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Saul Singer is Editorial Page Editor and author of the weekly column “Interesting Times” for the Jerusalem Post. He is the author of Confronting Jihad: Israel's Struggle and the World After 9/11. Before moving to Israel from the Washington area in 1994, Mr. Singer served for ten years as an advisor on the personal and committee staffs of the United States Congress, including the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Senate Banking Committee, and Senator Connie Mack. Close.

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Stiffer Sanctions for Iran

Jerusalem, Israel - Three top Israeli officials were widely discredited in the public's eye by their handling of last summer's war in Lebanon -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz, and IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz. I predict that at the end of 2007 Olmert will still be premier, but Peretz will be out of the cabinet or hold a different post, and Halutz will have resigned.

I also predict that in 2007 U.S. and European sanctions against Iran will tighten significantly, but not enough for Iran to give up its nuclear program. Further, if a war is renewed between Israel and Hamas, Hezbollah, or Syria, or if there are further 9/11-style attacks, this will accelerate rather than deter the West's sanctions campaign.

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Posted by Saul Singer on January 3, 2007 6:00 AM

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