The media revolutionaries
Last Monday Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz gave an interview to Channel 2's news anchor Yonit Levy during the prime-time news...
Lebanon
Squandering Israel’s Limited Influence
The past month has been a difficult one for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinians (UNRWA)....
Israel’s Only Two Options
Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas is in Europe this week seeking to convince the Spanish and Norwegian governments to support the...
Caution: Storm Approaching
It was seven months ago that Mohammed Bouazizi, a vegetable peddler in Tunisia set himself and the Arab world on...
The Path to the Next Lebanon War
Five years ago this week, Iran's Lebanese proxy opened war with Israel. The war lasted 34 days, during which Hezbollah...
Rival Hegemons in Syria
Last Saturday, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah gave Hezbollah-backed Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati the political equivalent of a public thrashing....
The Invisible Palestinians
Sunday was the first day of Sgt. Gilad Schalit's sixth year in captivity. Schalit was kidnapped on June 26, 2006...
A do or die moment
Every day, major stories come out of the Middle East. And behind each of these stories are major developments that...
The real Egyptian revolution
The coverage of recent events in Egypt is further proof that Western elites cannot see the forest for the trees....
Taking Iran’s missiles in Venezuela seriously
In the last several days it has been reported that Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles in Venezuela. Such...
Ehud Barak’s latest Nakba
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have some explaining to do. On Sunday, Israel was invaded along...
Making sense of Argentina’s frenzied policy
Since the arrival of the Kirchner phenomenon to Argentinean politics in 2003, there has been a sense that history has...
Obama’s altruistic foreign policy
If only in the interest of intellectual hygiene, it would be refreshing if the Obama administration would stop ascribing moral...
Second thoughts, from Goldstone to the ‘Arab Spring’
One might have been forgiven for thinking it was an April Fool's joke. At the very least, the author of...
The Syrian spring
Amidst the many dangers posed by the political conflagration now engulfing the Arab world, we are presented with a unique...
The new Middle East
A new Middle East is upon us and its primary beneficiary couldn't be happier. In a speech Monday in the...