Wheels off the bus in Obama Middle East policy: Fayyad quits
Salam Fayyad has resigned as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. Losing practically the only Palestinian leader committed to building civil society and limiting corruption is a blow for those...
View ArticleMore bad news from the Middle East
It has been apparent for some time that when Secretary of State John Kerry (in his current spot or while in the Senate) gets pumped up about something (e.g. Bashar al-Assad is a reformer, get Turkey...
View ArticleMaybe Palestinians don’t want two states
Bizarrely, failure has not dulled Secretary of State John Kerry’s insistence that peace between the Palestinians and Israelis is within sight. Recently, Palestinian leaders flat-out rejected Kerry’s...
View ArticleObama is setting up Israel to take the fall
In advance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the United States, President Obama gave an interview in which he viciously attacked Israel, suggesting that Israel was the...
View ArticleAbbas chooses Hamas, not peace with Israel
Each day brings a new parade of horribles for President Obama’s foreign policy. Iran celebrates the phony election Bashar al-Assad will hold, his stamp of self-approval and his defiance in remaining...
View ArticleBecause of this pattern of savagery . . .
The Post reports: Two Palestinians armed with knives, axes and a gun stormed a synagogue in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood on Tuesday, killing three Americans — including a prominent rabbi — and a...
View ArticleThe administration’s Orwellian language
It is a truism that if one does not think straight, one’s words will be confused and one’s actions are likely to reflect that confusion. This is nowhere more evident than in the Obama administration,...
View ArticleDennis Ross: Critics were right about Obama, Iran and Israel
Dennis Ross, former senior adviser to President Obama, arguably should have come out strongly against the Iran deal — and advised Hillary Clinton (he served in her husband’s administration) that the...
View ArticleWhy is the PLO still here?
Not only are U.S.-Israeli relations frayed after seven years of President Obama, but also U.S.-Palestinian relations and Israeli-Palestinian relations remain rotten. It is no wonder things are so...
View ArticleThe ‘peace process’ did not fail — the Palestinian Authority did
In a scholarly article for the Institute of National Security Studies journal Strategic Assessment, Kobi Michael and Yoel Guzansky write: After 20 years of generous support for the PA (the highest per...
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