Clinton ‘Legacy’ Watch #3: Saddam Lives to Fight Another Day
(Washington, D.C.): Like prestidigitators bent on distracting observers from the locus of the real action, the Clinton Administration would have...
Middle East
Give peace a chance: No more blank checks for Arafat
The House of Representatives is expected today to consider a singularly important amendment to the Fiscal Year 1998 Foreign Operations...
The Map Is On The Wall: Arafat Wants No Part Of ‘Peaceful Co-Existence’ With Israel, Must Get No More U.S. Aid Until He Does
(Washington, D.C.): Fifty years ago this month, a converted cruise ship dubbed the S.S. Exodus 1947 left France in the...
Freeing and Strengthening Freedom Radios May Be Helms-Biden Reorganization Initiative’s Most Important Achievement
(Washington, D.C.): The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled this afternoon to complete work on legislation intended to reorganize and...
‘Where’s the Beef?’ Washington Post Reporting About Israel’s Ambassador Smacks of Propaganda
(Washington, D.C.): The front page of today's Washington Post featured an extraordinary, above-the-fold article entitled, "A Top U.S. Official May...
Har Homa Is a Test of the ‘Peace Process’: Arab Violence Will Prove the Process to be Simply Warfare by Other Means
(Washington, D.C.): The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce today that it will go ahead...
There You Go Again’: Arafat Reneges On The PLO Covenant, Prepares For War Against Israel; Some ‘Partner For Peace’!
(Washington, D.C.): With the signing of the recent Hebron agreement between the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestine...
The Road To A Palestinian State
(Washington, D.C.): Samuel Johnson once declared that "Hell is paved with good intentions." The people of Israel seem increasingly likely...
A Pig In A Poke? New U.S. Promises Are No Substitute For Arafat Fulfilling Commitments He Has Already Made
(Washington, D.C.): According to respected New York Times columnist A.M. Rosenthal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to agree to...
What Is U.S. Policy Toward Syria?
(Washington, D.C.): In recent weeks, the Syrian dictatorship of Hafez Assad has signaled its abiding malevolence in a number of...
On My Mind; ‘Judaizing Jerusalem’
By: A.M. Rosenthal The New York Times, December 20, 1996 "The Israelis are trying to Judaize Arab East Jerusalem." All...
Will Dennis Ross Broker A Hebron Deal Right Into The Hands Of The De-Judaizers?
(Washington, D.C.): As President Clinton's Middle East envoy, Dennis Ross, shuttles around the region seeking a compromise that will induce...
Israeli Settlements: Legitimate, Democratically Mandated, Vital to Israel’s Security And, Therefore, in U.S. Interest
(Washington, D.C.): The past few days have seen an escalating effort on the part of past and present U.S. government...
A Deadly Silence On Iraq
By: Jim Hoagland The Washington Post, November 8, 1996 Rolf Ekeus and his courageous band of United Nations arms inspectors...
This time, get Saddam: Cut this cancer out now, before the Butcher of Baghdad becomes even deadlier
By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. USA Today, September 4, 1996 The proverbial handwriting is now clearly on the wall. The...
Unfinished Business: Christopher, Perry Depart But Saddam Abides — Will ‘Clinton II’ Finally Put Him Out of Business?
(Washington, D.C.): Lest anyone be tempted to mourn the departure from office of many of the Clinton Administration's senior security...