By steadily improving relations with Turkey and hobnobbing with Jordan's King Abdullah, Iran's rulers seem to be quietly ending its castigation of Muslim countries that do business with Israel.

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His consistent castigation of Israel as obstructionist and defiant has led some surveys to claim that over the past year US popular support for Israel has dropped from 77 to 58 percent.

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Any move that Israel makes toward these leaders will simply facilitate their further castigation of the Jewish state and support their clear intentions to do nothing to prevent Iran from acquiring the means to destroy Israel.

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She never mentions Amy Winehouse by name, but from the castigation of her target's "junkie routine" to the hip-hop sheen coating the girl-group glitter of multi-instrumentalist Adam Pallin's brightly chiming piano, it could hardly be anyone else.

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More public castigation of Rumsfeld followed.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Rummy's bad rap

This week Iran staged yet another "Destroy Israel" conference in Teheran, replete with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's trademark Holocaust denial, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's ritual castigation of the Jewish state as a "cancerous tumor, " and the US as a treacherous enemy, and Ali Larijani's threat to attack Israel's suspected nuclear sites.

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