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By July 26, 2012

Iranian Atomic Urgency

• Ain’t this rich? Iran’s UN ambassador blamed Israel for the Bulgarian bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists. More on Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee’s trash talk at AFP.

• Reuters: Dubai’s police chief, Dahi Khalfan, is worried about Iranian, Syrian and Muslim Brotherhood threats to the Gulf states. Another one of Khalfan’s snarky media games? Judge for yourself.

Arab Spring Winter

• Melanie Phillips wonders: How was Syria able to amass such a threatening stockpile of chemical and biological weapons?

• More commentary/analysis at Foreign Policy, CNN, Reuters, the Daily Telegraph and Hamilton Spectator.

Rest O’ the Roundup

• Walter Russell Mead (via Michael Totten) aptly responds to the EU’s decision not to designate Hezbollah as a terror organization:

But the EU has at least provided a new answer to an old question.

Q: What do you call something if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck?

A: A political wing.

• Israeli Businesses Losing the Cyberwar

(Image of Efrat via Wikimedia Commons/Bets Marcus)

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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