From: "TED BELMAN" <tedbel1@israpundit.org>
Date: Sep 2, 2017 12:31 PM
Subject: ISRAPUNDIT DAILY DIGEST SEPT 02/17
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Posts Of TodayIsraeli and US experts say Pyongyang can no longer be reined in, but there's still a chance to thwart Tehran's atomic ambitions
A missile is test-launched by North Korea early Tuesday, July 4, 2017 (screen capture: Korean Central News Agency)For Iran, the atomic-armed North Korea offers a glimpse of a possible future, 20 years down the line, in which it has a nuclear weapon but paid a dear price for it.
The two countries have wildly different societies, and while North Korea has already created atomic bombs, Iran is not yet believed to possess any. But as international pariahs hell-bent on stocking nuclear weapons and the ballistic missiles to deliver them, Pyongyang and Tehran are inextricably linked.
Read more...T. Belman. I have know the author for at least 6 years during which time we have often communicated. He has a very unusual way of studying what is happening and relies on what leaders do, not what they say. His work is always worth reading. He focuses on Jews and Israel to a large extent.
By Francisco Gil-White, HIRHOME
Is US policy-making run by a bipartisan elite cartel? Perhaps the president is a figurehead; the media show changes, but the long-term goals—chosen by the CFR—are always the same. If so, Trump's Middle East policies will feel different, but they will yield familiar fruits.
Will Trump be different? Israeli patriots expect him to be. After all, he postures as an enemy of Iran and ISIS. But, what evidence will be diagnostic that Trump really is delivering on his Mideast promises?
Read more...By Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman, NYT – Sept 1/17
WASHINGTON — President Trump was in an especially ornery mood after staff members gently suggested he refrain from injecting politics into day-to-day issues of governing after last month's raucous rally in Arizona, and he responded by lashing out at the most senior aide in his presence.
It happened to be his new chief of staff, John F. Kelly.
Mr. Kelly, the former Marine general brought in five weeks ago as the successor to Reince Priebus, reacted calmly, but he later told other White House staff members that he had never been spoken to like that during 35 years of serving his country. In the future, he said, he would not abide such treatment, according to three people familiar with the exchange.
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