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…

The Yugo-second is over

15 years ago

A friend in the Balkans, whose perspective is not far from mine, writes: Richard Holbrooke often referred to the "Yugo-second,"…

Why no partition of Kosovo?

15 years ago

Tanjug, Belgrade's government press agency, asked me this morning to comment on the possibility of dividing Kosovo.  The reason for…

The Palestine question needs answers

15 years ago

I am perfectly willing to believe that today's pro-Palestinian demonstrations on Israel's borders with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza, in which…