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							<title><![CDATA[Realpolitik in the Middle East]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/05/09/realpolitik_in_the_middle_east_150913.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Palestine is the mother of all Middle East conflicts, runs the lore. Solve the problem, and peace will break out.
Where war has ruled since pre-Biblical times?
'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Levant,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Israel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Moshe Dayan once quipped, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'is the elephant path of history'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and those...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Vladimir Putin Saved NATO]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Josef Joffe argues that the Alliance was never as sclerotic as even many Western leaders presumed in recent years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Is the 'Indispensable Nation' in the Great Pandemic?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/28/where_is_the_indispensable_nation_in_the_great_pandemic.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine a coronavirus plague in the days when Bill Clinton glorified America as the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'indispensable nation.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Why this paean to American exceptionalism? His Secretary of State Madeleine Albright explained in 1998: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It is because we are America. We stand tall. We see farther...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Religion of Climatism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-religion-of-climatism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Greta Thunberg, the teenager from Stockholm, is the prophet of a new religion sweeping the West. Call it Climatism. Like any religion worthy of the name, it comes with its own catechism (what to believe) and eschatology (how the world will end). Thunberg'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bible is the latest report...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the World Wants Clinton to Win]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons Obama Could Learn From V-E Day]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Lessons+Obama+Could+Learn+From+V-E+Day&amp;oq=The+Lessons+Obama+Could+Learn+From+V-E+Day&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.111j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[NSA Harmed Transatlantic Relations More Than al-Qaeda Ever Could]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/11/04/nsa_harmed_transatlantic_relations_more_than_al-qaeda_ever_could_120557.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Every good spy story," my friendly (former) CIA operative told me, "has a beginning, a middle and an end. And so, the snooping on the German chancellor and her European colleagues will surely stop." He didn't say: "It won't resume." Because it always does in a new guise, perhaps more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China's Coming Economic Slowdown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/29/chinas_coming_economic_slowdown_120493.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The big question of the 20th century has not disappeared in the 21st: Who is on the right side of history? Is it liberal democracy, with power growing from the bottom up, hedged in by free markets, the rule of law, accountability and the separation of powers? Or is it despotic centralism...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Angela Merkel's Gilded Status Quo]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/24/angela_merkels_gilded_status_quo_120069.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By German standards, Angela Merkel scored a landslide victory in Sunday's election. But remember Midas, the mythical Greek king, who faced starvation because his touch turned everything'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'food and drink included'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'into gold. Chancellor Merkel appears to have the same touch. She...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Exploiting Obama's Foreign Policy Retreat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/05/exploiting_obamas_foreign_policy_retreat_119500.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA['We are extremely disappointed," the White House press secretary said after Moscow granted asylum to fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden. A nice understatement. Washington is now looking at the greatest counterintelligence failure since the Rosenbergs betrayed nuclear know-how to Stalin...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Festival of Hypocrisy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/12/a_festival_of_hypocrisy_119196.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The saga of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who has cracked open a leak as wide as the Titanic's, should make for a nice sequel to the "The Terminal." In that Spielberg movie, Tom Hanks'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'suddenly a man without country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is marooned at JFK airport. He...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. &amp; Germany: Two Great Powers, No Real Leadership]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/19/two_great_powers_no_real_leadership_118879.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When U.S. President Barack Obama pays his respects to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin this week, he will encounter a Germany that no sitting American president has encountered in many decades. No, not the "Fourth Reich" of punditry's fevered imagination. For the first time...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Have the U.S. and E.U. Ever Been So Troubled?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is no time for gloating, neither for Americans nor for  Europeans. For both sides are in deep economic trouble, only in  different ways. The U.S. runs the worst deficit (as share of GDP) since  World War II, and yet Keynesianism to the max won'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t budge the  unemployment rate'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'pace...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Krugman's Tales from the Crypt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/foreign-policy/76169/krugmans-tales-the-crypt</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If repetition doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t improve the argument, try escalation. Paul Krugman, Princeton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Nobel laureate-turned-columnist, has been haranguing the Europeans, and the Germans in particular, to drop their fiscal tightwad act: Don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t cut government spending, keep the deficits...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Geopolitics, Nice Guys Don't Win]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-age-of-nice--or-politics-as-psychiatry-15235</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will  Obama's administration end up as a remake of Jimmy Carter'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s? Carter started out with his own take on the "audacity of hope": let's lose our "inordinate fear of communism." Toward the end of his term'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'the Soviets had just invaded Afghanistan'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'he recanted. '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'That action had made a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe and Obama: Short-Term Relationship]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=572973ad-b3aa-4c8c-9881-4d6640ea7eb4</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josef Joffe</author>
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