Israel, Gaza and Iran: “The Rockets’ Red Glare, the Bombs Bursting in Air”
via Lobe Log The Gaza Strip, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt and the State of Israel, is 25 miles long. At its narrowest point it is less than 4 miles wide, and at its maximum width, it’s 7.5...
View ArticleFor a Republican SecState
via Lobe Log I’m pleased that President Obama is reportedly enlarging his list of possible candidates for senior national-security posts to Republicans, notably former Sen. Chuck Hagel, as reported by...
View ArticleAIPAC Directs Congressional Punishment of Palestinians After UN Vote
via Lobe Log The US government has swept into action in the aftermath of the Palestinians’ overwhelming victory at the United Nations on Thursday. No less than three amendments were brought in the...
View ArticleIn Search of a Strategy for the Middle East
via Lobe Log By James Russell As suggested most recently by Stephen Walt, a regrettable and recurring theme of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy in the Gulf and the Middle East over the last...
View ArticleThe Barack Obama Story (Updated)
How a Community Organizer and Constitutional Law Professor Became a Robot President By Tom Engelhardt via Tom Dispatch President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington,...
View ArticleNetanyahu also established March as a key month for Iran’s nuclear program
via Lobe Log According to Micah Zenko, the International Atomic Energy Association’s (IAEA) and Hillary Clinton’s recent endorsement of a March deadline for Iran nuclear talks is a pressure tactic...
View ArticleIran Shows Signs of Resilience Ahead of Potential Bilateral Talks
via Lobe Log By Richard Javad Heydarian A key foreign policy consequence of President Barak Obama’s reelection is the growing possibility of face-to-face talks between the United States. and Iran. Both...
View ArticleIran Nuclear Accord “Unlikely” Without Easing Sanctions
via IPS News Iran is unlikely to agree to curb its nuclear programme unless the U.S. and its Western allies are prepared to ease tough economic sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic over the...
View ArticleGary Sick on Iran’s Foreign Policy
via Lobe Log Gary Sick, who served as an Iran specialist on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan, speaks to Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose about an article...
View ArticleObama’s Subtle Message To Israel: You’re Not My Top Priority Anymore
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick All was not as it seemed during President Barack Obama’s appearances in Jerusalem and Ramallah, where he addressed audiences of Israelis and Palestinians. On the...
View ArticleUS Arms Sale Sends Mixed Messages to Israel
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel may have insisted that the latest sale of US arms to Israel sent a strong message to Iran, but the actual message was a bit more...
View ArticleKerry in the Mideast: Tilting at Windmills
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick Who is John Kerry trying to fool? His repeated trips to the Middle East have produced no change in the status quo and prevented neither the resignation of the US’...
View ArticleLittle Support in Washington for Kerry’s Mideast Efforts
by Mitchell Plitnick While Secretary of State John Kerry was in Israel declaring his aim to “exhaust all the possibilities of peace” to try to stop wasting the Obama Administration’s time and energy on...
View ArticleIranian Elections: Netanyahu, Neoconservatives Are the Big Losers
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick Outside of Iran, there is no doubt that the biggest losers in Iran’s election this past weekend were the Likud government in Israel and its supporters, especially...
View ArticleObama Punts Syria Question To Congress
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick US President Barack Obama’s decision to use force in response to Syria’s use of chemical weapons but to seek Congressional approval before doing so was very surprising....
View ArticleOn Iraq, Petraeus Still Marketing a Myth
via LobeLog by Wayne White In his Oct. 29 Foreign Policy article, “How We Won in Iraq”, General David Petraeus characterizes the 2003 US invasion and departure of US troops in 2011 as an American...
View ArticleWhy Israeli-Palestinian Talks Will Fail, Again
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick There is an odd sort of atmosphere today around the soon-to-fail Israel-Palestine talks. A dramatic gesture by the United States, presenting its own security plans to...
View ArticleYear of 2013 Brings No Change to US Policy On Israel And Palestinians
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick When it comes to the tedious dance between the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the more things change, the more they stay the same. As 2013 draws...
View ArticleKerry Lands In The Israel-Palestine Blame Game
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick US Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Israel on Jan. 2, starting 2014 with an attempt to save what is increasingly looking like a doomed round of negotiations...
View ArticleRussia: Looking at History as a Continuation of Politics
by Igor Torbakov The leading Bolshevik historian Mikhail Pokrovsky famously defined history as “politics projected into the past.” Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, is taking that concept, and...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....