Posts Tagged: egypt
Iranian Winter Could Chill the Arab Spring
Since the "Arab Spring" began four months ago in Tunisia, U.S. media have focused constantly and generally optimistically on the turmoil in the Middle East....
Syria Seeks Solutions on the Street
Popular protests and attempted regime change is evidenced in countries from Tunisia to Libya, Syria to Yemen, rolling through the region known as the Middle...
Arab Spring – an Illusion
We are currently witnessing contradictory and confused responses by the Obama administration to the upheavals sweeping the Arab world. They highlight the failure of previous...
Where Do We Start and When Do We Stop?
I listened intently this week to the speech given by President Barack Obama explicitly intended to explain to the American public why the U.S. decided...
The Hamas Gamble
For the aspiring Muslim mass-murderer, there's no better place to carry out his "marvelous act of glorious martyrdom" (the description from the official television channel...
New Regimes Might Mean Disaster for the U.S. and Israel
To some, the "populist" protests in Egypt, Libya and many other Arab nations and the toppling of dictators is a sign of Muslims expressing their...
Palin Doctrine Emerges as Arab League Echoes Her Demarche on Libya
The call by the Arab League for Western military intervention in an Arab state — in this case asking that a UN "no-fly zone" be...
While the White House Slept
As Libya's bloody conflict rages on, important lessons for U.S. foreign policy are emerging from the past month's Middle East turmoil. Starting with Tunisia, the...
Can Another Arab-Israeli Conflict Be Avoided?
Probably the most shocking development following the Egyptian turmoil was the speed with which various American liberals had pronounced their indifference to the future of...
Final Thoughts on What Egypt Will Mean for the US, Israel
Rebel forces have taken over a number of cities in Libya as Muammar Gaddafi declares "my people love me." Whatever the outcome of these...
Jews in the Danger Zone
Turmoil in the Middle East has placed several "remnant" Jewish communities, literally and figuratively in the direct line of fire of unstable political and military...
How to Make Egypt Safe for Democracy
Hosni Mubarak's resignation as president of Egypt, after thirty years of authoritarian rule, is a major seismic event in the unstable Middle East. Although not...
Not Worrying About Egypt
Sitting in Jerusalem, it only makes sense that over the past month I have been keeping one eye focused due south towards Egypt, watching an...
Avoiding Euphoria over Obama
A strange euphoria seems to have blinded some Israelis and American Jews concerning the context of President Barack Obama's veto of a UN resolution. In the...
