We wish our customers a Happy & Healthy New Year! ested, after touring Israel in July and meeting top security officials there, in targeting the five major re-insurers — the companies that underwrite insurance companies. A re-insurance boycott would go a substantial way toward crippling Iran's energy sector. The McCain campaign is similarly exercised about Iran, but is mapping a different approach focused on sup- porting internal political resistance to the regime. "I think you'll see John McCain, diplomatically, working very aggres- sively with countries throughout the Middle East who feel, and properly so, a threat from the rise of the Shi'a extremist regime, and try to get a larger condominium to address them:' said Richard Williamson, the Bush administration's envoy to Sudan who also is advising the McCain campaign. McCain officials did not return requests for interviews on the topic, but Williamson advocated a "soft" campaign of encouraging democrati- zation within Iran as well as building up a regional front that would isolate the regime. "There has to be a recognition that that regime has its own fissions and divisions within it:' he said, before rat- tling them off: "The balance of power between the president, Ahmadinejad, and the supreme leader, constituen- cies, it has economic growth problems; it has an increasingly dissatisfied younger population and the majority of the country is under 30 years of age, and it has stresses with neighbors:' Williamson added, "I think you're going to see John McCain utilizing the instruments he has been involved in, all over the world, in over 90 countries, in trying to help civil society, endemic democratic institutions grow." ❑ Answering Israel's Crit ics YSTYNA'S The Charge / i=a, 64,44,0eai-vcs In recent years, labor unions in several Western countries have employed strong language to attack Israel, condemning what they call the "apartheid wall" and urging an economic boycott of and divestment from the Jewish state. 31815 Southfield Rd. 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