Waging diplomatic war
If, to paraphrase Carl von Clausewitz, diplomacy is war by other means, then just as armies are called upon to...
Hamas
How Turkey was lost
Once the apotheosis of a pro-Western, dependable Muslim democracy, this week Turkey officially left the Western alliance and became a...
An enfeebled Obama
If Zbigniew Brzezinski had his way, the US would go to war against Israel to defend Iran's nuclear installations. In...
Our irredeemable international system
Our international institutions are irredeemably corrupted. From the United Nations to the International Criminal Court and their affiliate and subordinate...
America’s exceptional ally
There has been much talk in recent months about the prospect of Syria bolting the Iranian axis and becoming magically...
Netanyahu’s perilous statecraft
This week we discovered that we have been deceived. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's principled rejection of US President Barack Obama's...
Fatah’s message
A central pillar of the Obama administration's Middle East policy paradigm was shattered at the Fatah conference in Bethlehem -...
Israel and the ‘realists’
Voices in America calling for downgrading US relations with Israel seem to multiply by the day. One of the new...
The lonely Israeli Left
Israel's leftists are lonely these days. This was the central thrust of an opinion column in Tuesday's New York Times...
Syria’s hour of triumph
In an interview with Britain's Sky News over the weekend, US President Barack Obama was asked whether he is planning...
Numbering the days of dictators
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had reason to feel good about himself this week. Less than a month after he secured...
Supporters of ‘dialogue’ with the Iranian Mullahs help keep the US from ‘meddling’ on behalf of freedom
The Obama administration's failure to stand firmly with the forces of opposition to the mullahs' regime in Tehran is drawing...
Israel’s rare opportunity
Israel finds itself in unfamiliar territory today. The revolutionary atmosphere building in Iran presents Israel with a prospect it has...
Obama’s High Commissioner
Ahead of his current trip to the Middle East, US President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy George Mitchell made what...
What if Israel strikes Iran?
Whatever the outcome of Iran's presidential election tomorrow, negotiations will not soon -- if ever -- put an end to...
Livni’s loyalties
Last week opposition leader and former foreign minister Tzipi Livni published a very odd op-ed in The New York Times....