The prominent newspaper in Lebanon, The Daily Star, is reporting that a majority of the Cabinet Ministers in the Israeli government now favors an attack on Iran. The number of news reports on this particular issue has died down recently–since Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to the US. As I’ve indicated before, the amount of “chatter” about a particular policy is a good index of how seriously it is being considered. Let’s hope that the number of news reports increases dramatically soon.
North Korea has announced that it intends to launch a satellite. Since the missile technology for launching a satellite is the same as launching a warhead, the West is threatening to withdraw its earlier offer of food aid in return for a halt to the North Korean nuclear program. The response raises some critical issues: does non-proliferation mean more than just nuclear bombs? is the West refining or reneging on its earlier deal? There are many ambiguities being raised right now.
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