Posts Tagged: middle east
Is Turkish-Israeli Reconciliation Imminent?
The fact that Israeli and Turkish officials have begun to renew dialogue at a time of significant uncertainty and turmoil in the broader Middle East...
Middle East Studies in Upheaval
The troubled academic study of the Middle East and Islam by Americans is changing in fundamental ways. I offer some thoughts based on 42 years...
Is It Too Late for Assad
One month after the uprisings began in Syria, I wrote that President Basher al-Assad had a choice: "Continue to convey an image of an inept...
Israel: Public Relations & The Flotilla
So the "flotilla" Part 2 is coming, and the latest has an AP story reporting that "any foreign journalist caught on board a Gaza-bound flotilla...
The Hamas – Oops, Gaza – Flotilla
We're on the verge of another "flotilla" to Gaza. Estimates of the number of ships and participants vary from day to day, tending downward, but...
The Emptying of Yemen
For the first time in its exceedingly long history, Yemen now threatens the outside world. It does so in two principal ways. First, even before the...
The Battle for America’s Jews: Bibi vs. Obama
Currently there does not seem to be any indication that Netanyahu and Obama will cross swords during the upcoming Middle East policy fiesta in Washington...
Bernard Henri Levy and Israel (part 2)
In my first blog post, you learnt about Bernard Henri Levy's lifelong pro-Israel comitment. As the Jewish State turns 63 and faces new major challenges,...
The President’s Catastrophic Mideast Policy
At every conceivable level, the Obama administration's Middle East policies are spiraling into a disastrous free-fall. Even Obama's friend, PA president Mahmoud Abbas, has explicitly accused...
Eric Cantor’s Showdown with President Obama
The 'Responsibility to protect' is currently being debated in American policy circles. Do wealthy nations have an obligation to intervene when innocents are being slaughtered...
Get Tough with Hamas Now
These are indeed difficult times requiring painful decisions over issues such as how to placate the Obama administration in order to forestall a breakdown in...
The Power That Is in Your Hands
This past week I listened to two very prominent Israeli politicians giving intimate off the record briefings to influential Jewish audiences in New York. Hearing firsthand...
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...
