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Trump offers clarity on Iran's terrorist aims
News, Eli Lake, Published on 10/04/2019
» For more than 30 years, successive US administrations have called Iran what it is: a state sponsor of terrorism. Leaders of its military and intelligence agencies have been sanctioned, while the terror groups Iran supports have faced military action as well as sanctions.
The next NK summit will be costly
News, Eli Lake, Published on 07/02/2019
» To hear US President Donald Trump tell it, his diplomatic gamble with North Korea is already paying dividends. In his State of the Union address, he announced that his next summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would take place in Vietnam at the end of the month.
How UN envoy Haley's vision clashed with Trump's
News, Eli Lake, Published on 11/10/2018
» The highlight of Nikki Haley's tenure as US ambassador to the United Nations came in the third week of December 2017. The General Assembly was preparing to vote to condemn the US for moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and Ms Haley was having none of it.
Trump should push human rights deal with N Korea
News, Eli Lake, Published on 16/05/2018
» Here's something you may not know about North Korea's dear leader, Kim Jong-un: He really cares about North Koreans.
Beware of the Korean peace trap
News, Eli Lake, Published on 30/04/2018
» On the surface it looks like the doubters were wrong. North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, travelled into South Korea on Friday to meet his counterpart. They agreed in principle at least to formally end the war that has divided the peninsula they share.
Expect Trump to hit Syria again, with same result
News, Eli Lake, Published on 10/04/2018
» If the past is a prelude, we should expect a US strike sometime soon against Syrian airfields.
Palestinian president shows world who he really is
News, Eli Lake, Published on 18/01/2018
» There are two ways to understand the two-and-a-half hour rant on Sunday from Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in which he called for discarding past agreements with Israel.
America and the problem of weak fascism
News, Eli Lake, Published on 18/08/2017
» There is no question that President Donald Trump's shifting reactions to the domestic terrorism in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been odious. While he condemned the murder of Heather Heyer, his equivocations, hedges and moral equivalency in the last few days signal a quiet approval of white supremacists. "What about the alt-left?"
Fahmy says al-Jazeera aids terrorists
News, Eli Lake, Published on 26/06/2017
» Mohamed Fahmy is the last person one would expect to make a case against al-Jazeera. In 2014, the former Cairo bureau chief for the Qatar-funded television network began a 438-day sentence in an Egyptian prison on terrorism charges and practising unlicensed journalism. His incarceration made al-Jazeera a powerful symbol of resistance to Egypt's military dictatorship.
Rouhani a fake reformer elected in a fake election
News, Eli Lake, Published on 23/05/2017
» In the days before President Hassan Rouhani's re-election victory in Iran this weekend, a video of one of his old speeches circulated on social media. Speaking at Iran's parliament, Mr Rouhani says dissidents against the new regime should be publicly hanged during Friday prayers as a message.