Posts Tagged: middle east
How Israel Could Revolutionize the Global Energy Sector
Libyan oil accounts for less than 2 percent of world oil production, yet the revolt against Muammar Qaddafi has managed to shoot up the price...
Libya Needs Action Now
Momentum in Libya's civil war has recently shifted to Moammar Gadhafi, although the final outcome remains uncertain. Nonetheless, President Obama's indecisiveness has unquestionably limited American...
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...
Obama and the Myth of the First Black President
If Toni Morrison, the Nobel-prize winning African-American novelist, can refer to Bill Clinton, a white man, as America's first black president, then surely the process...
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...
Obama, Who Hedged and Didn’t Lead, is the Big Loser on Egypt
I'm sitting and watching President Obama's speech on the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. He is eloquent as usual, giving compelling visuals of...
The Difficult History of Religion and Freedom
Fears are mounting over the growing crisis in the Middle East. Even as the current pharaoh of Mitzrayim (the Biblical name for Egypt) has now bowed...
Beirut Calling
Lebanon, not Egypt, may determine the fate of democracy in the Middle East. Despite the media's recent focus on Egypt, events in Lebanon may well tell...
