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H1 New York Times Clinton to End Bid and Endorse Obama Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring to a close her 17-month campaign for the White House after Democrats urged her to allow the party to unite

Wall Street Journal Clinton Unlikely as No. 2 Hillary Clinton, who refused to concede after Barack Obama claimed the Democratic presidential nomination, will do so Saturday, two top advisers said. Obama assembled a three-person team to lead his search for a running mate, but close advisers signaled an Obama-Clinton ticket was highly unlikely

CBS Poll: Obama Leads McCain Read The Complete CBS News Poll On The General Election

Independent Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.

Ali Allawi: This raises huge questions over our independence

Differences Between US, Iraq on Security Treaty Outlined - UK Arabic Paper

Forward Obama Tells Aipac He’ll Do ‘Everything It Takes’ To Stop Iran From Getting Nukes

Text of Obama’s AIPAC speech

Foreign Policy Seven Questions: The New World Energy Order

Living with a Nuclear Iran - Richard Haass, CNAS / CFR

The Rise of Middle East Peacemakers - Hady Amr, Brookings

Slate Is Barack Obama Too Naive To Be President? Not in the post-Cold War world. Fred Kaplan

The Iraq War: Key Trends and Developments - Anthony Cordesman, CSIS

Israeli and Syrian Weapons of Mass Destruction - Anthony Cordesman, CSIS

Moscow's Fig Leaf By: Mark Leonard | The Moscow Times
The West could be sleepwalking into a war on the European continent. Georgia, which burst into view with a moving display of democratic ambition during the Rose Revolution of 2003, is teetering on the brink of war with Russia over the separatist Georgian enclave of Abkhazia

Top ten solutions to the world’s biggest problems. The Copenhagen Consensus says micronutrients must take the highest priority... more»

The Afghan-Pakistan War: A Status Report - Anthony Cordesman, CSIS

Diplomatic Strategies for Dealing with Iran - Dennis Ross, CNAS

The Implications of Military Confrontation with Iran - Vali Nasr, CNAS

Military Elements in Dealing with Iran's Nuclear Program - Ashton Carter, CNAS

Ha’aretz – Obama tells AIPAC: Jerusalem will remain Israel's undivided capital Abbas blasts Obama's speech, saying Palestinians will not accept a state without Jerusalem as its capital

Olmert to AIPAC: We must stop Iran threat by all possible means

Rosner's Domain / It's Obama's good intentions for Israel that AIPAC fears Obama is smarter than the electorate, and it is doubtful he will carry out all of his fanciful promises

Approaching an Iranian winter Ari Shavit There is a real possibility that President George W. Bush will end his woeful second and final term of office with a bang, not a whimper.

Jerusalem Post Olmert: Fewer questions remain on US stance on Iran Following meeting with President Bush, PM tells reporters that "real strides" are being made every day to deal with the problem.

US intel chief to consult with IDF

US official McConnel to make rare visit to Israel amid reports that Bush considering action on Iran.

Obama vs. McCain on the ME

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Washington Post Pushing Bush to Attack Iran By Dan Froomkin

Q & A with President Assad in Dubai

The Union for the Mediterranean: A View from Southern Europe IAI A 13-page Italian perspective on the French proposal to promote a Mediterranean Union

POLITICS-IRAQ: Possible Deal on Kirkuk Could Be a Stabiliser

Obama Promises Undivided Jerusalem as Israeli Capital by Eli Lake

What Will Matter is How the War Ends, Not How it Started by Marty Peretz

How to measure al Qaeda's defeat by Walid Phares

Next step: undermining Resolution 1701 by Michael Young

RFE/RLRussia: Medvedev’s "Liberal" Views Up For Inspection In Berlin

The Other Enemy - Ralph Peters, Armed Forces Journal Can we win in Afghanistan?

Iraqi Force Development 2008 - Cordesman and Mausner, CSIS

‘Radical pragmatism’ and the Jordanian option, MESH

Iran: The Media and the Conservatives' Power Struggle | Stratfor

ABCNEWS: Clinton Will Drop Out of Presidential Race

Scheuer - Rumors of al-Qaeda’s Death May Be Highly Exaggerated

Guardian Obama resists Clinton pressure for joint ticket

Defeated rival to bow out of campaign, but push continues to include her in vice president role

Middle of where? Brian Whitaker: The Middle East may be a crucially important region politically and economically, but try getting your hands on a decent definition of it

Hard core of Clinton's fans threaten to resist Obama

A moment of history and hope

Editorial: Thousands of black Americans still alive today can easily remember the time when no one of their race could cast a vote in a presidential election

Obama is Europe's dream candidate, but we may have to settle for McSame Timothy Garton Ash: We'd like the Democratic victor in charge but must still prepare for a hawkish McCain presidency, and advance our own agenda

Financial Times An Obama-Clinton dream ticket? If Mr Obama takes his disappointed rival on to the ticket, he will look weak; if he does not, he will offend her supporters. The second is the lesser evil

Clinton to quit after intense pressure

Following intense pressure from senior supporters, Hillary Clinton’s campaign confirmed she would concede the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama on Saturday

Obama’s task Gideon Rachman’s blog: This election should be a shoo-in for the Democratic party - but the polls suggest otherwise. Should we believe them?

Rivals adopt tough stance on Tehran Barack Obama began his first full day as the Democratic party’s presumptive presidential nominee by emphasising the option of using military force against Iran and calling on Israel to maintain Jerusalem as its undivided capital – despite ongoing peace talks with the Palestinians

View from Europe: Europe pins its hopes on Obama Oxford University’s Timothy Garton Ash on the prospects for US relations with Europe

Gideon Rachman on the next steps for Obama The Democratic nominee must turn his attention to Republican rival John McCain

Bernanke and the dollar The last thing any central bank should do is comment on currencies. Mr Bernanke’s comments were seen as heralding no further rate cuts

America the Breakup Artist By: Juan Gabriel Tokatlian | The Christian Science Monitor Sovereignty and territorial integrity are sacred concepts to every nation. Without them, the basis for international relations crumbles. That's why it's so troubling that the United States is in effect stimulating a partition movement across the globe.

IHT Roger Cohen: Energy lessons Countries do get rebranded. Energy is the new Brazilian brand

German government backs enhanced surveillance Despite strong criticism, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government agreed Wednesday to give police forces greater powers to monitor homes, phones and private computers.

At food crisis talks, menu is rich with politics It was supposed to be an emergency conference on food shortages, climate change and energy. But the powerful politicians from all over the world spoke mostly about economics and politics.

WP Father of Pakistan's Bomb Stands Defiant Khan, Speaking Out From House Arrest, Insists Government Officials Had Role in Proliferation

Can US and Iraq Have a Long-Term Relationship? - Mohammad, Iraq the Model

Obama And Iraq - Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish

Ahmadinejad's Past Tells it All - Olivier Guitta, Middle East Times opinion

WSJ It's Time to Talk to Syria
By John Kerry and Chuck Hagel Our policy has isolated us, not Damascus.

Obama's Vice President
He can't appear to be bullied by the House of Clinton.

Lincoln's Rule: Organization Matters
By Karl Rove Public interest will pick up with a bang in August. The candidates need to be ready.

The Buck Stops Where?
Bernanke discovers he and the world have a dollar problem.

Why Obama Must Go to Iraq
By Pete Hegseth The would-be commander in chief has no firsthand knowledge of what's going on.

LA Times Analysis: Obama vs. McCain, by the map

Obama the naive By John R. Bolton His views on world affairs ignore history and imperil the U.S. and our allies

Time Clinton's Exit: A Post-Mortem

Salon We are all appeasers now The GOP and establishment media are attacking Barack Obama for being willing to talk to "terrorists" -- but many parties, including Israel, are doing just that.
By Gary Kamiya

Commentary: Rainbow -- or Guns of August? By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE (UPI) -- Iran’s president renews his death threats against Israel -- but finds himself in hot water at home. His would-be successor speaks softly, but can he change the mullahs’ nuclear ambitions? The Israelis don’t think so.

BBC Saudis launch Islamic unity drive Saudi Arabia's king urges Muslims to speak with one voice ahead of a planned interfaith dialogue with Jews and Christians.

H 2 Ian Lesser GMF Turkey's Travails: Outlook and Strategic Consequences The possible implications of Turkey's current political crisis for Turkey's society and its foreign policy