A sorry summit
Meeting with African leaders, Biden avoids the pivotal issues
Roger Cohen
UAE-Israel Treaty Is Far Larger Step Towards Peace Than Critics Allege
No deal is perfect, but any improvement should not be downplayed when it makes the volatile Middle East more peaceful and win-win.
Op-eds
The Iran Deal Is Strategically and Morally Absurd
It was surely Barack Obama’s profound aversion to the use of American military power that so enfeebled his nuclear diplomacy and made his atomic accord with Iran the worst arms-control agre...
Op-eds
Obama’s Syria Policy Striptease
America’s settled policy of standing by while half a million Syrians have been killed, millions have become refugees, and large swaths of their country have been re...
Op-eds
About That Special Relationship
Some are fretting about whether the special relationship that has bound the United States and the United Kingdom since World War II has been damaged by the House of Common’s vote against Br...
Op-eds
History of the World, Winged Camels, and an Israel-Palestine Peace
Tel Aviv, Israel — Israel’s military is unusual in many ways, but start with this: A patch on Captain Omri Levy’s sleeve alludes to a Mel Brooks j...
Op-eds
Radioactive Regime
The list is long of Occidentals who’ve fallen for Persia. This isn’t surprising. Compared with Arab lands save Egypt, Iran has a longer history—Hegel described the Persians as &...
Op-eds
Who’s Blowing Up Iran?
Another week, another explosion at or near an Iranian military installation (or is it a nuclear research...
Op-eds
The New, Neoconservative, New York Times
At first I thought it was an anomaly, a personal thing. One New York Times columnist has an epiphany. But now there are two of them, two very liberal Tim...
Op-eds
Open? J-Street Turns into Cul-de-Sac
Is J-Street"so open-minded about what constitutes support for Israel that its brains have fallen out"? These are the words of Rep Gary Ackerman. Mr Ackerman was one of a handful of US Me...
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The Obsessive-Compulsive Israeli Settlement Talks
Berlin - Israel's ten-month moratorium on new settlement construction in the disputed West Bank territories...
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Free Roxana Saberi!
In September 1988, the Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, a novel containing what some saw as an irreverent depiction of the prophet Mohammed. In February 198...