however, it has become evident that Putin is taking Russia in a direction not only unmistakably different from the one pursued by Yeltsin but, in many regards, its opposite. For the United States no less than for the Russian people, this turn of events carries profoundly unsettling implications. Not only is the survival [...]

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Our current crisis is not yet a catastrophe, but a real loss of confidence of the spirit. The hard-won effort of the Western Enlightenment of some 2,500 years that, along with Judeo-Christian benevolence, is the foundation of our material progress, common decency, and scientific excellence, is at risk in this new millennium.
But our newest foes [...]

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The close encounter between a Chinese diesel sub and the American carrier USS Kitty Hawk on October 26 near Okinawa, first reported openly in the U.S. in mid-November, has already generated quite a lot of commentary. Some of what’s been said, though, seems to have had its objectivity compromised by hewing first to one [...]

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First U.S. Aircraft Hijacked, May 1, 1961: Puerto Rican born Antuilo Ramierez Ortiz forced at gunpoint a National Airlines plane to fly to Havana, Cuba, where he was given asylum.
Ambassador to Guatemala Assassinated, August 28, 1968: U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala John Gordon Mein was murdered by a rebel faction when gunmen forced his official car [...]

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