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...Having taken direct action, Israel apparently used diplomacy more to handle fallout from its actions. Though the Israeli government announced and then maintained in the face of doubting by its press that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spent a full day incommunicado last week because he was visiting a secret Israeli base, it has since admitted Netanyahu leased a private jet from an Israeli citizen and flew to Russia for the day, where he spoke in secret...
...With the Russian government itself commenting only vaguely about whether Netanyahu met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, it does not take Jason Bourne to unravel a common thread: Whether through its commandos or through strong-arm diplomacy, Israel appears to have stopped a shipment of missiles from reaching Iran. As the two countries work more closely together, it appears Israel avoided any post-op crisis and successfully negotiated with its much larger counterpart on the issue. Around the time the ship was discovered off the west coast of Africa, Israeli President Shimon Peres even declared victory of a kind...
...Israel’s success, however, does not come without a new and growing risk: preemptive action on a much larger scale. Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor of Israel has claimed “the clock is ticking” on negotiating with Iran about its nuclear program. According to Meridor, the United States and its Western allies have the chance to position Iran to stop its atomic projects, provided they apply the proper political and economic influence...
Silvio Berlusconi's struggle to outrun revelations about his private life has kept headline writers from Tallahassee to Tokyo busy for nearly six months now. The latest chapter began on Sept. 8, with the leaked court testimony of a Bari businessman accused of bringing prostitutes to the Italian Prime Minister's private residence in Rome. Though the deposition by Gianpaolo Tarantini confirmed Berlusconi's earlier claims that he didn't know the women were being paid, its contents were so juicy, it set off a whole new round of coverage. When Berlusconi was asked about Tarantini's testimony two days...
...Italy, though, Berlusconi's alleged romps and his heavy-handed attempts to fend off the allegations are just part of the story. In the land of Machiavelli, the one thing that gets as much attention as what's happening inside the Prime Minister's bedroom is what's happening in the political back rooms. (See Berlusconi's worst gaffes...