Why Romney Won’t Strike Iran
The three factors that explain why a Republican president is no more likely to stage a pre-emptive attack
Lee Smith
The Israeli-American Divide
Israel fears a crisis in Egypt, but the U.S. remains calm. How did these allies come to see things so differently?
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Palestine’s Biggest Obstacle
Palestinians in the diaspora are thriving, so what exactly is preventing success in the West Bank and Gaza?
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Cause for Celebration in Syria
The fall of Assad’s pro-Iranian regime is a net gain for the US, even if what replaces it isn’t a reliable ally
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What Condi Says About Romney
Floating Rice’s name as a possible vice president shows the Romney campaign’s lack of foreign-policy smarts
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Why the US Could Bomb Iran
The White House’s line—that a strike can only delay the program—is an attempt to downplay our military capability
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What’s Next for Egypt?
The Muslim Brotherhood, which won the presidency Saturday, sees itself as a corrective to modern Egyptian life
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Leaking Cyberwar Secrets
The White House wants credit for successes but blames Israel for failures, a New York Times exposé shows
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Hezbollah’s Newest Threat
Lebanon’s Party of God is feeling heat from certain Shiites, who aren’t eager to serve as human shields again
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The Israel Lobby’s GOP Past
The influence of the late Benzion Netanyahu over his son Benjamin, the prime minister of Israel, is perhaps the most over-discussed Oedipal theme in the psycho-history of international affairs. B...
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Who Leaked Israeli Iran Plan?
Is the United States leaking information in order to discourage an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities? That’s what some experts are saying in the wake of a...
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Obama’s About-Face on Syria
In August, the president called for Bashar al-Assad to step down. But the U.S. hasn’t sent arms to the opposition.
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Obama the Bluffer
The president of the United States says he doesn...
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The Road From Damascus
When Khaled Meshaal slipped quietly out of Damascus in January, Hamas ended a decade-long stay in the Syrian cap...
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Interference
Should the United States act to protect Syrian civilians from their murderous regime? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
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In the fall of 2007 Israel reportedly hacked into Syria’s air defense systems and disabled them, as a prelude to bombing a nuclear facility in the Syrian desert. This vaunted cyber exploit,...
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Body Politics
Michelle Goldberg writes: Of all the arguments that have ever been made about why the Iranian regime is uniquely uninterested in its own survival, the one my colleague L...
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Rationale
Is Iran rational? That’s the key question policy-makers and experts have been asking for at least the last decade as Iran has gotten closer to bringing its nuclear-weapons program on line....
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Minority Interest
Being Christian in the Middle East has never been easy, but the wave of uprisings that has swept the region over the past year has made the situation for the region’s Christian minority alm...
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Useful Fiction
Newt Gingrich says the Palestinians are an “invented people.” They are, like many others in the Middle East.