President Saleh of Yemen today again refused to sign the Gulf Cooperation Council agreement that would have him step down…
I'd have liked to entitle this post "stop!", but I know that Bashar al Assad won't. He is fully committed…
President Obama's statement of the obvious yesterday--that the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine should be based on Israel's 1967…
It is hard for me to knock a speech whose most frequently occurring words are "region" "must," "change," "people," and…
I suppose I should resist the temptation to respond to International Crisis Group's latest wrong-headedness. I've got friends at ICG…
In a New York Times op-ed today, Knesset deputy speaker Danny Danon (Likud) offers this advice to Israel's prime minister…
Suddenly, it's all about endgame in AfPak. The death of Osama bin Laden has precipitated a small avalanche of writing…
A friend in the Balkans, whose perspective is not far from mine, writes: Richard Holbrooke often referred to the "Yugo-second,"…
Tanjug, Belgrade's government press agency, asked me this morning to comment on the possibility of dividing Kosovo. The reason for…
I am perfectly willing to believe that today's pro-Palestinian demonstrations on Israel's borders with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza, in which…