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Topic: Leon Panetta

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September 16, 2012
8:59 am

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy Dan Meridor in his office, in April (photo credit Noam Moskowitz/ Flash90)

Dan Meridor: Netanyahu is not trying to push the US into a corner

After Panetta calls PM’s demand for red lines unrealistic, deputy PM says Israel and the US are on the same page when it comes to Iran

September 16, 2012
2:03 am

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, foreground, and Joint Chiefs of Staff head Martin Dempsey speaking to a Congressional hearing in 2012. (photo credit: Department of Defense/Glenn Fawcett)

Panetta: Setting Iran red lines would paint US into a corner

US defense secretary tell Foreign Policy that in ‘real world’ leaders don’t operate according to red lines

By Joshua Davidovich and Times of Israel staff

September 15, 2012
4:00 pm

US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta meets with Israeli president Shimon Peres (not seen) in Peres' office in Jerusalem. August 01, 2012. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Panetta says Pentagon pre-positioning forces for additional unrest

From the web Foreign Policy: Defense secretary says US is arranging military forces so it can respond to turmoil in as many as 17 or 18 places, dismisses debate over identifying ‘red lines’ in Iran’s nuclear program

September 15, 2012
12:36 am

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testifying in Congress in March. (photo credit: AP)

Panetta calls Cairo to reaffirm ‘strategic partnership’

Egyptian defense minister reassures US defense chief that Egypt remains committed to ties with Washington, security of American diplomatic personnel and property

September 12, 2012
11:58 am

MK Isaac Herzog (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90)

Labor MK blasts Netanyahu, Barak for ‘blatant interference’ in US elections over Iran

Isaac Herzog likens the tactic of ‘lighting fires and putting them out’ to Münchausen syndrome, in which patients feign illness for attention

By Michal Shmulovich

September 11, 2012
5:24 pm

Leon Panetta visiting the site of the September 11, 2001, Flight 93 crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Monday. (photo credit: Department of Defense/Chad J. McNeeley)

Panetta says US will have a year to stop Iran should it decide to build nukes

Defense secretary says Pentagon keeps close track of Tehran’s progress and would ‘have the opportunity’ to take the necessary action

By Joshua Davidovich

August 30, 2012
6:06 am

Amir Peretz (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel can afford to wait on Iran, not on peace, says former defense minister

In an interview with The Times of Israel, Amir Peretz warns of the perils of diplomatic stagnation and urges Netanyahu to meet Abbas’s pre-conditions for talks

By Elhanan Miller

August 24, 2012
8:35 am

The USS Stennis, which is heading to the Persian gulf. (photo credit: Department of Defense/Randi R. Brown, U.S. Navy)

US sending aircraft carrier back to Persian Gulf four months early

Defense secretary tells sailors early deployment needed amid Iran and Syria fears

By Times of Israel staff

August 22, 2012
4:49 pm

Sticks and stones: Iran’s empty threats and Israel’s gross overreaction

A study of Iranian rhetoric in context reveals an aggrandizement policy aimed at deterring those, Israel included, that threaten the regime — but no trace of a credible military threat

By George Boone

August 21, 2012
10:33 pm

A Syrian man walks by a building destroyed in an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria on Aug. 17 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Assad’s regime steps up use of air power

If a no-fly zone is enforced, Western aircraft will likely go head-to-head with the Syrian air force

By Hamza Hendawi and Slobodan Lekic

August 21, 2012
6:06 pm

Leon Panetta (center) met with Fieldmarshal Tantawi and President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, in July (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

US defense secretary tries to help secure Sinai with intel aid

From the web CNN: Pentagon’s offer meant to combat terror cells and reassure Israel amid Egyptian military buildup

August 16, 2012
8:39 am

Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Oren: Setting Iran back by only a few years still worth strike

‘One year in the Middle East is a long time,’ ambassador to US says