There has been a significant backlash to Andrew Adler's op-ed. However the response from at least one senior Jewish reporter, works hard to divert attention onto Obama's legitimate critics.
There has been a significant backlash to Andrew Adler's op-ed. However the response from at least one senior Jewish reporter, works hard to divert attention onto Obama's legitimate critics.
The journalist in question is Haaretz's Chemi Shalev, who writes:
"Austere Challenge 12", the joint US-Israeli military exercises, scheduled for April, have been cancelled.
The cancellation follows a tense telephone call between the two Presidents last week, as reported by Debka.
Obama is 100% behind an attack on Iran, but many of his most senior military are not, recognising such an attack as an insane act. Similarly, Netanyahu continues to face similar opposition from the heads of the Mossad, Shin Bet and others.
On the 23rd December, two leading Russian analysts wrote an article for Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye (Independent Military Review), highlighting that not only is Obama not abandoning the Bush Administration's PGS platform, but building on it.
The article (in Russian) describes Obama's strategy as:
A global layered US defence system is an integral part of a new triad: Missile Defence-Precision Weapons-Nuclear Weapons, which integrates within a single system of nuclear and conventional offensive assets, active and passive defence, and a flexible infastructure that supports their rapid buildup ... [Missile Defence is the] determining factor in the game planned by Washington for the geopolitical arena of today's 21st Century world.
Those readers who have been following my One World Governance series of articles will recall that in Part 5 I highlighted the fact that both David Cameron and Nick Clegg claimed that the new Liberal Democrat / Conservative administration was underpinned by a common purpose. In Part 8 I presented evidence that many MPs were also Members of the All Party Parliamentary United Nations Group and, additionally, that Vince Cable had helped to produce the Brundtland report Our Common Future which launched the concept of 'sustainable development'.
Following the failure to reach binding Treaty agreements amongst the Nations attending the Cop 15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in November 2009 UK Column readers have probably already noted that media coverage of the 2010 COP 16 Conference in Cancun, Mexico was surprisingly low key. In fact the Wikileaks affair and the tuition fees protests might be viewed as yet another deliberate media attempt at public distraction.
In June 2010 Lord Hannay, United Nations UK Association Chairman conceded that
