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July 5th

• ?Boycott, divestment and sanctions is the obvious place to begin? « P U L S E: To judge by the next day?s headlines, Benjamin Netanyahu?s policy speech last month was a great success. ?Israeli Premier Backs State for Palestinians,? declared the New York Times. ?Israel Endorses Two-State Goal,? said the Washington Post. ?Netanyahu Backs Palestinian State,? announced The Guardian. He did no such thing, of course, unless by ?state? one understands an amorphous entity lacking a definite territory, not allowed to control its own borders or airspace, shorn of any vestige of sovereignty, not allowed to enter into treaties with other states, permanently disarmed, at the mercy of Israel Those are the conditions that Netanyahu imposed on the creation of such an entity for the Palestinians (if they get that far in the first place). The strange thing is that Netanyahu?s speech marked both the definitive end and a symbolic return to the beginning of the two-state solution as that hapless notion has been peddled since the Oslo Accords of 1993-95.
• DPRK defector discussed financial flows (NKEconwatch, linking to Fox News Interview) (July 2 2009): Kim Kwang Jin believes the North Korean government has never negotiated in good faith . . . at the Six-Party nuclear disarmament talks. ?The North Koreans are coming to the table not for negotiation; they are there for winning, for implementing their strategy,? he said. To grant meaningful concessions at such negotiations, or to enact meaningful internal reforms toward democratizatio n, would, Kim says, be tantamount to ?suicide to the regime.? Yet Kim also believes financial sanctions can compel better behavior from Pyongyang, and cites as an example the Treasury Department?s targeting from 2005 to 2008 of . . . ?BDA,? . . . It was during this period . . . that the North made its most far-reaching concessions in the Six-Party Talks, only to renege on them once the sanctions were lifted. ?The BDA case was a frightening thing to the regime,? Kim said. ?It was a blow to [Kim Jong Il?s] personal funding, to the economic sector which is now supporting the regime.
• FBI reports describe Saddam Hussein's reasons for refusing UN inspectors ? Deposed dictator calls Osama bin Laden a 'zealot' ? Iraqi told interviewers religion and government 'should not mix': Saddam remained preoccupied with the threat from neighbouring Iran as the US-led invasion loomed and would have sought a security pact with the US if UN sanctions were lifted, he told an FBI interviewer in his jail cell before his execution. In interviews and casual talks, the deposed Iraqi leader told FBI questioners that he refused to allowed UN inspectors to re-enter the country because he feared they would reveal to his chief adversary Iran the severely degraded state of Iraq's weapons capability. Saddam, whom the successor Iraqi government hanged in Dec 2006, also denied having any connection to Osama bin Laden or al-Qaida, and said that if he wanted to join forces with a US enemy, he would have sought a pact with North Korea or China. Those details and others are revealed in newly released FBI reports of contacts between the jailed Hussein and FBI special agent George Piro, an Arabic speaker who met with the former Iraqi leader between February and June 2004.

July 4th

• Region readies for N. Korea missiles as U.S. talks sanctions (Reuters): Reuters - The U.S. pointman for sanctions on North Korea holds talks in Malaysia on Sunday, possibly on links banks have to the North's finances, while a report said Pyongyang may have shot mid-range missiles in a series fired on Saturday.
• WITNESS - Battling to Borrow Money In Sanctions - Hit Sudan - NYTimes.com
• North Korean Launches Affirm Need for Missile Defense (Heritage) (Klingner) (July 4 2009): . . . The Obama Administration should . . . reverse its proposed cuts to missile defense programs. In addition, the Obama Administration should use North Korea?s latest provocation to press China and Russia for agreement to a follow-on UN accord that eliminates the loopholes of UN Resolution 1874. That resolution included stronger language than its predecessors but Beijing and Moscow gutted proposed provisions that would have enabled nations to actually implement it. The feckless pursuit of the North Korean trawler Kang Nam . . . shows the wisdom of including in the resolution reference to Chapter 7, Article 42 of the UN Charter regarding the use military means to enforce the will of the Security Council. . . . Because China and Russia will remain resistant to effective UN resolutions, Washington should implement a comprehensive program to independently impose U.S. sanctions on any company, bank, or government agency complicit in North Korean proliferation . . .

July 3rd

• Missing the point on Myanmar | Asia Times Online: An interview with Burmese historian Thant Myint-U. Thant says a few intelligent things regarding the structure of the structure of Myanmar's regime, the numerous civil wars being fought in the Burmese back country, and the urgent need for Western investment if freedom is to ever be attained.
• Report: U.S. to block Iran sanctions at G8 summit - Haaretz - Israel News

July 1st

• Second Thoughts on North Korea?s Inscrutable Ship | NY Times, July 1, 2009
• U.S. Levies Economic Sanctions on North Korea (Heritage) (Bruce Klingner) (July 1 2009): Hopefully realizing the futility of relying on U.N. actions to constrain North Korean belligerence, on June 30 the Obama Administration imposed unilateral U.S. sanctions on two North Korean companies engaged in proliferation. The U.S. action marks a commendable first step in using financial constraints to address the North Korean WMD threat. These sanctions will augment efforts to curtail the North Korean regime's ability to develop and sell weapons of mass destruction and missiles. For these sanctions to be as effective as possible, however, the U.S. must aim for both ends of the proliferation pipeline. Washington should implement a comprehensive program to impose sanctions on any company, bank, or government agency complicit in North Korean proliferation, particularly those in Iran, Syria, Burma, and China. Washington should also lead a multilateral initiative . . . calling upon other nations to . . . target North Korean and foreign proliferators . . .
• U.S. Targets North Korea's Missile, Nuclear Activities - NYTimes.com
• The Abandonment of Democracy - WSJ.com: JOSHUA MURAVCHIK
• Congress and Israel supporters focus on Iran | Spero News
• Obama Opposes Trade Sanctions in Climate Bill - NYTimes.com
• How to Stop North Korea's Weapons Proliferation

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