Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Pro-American French Author Blasts Bush Administration
Coming from another Frenchman, the argument hardly would seem surprising: The war in Iraq was a tragic mistake that derailed the war on terror and damaged America’s image to a point where it now needs a major intellectual, moral and political shake-up to restore its credibility. But when Bernard-Henri Levy, France’s most prominent “anti-anti-American,” laments…
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News Chalabi Allies Claim CIA Plot Of Defamation
Neoconservative allies of Ahmad Chalabi are rallying to the side of the embattled Iraqi politician, insisting that he is the victim of an orchestrated campaign to discredit him. Chalabi and several of his allies outside of government say that he has been undermined by political enemies at the State Department and at the CIA who…
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News U.S. Adviser Faults ‘Failure of Nerve’ Regarding Sadr
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The Bush administration made a fatal mistake by deciding not to crack down on the firebrand Shiite cleric Moktada el Sadr during a period of several months, according to an adviser to the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, who just returned from Baghdad. “It was a disastrous failure of nerve,” Larry Diamond,…
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News Ties With Israel Look Solid Following Indian Election
A leading Israeli politician expressed confidence that relations between India and Israel would remain on a sound footing despite the change of government in Delhi. “I very much hope that the strong contacts we have with India will not be harmed [as a result of the change in government in India] because they are based…
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Culture Germans Say They Warned Powell’s Data On Iraq Arms Was Tainted
BERLIN — German government officials claim the CIA disregarded their warnings about the unreliability of a key piece of Iraqi weapons intelligence that was featured prominently in last year’s landmark address to the United Nations by Secretary of State Colin Powell. Two German government sources close to the issue said German intelligence had told the…
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News Antisemitism Fight Provides Way For Mending Transatlantic Split
BERLIN — Fresh from a major international conference here last week, diplomats and communal leaders say that the fight against antisemitism is emerging as a vehicle for mending the American-European split over Iraq, as well as easing tensions between Jewish groups and human rights organizations. Representatives of the 55-member Organization for Security and Cooperation in…
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News Geneva Coalition To Push Peace Initiative
The authors of the Geneva peace initiative are trying to revive their advocacy campaign just as the Bush administration is endorsing Ariel Sharon’s Gaza disengagement plan. The group, an ad hoc coalition of Israeli and Palestinian politicians, academics and retired military and security officials, is opening an office in New York that will coordinate efforts…
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News U.S. Leads the Way at Berlin Conference
The Bush administration has launched a major diplomatic effort to ensure a positive outcome to a major conference on antisemitism being held next week in Berlin. The administration drew cheers from Jewish groups after Secretary of State Colin Powell decided to join the American delegation to the two-day gathering of the Organization for the Security…
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