Don’t Do It, Mr. President: Palestinian State Under Present Circumstances Will Only Make Matters Worse
(Washington, D.C.): If press accounts are to be believed, President Bush is determined to commit his administration to the recognition...
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Washington won’t let Israel win
Wednesday's New York Times led with the banner headline, "New Strategy Set by US and Saudis for Mideast Crisis." The...
‘Mr. Arafat, Renounce This Map’
(Washington, D.C.): In 1987, a President of the United States confronted a great evil and found a simple, yet powerful,...
A Seriously Bad Idea: U.S. Monitors’ and Military Forces Have No Place in Palestine’
New York Times' Tom Friedman Comes Unglued (Washington, D.C.): George Santayana once described a zealot as someone who redoubles his...
What is Wrong with Arafat’s Picture?
Source: Palestinian National Authority (Washington, D.C.): The editorial page of today's Wall Street Journal features a map to which the...
The Saudi Scam II: Krauthammer Warns Against Bid to Spring Arafat While He Continues to Foment Terror
(Washington, D.C.): In a characteristically brilliant essay in today's Washington Post, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer describes the near-term objective of...
The Saudi ‘Deus ex Machiavelli‘
(Washington, D.C.): On occasion, theatrical productions of the ancient Greeks would end with a god being lowered onto the stage...
What to Do About Iran
(Washington, D.C.): The front page of today's New York Times confirms that what has been predictable -- and predicted --...
Richard Perle Speaks Truth to Power — in the U.K. and, Obliquely, Within the U.S. Government
(Washington, D.C.): In an op.ed. article published in today's London Daily Telegraph, Richard Perle says the unsayable about the kow-towing...
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...
Don’t Legitimate Terrorist Regimes in the Name of Fighting the War on Terrorism
(Washington, D.C.): President Bush is being encouraged by his State Department and some allies to make an extraordinary mistake: In...
Who is the Enemy and How They Must Be Fought
(Washington, D.C.): Press accounts detail how the Bush Administration and the Congress are reacting to the "acts of war" unleashed...
On the War We Are Now In
(Washington, D.C.): The explosions that destroyed the World Trade Center, wreaked havoc on the Pentagon and shattered American illusions of...
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...