Netanyahu channels Jefferson

15 years ago

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke last night at AIPAC. The speech was notable for three things: No vision of what…

Driving the Saudis crazy

15 years ago

The Saudi authorities are cracking down on the spreading women's protest, which intends to flood the streets June 17 with…

Gaddafi won’t stop or go

15 years ago

While Bashar al Assad won't stop the repression in Syria and Ali Abdullah Saleh won't leave office in Yemen, Muammar…

Saleh won’t go

15 years ago

President Saleh of Yemen today again refused to sign the Gulf Cooperation Council agreement that would have him step down…

Bashar won’t stop

15 years ago

I'd have liked to entitle this post "stop!", but I know that Bashar al Assad won't. He is fully committed…

The two face solution

15 years ago

President Obama's statement of the obvious yesterday--that the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine should be based on Israel's 1967…

A right-minded but (mostly) forgettable speech

15 years ago

It is hard for me to knock a speech whose most frequently occurring words are "region" "must," "change," "people," and…

More in sadness than anger

15 years ago

I suppose I should resist the temptation to respond to International Crisis Group's latest wrong-headedness. I've got friends at ICG…

Making the land whole means war

15 years ago

In a New York Times op-ed today, Knesset deputy speaker Danny Danon (Likud) offers this advice to Israel's prime minister…

Endgame

15 years ago

Suddenly, it's all about endgame in AfPak.  The death of Osama bin Laden has precipitated a small avalanche of writing…