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...tactics of the Israel lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency.' CHARLES FREEMAN, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, after withdrawing from consideration as chairman of the National Intelligence Council because of "distortions" by pro-Israel lobbyists...
...simply been a dispute about Middle East policy, he would have survived.' Representative MARK KIRK (R., Ill.), saying Freeman's job as head of the Saudi-funded Middle East Policy Council tarnished his objectivity...
...meantime, the U.N. Security Council - at the behest of the U.S. and its key allies in East Asia, Japan and South Korea - convened yesterday to consider a response to the launch. But the meeting broke up late Sunday night with no agreement on anything, and that speaks volumes about the gap that now exists between China and Russia on one side (both permanent members of the Security Council) and the U.S., South Korea and Japan on the other. (Those nations, plus North Korea, comprise the six-party talks.) (Read about what North Korea could look like after...
...that the rocket launch was a direct violation of U.N. resolutions 1718 and 1695, which applied sanctions against Pyongyang in the wake of its 2006 missile and nuclear tests and whose language is unequivocal in its opposition to further ballistic-missile tests. But news accounts say that some Security Council members are not convinced the Sunday launch violated the resolutions, presumably because the payload was a satellite, not a weapon. That's the position in both Beijing and Moscow, diplomatic sources tell TIME. Indeed, after the talks at the U.N. ended last night in New York City, Zhang Yesui, China...
...Beijing, Obama didn't equivocate as to whether the launch was a violation of U.N. resolutions. But the resolution that Washington and Tokyo offered yesterday merely strengthened existing enforcement mechanisms, diplomats say. In other words, the cost to the North won't be too high, even if the Security Council agrees on further sanctions - which...