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POLITICS-US: Hard-line Neo-Cons Assail Israel for Timidity
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - While much of the world has criticised Israel for carrying out a "disproportionate" war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, hard-line neo-conservatives have attacked the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for timidity.
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MIDEAST: Veteran Policy-Makers Fear Disaster in U.S. Course
Analysis by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Alarms are definitely on the rise here.
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POLITICS-US: Neo-Conservatives' "Favourite Democrat" Falls
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Tuesday's defeat in Connecticut's primary election of President George W. Bush's "favourite Democrat", Sen. Joe Lieberman, by a little-known anti-war candidate marks a major setback to neo-conservative hopes of maintaining bipartisan support for the administration's aggressive foreign policies, particularly in the Middle East.
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POLITICS-US: Immigration Debate Splinters Conservatives
Analysis by Tom Barry*
SILVER CITY, New Mexico - Leading conservatives recently sent an open letter to U.S. President George W. Bush and congressional leaders stating that "enforcement first" measures should be central to any immigration policy reform.
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MIDEAST: Sunni-Shia Split Fades as Israel Presses Campaign
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Hopes by the George W. Bush administration for the emergence of an implicit Sunni-Israel alliance against an Iranian-led "Shia Crescent" have faded over the past week as Arab public opinion has become increasingly united by outrage over the Jewish state's continuing military campaign in Lebanon and Washington's refusal to stop it, according to Middle East experts here.
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POLITICS: Damascus Now Seen As Pivotal in Mideast Crisis
Analysis by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Mocked just months ago as a fool and a lightweight compared to his legendarily shrewd father, Syrian President Bashar Assad appears increasingly to have become the "go-to guy" in resolving the two-week-old war between Hezbollah and Israel.
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POLITICS-US: Bringing On "World War III"
Analysis by Bill Berkowitz*
OAKLAND, California - If you thought that a global conflagration on the order of a World War was more the stuff of Biblical prophecy, science fiction and apocalyptic end-times novels, think again.
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POLITICS-US: Mideast Conflict Boosts Chances of Iran-US Showdown
Analysis by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - The week-old Israeli-Hezbollah conflict is likely to boost the chances of U.S. military action against Iran, according to a number of regional experts who see a broad consensus among the U.S. political elite that the ongoing hostilities are part of a broader offensive being waged by Tehran against Washington across the region.
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POLITICS: Energised Neo-Cons Say Israel's Fight Is Washington's
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Seeing a major opportunity to regain influence lost as a result of setbacks in Iraq, prominent neo-conservatives are calling for unconditional U.S. support for Israel's military offensives in Gaza and Lebanon and "regime change" in Syria and Iran, as well as possible U.S. attacks on Tehran's nuclear facilities in retaliation for its support of Hezbollah.
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/REPEAT/POLITICS-US: Cowboy Diplomacy Is Not Dead Yet
Analysis by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - "We don't negotiate with evil; we defeat it."
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MIDEAST: Israel Readies for Iran Showdown by Attacking Lebanon
Analysis by Trita Parsi*
WASHINGTON - As the fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah persists, an Israeli strategy of enlarging the conflict seems to be crystallising.
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The Neo-Conservative Ascendancy in the Bush Administration

J im Lobe, who has worked as IPS' correspondent in the Washington, D.C., bureau for most of the last 23 years, has followed the ups and downs of neo-conservatives since the well before their rise in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda attacks on New York and the Pentagon, and his expertise has been recognized by major international media, including the 'Four Corners' public affairs programme of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australia Broadcasting Corporation; the BBC's 'Panorama' news magazine and the London-based Al Hayat newspaper, among others.

IPS has compiled all of Jim's stories on the neo-conservative ascendancy that he has written for IPS over the last several years on this website for those interested in learning more about the neo-conservatives, their networks and remarkable success in gaining influence over Bush's foreign policy.
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