 Israel's Battle To Win Public Opinion
Ambassador of Israel
David Ivry
On June 7, 1981, Maj. Gen. David Ivry, commander of the Israeli Air Force, held his breath as Israeli fighter jets— flying low to avoid radar detection— entered Iraqi airspace and blew up a secret reactor that would have eventually given Saddam Hussein nuclear bomb-making capability.
All of Israel’s enemies, and even some of its friends, expressed outrage. But 10 years later, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney presented Ivry with a satellite reconnaissance photo of the destroyed reactor...
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Then, They Were Twelve
Offer insight into Women's Diplomacy
Then, They Were Twelve: The Women of Washington’s Embassy Row” by Marilyn Sephocle chronicles the experiences and views of the dozen women ambassadors who worked in Washington in the late 1990s.
The book is a useful contribution to the literature of diplomacy and provides interesting and important insights on how diplomacy is practiced by women ambassadors in Washington, D.C...
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Dulles, BWI Vie For International Airport Traffic
After years of relative obscurity, Washington’s Dulles International Airport and, to a much lesser extent, Baltimore-Washington International Airport, are finally showing up on the radar screens of foreign airlines eager to crack one of the nation’s most lucrative business and ethnic travel markets...
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 Former Iranian Diplomat Determined to Bridge Islamic World and the West
CSIS Analyst Shireen Tahmasseb Hunter
From her small, cluttered office in downtown Washington, D.C., Shireen Tahmasseb Hunter is trying to make the Islamic world more understandable to the people of the West...
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Change of Government in Mexico Opens Up Investment Opportunities
During the past month, while most of Washington’s attention was focused on the never-ending election recount battle between George W. Bush and Al Gore, newly installed President Vicente Fox was quietly consolidating power just south of the border in Mexico...
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Kuwait Embassy Office Breaks Tradition With New Management Style
Something weird is happening at the Kuwait Information Office.
They’ve tossed out the old, traditional way of running an embassy office and imported a new, flat structure...
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