Now Hear This’: Does the President Mean What He Says?
(Washington, D.C.): Every skilled government official knows the magic words: "What the President meant to say is...." And with good...
Middle East
Mideast Vision Thing’: Will Powell et.Al. Blind President Bush to the Palestinians’ Abiding Goal of Judenrein?
(Washington, D.C.): About a decade ago, a President named George Bush dismissed criticism that he was pursuing short-sighted policies by...
Getting History — and the Future — Right
(Washington, D.C.): Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon recently infuriated President Bush by drawing a parallel between the sell-out of Czechoslovakia...
The War on Terror Should Bring Down Sponsoring Regimes, Not Create Them in Palestine’
(Washington, D.C.): One of the few good things to be said about the war against the United States that entered...
A Time to Choose
(Washington, D.C.): Among the most memorable passages in President Bush's extraordinary address to the Joint Session of Congress on September...
Why a Good Fence’ Won’t Make Good Mideast Neighbors
(Washington, D.C.): In recent weeks, there has been a growing chorus involving, among others, normally sagacious observers of the international...
Antidote to Outrageous Palestinian Revisionism and Agitprop
(Washington, D.C.): In the past, it was said that those who fail to study history are condemned to repeat it....
Required Reading: Journal’s Pollack and Post’s Kelly Lay Bare the Bankruptcy of U.S. Moral Equivalence in the Mideast
(Washington, D.C.): Arabists in the State Department are clearly hoping to do a make-over on a President who came to...
Bush and The Big Scam’
(Washington, D.C.): George W. Bush may be physically vacationing in Texas but the prospect of a widening conflict in the...
Stand by Israel
(Washington, D.C.): President Bush is getting plenty of unsolicited advice these days about the metastasizing situation in the Middle East....
Don’t Go There: U.S. Monitors’ Will Not Promote Mideast Peace
(Washington, D.C.): President Bush campaigned for his present job on a platform that promised to end inappropriate overseas deployments of...
Proof of the Palestinians’ Pudding
(Washington, D.C.): The Palestinian leadership's latest gambit is an appeal to Western moral equivalence involving the insertion of "international observers"...
What is Really Wrong With The Middle East Peace’ Picture
(Washington, D.C.): As the Bush Administration finds itself being inexorably drawn once again into the role of mediator in the...
Arafat’s True Colors: A Murderous Terrorist — with American Blood on His Hands
(Washington, D.C.): Thanks to the integrity and courage of a former National Security Agency intelligence analyst, a dirty little secret...
Truth and Consequences for Saddam
(Washington, D.C.) At his press conference last Thursday, President Bush reiterated a commitment he has made repeatedly in recent months:...
Don’t Throw Good Money After Bad in the Middle East
(Washington, D.C.): The Bush Administration has apparently decided on the eve of Secretary of State Colin Powell's trip to the...