Refusenik: Sharansky’s Dissent At The Undoing of the Jewish State
(Washington, D.C.): On the eve of tomorrow's meeting between Bill Clinton and Ehud Barak in Berlin, a pivotal member of...
Egypt
Arrest Assad, Don’t Treat with Him
(Washington, D.C.): President Clinton today announced that he would be meeting Hafez Assad in Geneva next Sunday. The transparent purpose...
Israel’s Ticking ‘Time Bomb’
(Washington, D.C.): Even by Mideast standards, last weekend's announcement by the Arab League that Israel risked war if it withdrew...
Nix to Blix: Man Who Certified Iraq as Non-Nuclear is Unlikely to Find — or Even to Seek — Saddam’s Hidden Weapons
(Washington, D.C.): In a hugely disappointing decision yesterday to fill a senior UN bureaucratic post, the Security Council spoke volumes...
Israeli Control of the Golan Remains Strategically Critical
(Washington, D.C.): Today's Washington Post gives front-page treatment to a study released last month by the Tel Aviv University's Center...
U.S. Forces on the Golan Heights?
General John Foss (USA, Ret.), Commanding General U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; formerly responsible for U.S. forces in the...
Will the Syrian-Israeli ‘Peace Process’ Give War a Chance?
(Washington, D.C.): When Syrian and Israeli negotiators reconvene their negotiations in Washington next month, they may or may not make...
Now‘s the Time to Address the Costs of a Golan Deal
(Washington, D.C.): "Premature." That's the word Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and other Administration officials are using to finesse legitimate...
Are U.S. ‘Investments’ in the Mideast ‘Peace Process’ Giving the Arabs a New War Option?
(Washington, D.C.): One of the predictable upshots of today's meeting between Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Israeli Foreign Minister...
Hillary’s ‘Conversion’ on Jerusalem Does Not Reflect Her Husband’s Policy — or Her Own, Long-held Views
(Washington, D.C.): Yesterday, First Lady/proto-Senate Candidate Hillary Clinton demonstrated anew the behavior that prompted Bill Safire to describe her as...
Arafat’s Bait and Switch on Statehood: Resolution 181
(Washington, D.C.): Today is the day Yasser Arafat had announced that he would declare a Palestinian state. Although he chose...
Honor King Hussein: Thwart Palestinian Statehood
(Washington, D.C.): Amid the funeral dirges accompanying the eulogies for Jordan's King Hussein, a seemingly inappropriate musical number keeps coming...
Clinton’s ‘Fanatic’ Pursuit Of Mideast ‘Peace Process’ Is Endangering Israel, U.S. Regional interests
(Washington, D.C.): Author and philosopher George Santayana once defined a fanatic as someone "who redoubles his effort upon losing sight...
Israeli Cabinet Action on Wye Accord Offers Chance to Rethink, Alter Ill-Advised U.S. Role in its Implementation
(Washington, D.C.): Approval today of the Wye agreement -- on the basis of the vote of a minority of the...
Mission Impossible: Wye Deal Poses Threat to U.S. Intelligence — As Well As Israeli Security, American Interests
(Washington, D.C.): On Monday, the Director of Central Intelligence took an unusual, if not unprecedented, step: He issued a public...
Bibi’s Choice: Allow The Palestinians to Acquire a Real — and Threatening — State or Just a ‘State of Mind’
(Washington, D.C.): Tuesday's vote in the UN General Assembly according the Palestinian delegation "super-observer" status puts the handwriting on the...