Israel’s Predicament at 60

Two religiously-identified new states emerged from the shards of the British empire in the aftermath of World War II. Israel, of course, was one; the other was Pakistan. They make an interesting, if little-compared pair....

We Cease, They Fire: Anatomy of a Ceasefire Disaster

"Hamas could learn both positive and negative lessons from the last round of escalation. On the positive side, it succeeded in consistently and systematically launching rockets at Israel, extending the rockets' range to Ashkelon,...

Carter’s Great Gaffe: Hamas Will Recognize Israel?

In what will assuredly be seen as one of the greater gaffes of his career, former president Jimmy Carter dramatically reassured a packed crowd of diplomats and reporters this week that Hamas would now...

Incisive News Diary

Posting: May 5, 2008 "Who Knows?" Who knows how this latest potential scandal with Olmert will play out... In spite of the fact that police are arguing that the investigation and its legal implications takes precedence over...

WILL RABBI HIER, DEAN OF THE SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER, HELP GEORGE W. BUSH, THE...

On Thursday, President Bush conducted a seminal summit in the White House with PLO leader Machmud Abbas, AKA Abu Mazen, the protégé of the late Yassir Arafat, the founder of the PLO, a man...

What’s Really behind the Screaming Headlines about the Arrest of an Octogenarian Spy for...

American engineer Ben-Ami Kadish was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly providing to an Israeli "handler" classified data on nuclear weapons, F-15 fighter jets, and the Patriot missile air defense system. A few important points of...

On the eve of the Pa. primary,The Philadelphia Bulletin interviews Obama’s Middle East Advisors

During the week before the Pennsylvania primary, I met with Sen. Barack Obama's middle east advisers in Washington, Howard Guttman and former Californian Congressman Mel Levine, along with another Obama Middle East aide who...

Daniel Kurtzer, Candidate for Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Obama: His Record on Israel...

1. Spending a career pushing US policy makers to pressure Israel into accepting Arafat and the PLO as a "moderate" peace partner. http://ibn.worldmedianetworks.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1176&q=1 http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/obamas_new_foreign_policy_advi.html 2. Insensitivity to official Palestinian Authority anti-semitism http://ibn.worldmedianetworks.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1846&q=1 http://ibn.worldmedianetworks.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1898&q=1 3. Nurturing an Islamic Sharia-based constitution for...

A Diary of Insight in Middle East Reporting

Posting: April 17, 2008 "Carter's Destruction" Today is the day that Jimmy Carter -in defiance of requests from several quarters that he not do so-is going to be meeting with officials from Hamas. To achieve peace,...

20 Middle East Policy Questions to Ask Candidates Running for Public of Office in...

I have spent the past week covering Middle East policy issues during the presidential primaries in Pennsylvania, in my capacity as the Middle East correspondent for the Philadelphia Bulletin. I find that people hesitate about...