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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Bibi Threatens To Bomb Iran

By Marc Ambinder

Mar 31 2009, 1:16 PM ET Comment

In an interview with the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, the new Israeli Prime Minister challenges Barack Obama to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons - an event Israeli intelligence believes is imminent. If Obama fails, Israel might attack. Within months. Not a big policy change here, but the apocalyptic tone of Netanyahu's rhetoric, on the eve of the G20, suggests to me that the new Israeli government wants to rattle the cage a bit.



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