Tony Karon
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Tony Karon is a senior editor at TIME.com where he analyzes the Middle East and other international conflicts. He also runs his own website, Rootless Cosmopolitan.

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Two Minutes to Midnight? Cutting Through the Media's Bogus Bomb-Iran Debate

Posted August 24, 2010 | 15:37:50 (EST)

Crossposted on TomDispatch

America's march to a disastrous war in Iraq began in the media, where an unprovoked U.S. invasion of an Arab country was introduced as a legitimate policy option, then debated as a prudent and necessary one. Now, a similarly flawed media conversation on Iran is...

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Israel Won't Change Unless the Status Quo Has a Downside

Posted March 23, 2010 | 18:38:00 (EST)

Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com.

Uncomfortable at the spectacle of the Obama administration in an open confrontation with the Israeli government, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman -- who represents the interests of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party on Capitol Hill as faithfully as he does those of the health insurance...

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Change Gaza Can Believe In

Posted January 22, 2009 | 19:26:44 (EST)

Lest President Barack Obama's opportunistic silence when Israel began the Gaza offensive that killed more than 1,400 Palestinians (more than 400 of them children) be misinterpreted, his aides pointed reporters to comments made six months earlier in the Israeli town of Sderot. "If somebody was sending rockets into my house,...

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