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October 3, 2012

Netanyahu's Red Lines Make No Sense

Tony Karon, The National

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The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, came to the United Nations last week to rally the world against a nuclear-armed Iran, but instead produced giggles in even some of the most pro-Israel sections of the US media - the cartoonish Wile E Coyote-style bomb graphic he'd used to illustrate Tehran's nuclear progress reinforced a sense that the Israeli leader may be hyping the threat.

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