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Israel: West Must Unite with Russia, China Against Iran
[Bloomberg] Gwen Ackerman and Calev Ben-David - - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the U.S. and Europe should put aside differences with China and Russia over human-rights and missile-defense issues to focus on working together to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. "The triad of nuclear proliferation, radical Muslim terror, and rogue states, epitomized in the Iran case, can be defeated only through a paradigm shift in international relationships," Barak said in an interview. "The time for sanctions is still there, but it is short,'' he said. "The way I see to make it effective is to cut through the psychological obstacles about cooperating with Russia and China and open a new discourse." Barak noted that Israel faces threats not only from Iran, but also from its proxies in south Lebanon and Gaza. More than 140 rockets and mortar shells have been fired at Israel from Gaza over the past two weeks.