Caution: Storm Approaching
It was seven months ago that Mohammed Bouazizi, a vegetable peddler in Tunisia set himself and the Arab world on...
Syria
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....
Unmasking the “International Community”
For many years, the Left in Israel and throughout the world has upheld the so-called "international community" as the arbiter...
An Obama foreign policy
Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy. In...
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....
Obama’s abandonment of America
I was out sick yesterday so I was unable to write today's column for the Jerusalem Post. I did manage...
Obama’s Muslim Outreach 2.0: Doing Business with the Muslim Brotherhood
President Obama's latest paean to what he calls "the Muslim world," delivered at the State Department today, was an exercise...
Muslim Outreach 2.0
On Thursday, President Obama will "reach out" yet again to what he insists on calling "the Muslim world." Think of...
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...
Obama’s newest ambush
It is hard to believe, but it appears that in the wake of the Palestinian unity deal that brings Hamas,...
Netanyahu’s time to choose
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's response to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority's peace deal with Hamas would be funny if it weren't...
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...
Enabling the Muslim Brotherhood in America
The Muslim Brotherhood's mask is slipping in Egypt. Small "d" democrats there and elsewhere are alarmed by top Brotherhood officials...