There can be no hiding it now. Barack Obama is an enemy of IsraelThere can't be any defense of a policy that exposes Israel by rolling back half a century of hard-won gains by that nation. A similar stance against the United States would see them returning the American southwest to Mexico in the name of "peace ( Read more... )

I don't think it's a coincidence that unrest is flaring up where elements of radical groups such as the PLO exist ( Read more... )

Why does Carter think he has any influence whatsoever? It takes a pretty bad president to be considered "worst" so soon after Nixon, but he managed to do it.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre- ( Read more... )

Artificial states didn't work in the Balkans and they won't work in the Middle East. The only chance that Iraq has to survive is to allow for autonomous regions ruled by a federal government responsible for national defense, inter-regional economics and judicial disputes. The model has worked elsewhere, what makes people think it won't work in ( Read more... )

The democracy movement in the Middle East begins to unravel:
BEIRUT (AP) - Hezbollah and Amal Cabinet ministers resigned from the Lebanese government on Saturday, Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV Station said ( Read more... )

Condi Rice enters the arena of high-stakes diplomacy.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought to buttress Lebanon's fragile democratic government Monday after nearly two weeks of warfare, making this stricken capital a surprise first stop on a high-stakes Mideast diplomatic mission.
Rice's mission has drawn the usual range ( Read more... )

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