BULLETIN No.92

PINR "The Israeli Elections: A Recipe for Further Crisis" Full text of report
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The Hamas Dilemma Hamas doesn't deserve to be treated like a democratic government, but it has something Israelis want: a cease-fire.
Der Spiegel SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH ISRAEL'S FOREIGN MINISTER "We Must Remain Resolute with Hamas"
Weekly Standard The Latest Zionist Conspiracy Hamas explains why American Christians support Israel.by Mark D. Tooley
Palestinians starting to feel the aid pinch Funding cuts to the Hamas government are having an impact on everyday life.
Freed - with a huge debt and empty purse Fatah left Palestine with a crippling $1.2 billion of debt - and it is up to Hamas to fix it, says the new Finance minister

ChamPress
Arab reform, a boxer in between rounds - Rami G. Khouri
Professor says U.S. misunderstands Syria's complexity

Washington Institute How Much Do the EU and Russia Care about Iran? Walter Posch, Vladimir Esveev, and Patrick Clawson
Guardian If ever there was a nation not to drive to extremes, it is Iran Simon Jenkins: The US and Britain are goading Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, while Blair's jihadist rhetoric is inciting a fourth crusade.
Washington Post An Iranian Missile Crisis? By David Ignatius,
Bush's advisers -- and most of all, the president himself -- must keep searching for ways to escape the inexorable logic that is propelling the United States and Iran toward war.
How to Get Out of the Iran Trap
Anatol Lieven
CFR IRAN CLAIMS TO ENRICH URANIUM
Stratfor Iran: Crossing the Red Line? Iranian officials are trumpeting a major advance in their country's nuclear program. Here is what it means -- and does not mean.
Debka US-Iranian Iraq Dialogue Fails Before Starting
Jerusalem Post Analysis: Iran's misguided ploy?
Christian Science Monitor Calculus of a military strike against Iran
Asia Times Iran flirts with confrontation The best-case scenario for Tehran is that the US military is forced to withdraw from Iraq, leaving Iran with a dominant sphere of influence over a Shi'ite-dominated Iraq. The worst-case scenario is that the US or Israel launches a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Iranian leaders will resort to complex brinkmanship and tactical retreats to get the outcome they want.
New York Times Iran Reports Big Advance in Enrichment of Uranium
An Iranian Missile Crisis? By David Ignatius, Bush's advisers -- and most of all, the president himself -- must keep searching for ways to escape the inexorable logic that is propelling the United States and Iran toward war.
The Human Costs ofBombing Iran by Matthew Rothschild
US Iran Strike Planning 'Similar to Iraq'
BBC US condemns Iran nuclear advance The United States says Iran is "moving in the wrong direction" by announcing it has enriched uranium.
Iran raises stakes in nuclear row
Iran 'years from nuclear bomb'
Q&A: Iran nuclear stand-off
Mehran Riazaty: Iran Analyst Iran: Unclear Activities, Oil Price, and Iraq
Yedioth Ahronoth 'Iran on fast track to Bomb' Israeli security officials worry Iranian president's statements country succeeded in enriching uranium pose real threat, warn international community not moving fast enough with sanctions against Muslim republic
WSJ Iranian Bomb Scare It's irresponsible not to have military plans.
Editorial Iran: A credible threat? Bush's reasonable (public) position on Iran suffers from his own credibility gap.

Los Angeles Times U.S. leaders to Iraq: Unite or fail By Zalmay Khalilzad and George W. Casey Jr
UPI Analysis: Who are the players in Iraq?
Debka US-Iranian Iraq Dialogue Fails Before Starting
New Republic What went wrong in Iraq? Cobra II is the best attempt yet to answer the question. by David Rieff
Group seeks Iraq solution A high-level bipartisan group, asked by policy-makers to come up with new solutions to the challenges in Iraq, said yesterday that it was proceeding with "a sense of urgency."
Los Angeles Times U.S. leaders to Iraq: Unite or fail By Zalmay Khalilzad and George W. Casey Jr.
The U.S. ambassador and top general in Iraq say the country must come together to face a harsh sectarian test.
Iraqi Institutions Drifting in a Postelection Limbo
Slate Cousins in Arms: What Lebanon's civil war might tell us about Iraq. Michael Young

UPI Outside View: Dark demographics Some analysts have been focusing on the economic and demographic pressures that drive the Middle East towards terrorism and extremism.
Things Aren't What They Used To Be Moshe Dayan Center for Middle East Studies A 2-page analysis of the reasons for the impasse at the Khartoum Arab Summit
'Islamic terrorism' too emotiveEuropean governments should shun the phrase "Islamic terrorism" in favour of "terrorists who abusively invoke Islam," guidelines from EU officials have said.