POINTS EAST & WEST
July/August 2009
‘Why should we be surprised that Ahmadinejad won? When has a dictatorship ever given way to change peacefully?’
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June 2009
‘The most liberal US President since JFK and a right-wing Israeli Prime Minister appear to be on a collision course’
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May 2009
‘Engagement with the Iranians, Syrians or North Koreans, while leaving their dissidents to languish in prison, will achieve little’
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April 2009
‘An Iranian bomb would enable Tehran to fulfil the goals of the revolution without using it’
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Points East & West
Emanuele Ottolenghi’s monthly column on international politics and the Middle East, written from Brussels.
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