The Next Nuclear War?
Salameh Nematt is an international writer for The Daily Beast. He is the former Washington bureau chief for the international Arab daily Al Hayat, where he reported on US foreign policy, the war in Iraq, and the US drive for democratization in the broader Middle East. He has also written extensively on regional and global energy issues and their political implications.
Iran responded to this week's meeting between Obama and Netanyahu by testing a missile capable of hitting Israel. Will Obama have to confront Iran-or stop Israel's retaliation?
Did Obama Get Suckered?
Martin Indyk is director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution and author of the recently published Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (Simon & Schuster 2009).
Far from taking risks for peace, like freezing settlements, the Israeli prime minister just laid down new preconditions. Martin Indyk, former ambassador to Israel and director of the Saban Center at Brookings on what Obama didn't get from Netanyahu.
Obama Intelligence Nominee Withdraws
Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.
Charles "Chas" Freeman, Obama's pick to head the National Intelligence Council, has withdrawn from contention for the job. The Daily Beast's Max Blumenthal reported that the leader of the campaign against Freeman was Steven Rosen, a former director of AIPAC awaiting trial on espionage charges, who has a long history of attacking and undermining anybody he deems hostile to Israel.
Yes, Israel Can!
Ashley Rindsberg is an independent writer and researcher who focuses on media and politics.
How do you win Tuesday's Israeli elections? Steal Barack Obama's slogans. Pilfer his talking points. And assure voters you just can't wait to work with him.
Judging by the polls, a John McCain victory on November 4 would take a small miracle (or some very serious strategizing). But Obama's lead hasn't stopped conservatives from harboring dark fantasies of sexual, racial, even constitutional scandals that could cost Obama the presidency. None of these rumors has been proven true, and nearly all have been vigorously denied by the Obama campaign. Here's a guide to six of them.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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