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How to Deal with Obama Middle East Policy
Mon, September 16, 2013 | RubinReports | By Barry Rubin To see an alternative policy for the Middle East — presented four years ago and still timely — see: Meria Journal, June 2009. It is likely that...
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What Will Happen Now with U.S. Middle East Policy?
RubinReports | By Barry Rubin Turkish Reader: Haven’t you understood yet that the US does not care about whether a Muslim country is ruled by Sharia [dictatorship] or by secular [democracy] law as...
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Is Iran a Lunatic State or a Rational Actor? Neither: It is a Rational Aggressor
RubinReports | By Barry Rubin The United States now estimates it will take one year for Iran to get nuclear weapons; Israel says some months. Is Iran a Lunatic State or a Rational Actor? It is...
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Explaining Everything in Washington in 600 Words
RubinReports | By Barry Rubin “I had always thought wishful thinking a motive frequently underrated in political analysis and prediction.” — WALTER LAQUEUR In Egypt, moderate Arabs don’t understand...
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Israel’s Declining Security?
By Crethi Plethi Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu makes a statement about Iran at Ben Gurion Airport, November 8, 2013. (Photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO / Flash90) Middle East analyst Jonathan...
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The Dead’s Envy for the Living
MEForum | by David P. Goldman First published in PJMedia. (source: israeltoday.co.il) Many commentators, most eloquently Bret Stephens at the Wall Street Journal, draw a parallel between the...
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How U.S. Policy Is Betraying Not Only Israel, but also Sunni Arabs
RubinReports | By Barry Rubin In 1948, there were hopes that the Arab-Israeli conflict would be resolved in the long-run. But it wasn’t. In 1967, there was hope that the magnitude of Israeli victory...
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Why Modern Society Is No Longer Better than Traditional Society
Thursday, December 12, 2013 | RubinReports | By Barry Rubin Times have changed, And we’ve often rewound the clock, Since the Puritans got a shock, When they landed on Plymouth Rock. If today, Any...
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Reading the Obama Interview
Monday, March 3, 2014 | MEForum | by Alexander H. Joffe First published in The Times of Israel. President Barack Obama participates in an interview with Jeff Goldberg in the Oval Office, Feb. 27,...
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More sitcom than CENTCOM
Monday, March 10, 2014 | MEForum | by David P. Goldman First published in Asia Times Online. American foreign policy is more sitcom than CENTCOM. That in a way is the good news. Our failures are comic...
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Obama’s ‘Crusades’ Idiocy
by Douglas Murray Originally published by the Gatestone Institute under the title “Obama Makes Up Facts — Again.” Republished with permission. President Barack Obama, speaking at the National Prayer...
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Obama’s “Declaration of War” against Israel
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 | by Bassam Tawil Originally published by the Gatestone Institute under the title “Obama Declares War on Israel.” Republished with permission. Bassam Tawil writes that...
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Netanyahu Emulates Churchill in Trying to Influence US Policy to Protect His...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 | by Alan M. Dershowitz Originally published by the Gatestone Institute. Republished with permission. Sir Winston Churchill, address to the Congress of the United States,...
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Barack Obama Addresses General Assembly’s Seventieth Session
28 September 2015 | un.org THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary september 28, 2015 REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OBAMA TO THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY United Nations Headquarters New York, New...
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US Middle East Policy and The Old Potomac Two Step
Monday, September 9, 2015 | by Gregg Roman Originally published under the title “The Old Potomac Two Step” by the Times of Israel. Republished with permission from the author. The President: You’ll...
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Shavou’ot (Pentecost) vs Ramadan
Sunday, June 12th, 2016 | By Rachel Ehrenfeld Originally published by American Center for Democracy. Republished with permission. Omar Saddiqui Mateen, who shot and killed at least 50 people at an...
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President Obama Defends His Foreign Policy in Final Speech to the UN General...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 | by CrethiPlethi Staff THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary September 20, 2016 ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT OBAMA TO THE 71ST SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL...
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Obama is Not Done with Israel, yet
Tuesday, December 27th, 2016 | By Rachel Ehrenfeld Originally published by American Center for Democracy. Republished with permission. A slightly different version of this article was printed @ the...
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How One Arab Swallow Does Not Make a Spring
Wednesday, August 10, 2017 | By Harald van Es One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. — Aristotle (384...
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