The Middle East Media Sampler 8/15/2012: Not All Media Want Iran Talks To Go On Forever

From DG:

1) The Washington Post surpasses the New York Times

Thirty years ago if you asked me, I would have said that the editorial position of the New York Times was more sympathetic to Israel than that of the Washington Post. Things have changed a lot. Yesterday's New York Times editoiral, Israel and Iran was neatly summed up by Jonathan Schanzer:

It's wrong to talk about pre-empting someone threatening to shoot you when you can still try to reason with him.