Own goal

13 years ago

Serbian President Boris Tadic is apparently prepared to skip a summit of Central and Southeastern European leaders in Warsaw Friday…

Veh is mir!

13 years ago

The issue is not the 1967 border--President Obama did not ask the Israelis to accept it, but to use it…

Netanyahu channels Jefferson

13 years ago

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke last night at AIPAC. The speech was notable for three things: No vision of what…

Driving the Saudis crazy

13 years ago

The Saudi authorities are cracking down on the spreading women's protest, which intends to flood the streets June 17 with…

Gaddafi won’t stop or go

13 years ago

While Bashar al Assad won't stop the repression in Syria and Ali Abdullah Saleh won't leave office in Yemen, Muammar…

Saleh won’t go

13 years ago

President Saleh of Yemen today again refused to sign the Gulf Cooperation Council agreement that would have him step down…

Bashar won’t stop

13 years ago

I'd have liked to entitle this post "stop!", but I know that Bashar al Assad won't. He is fully committed…

The two face solution

13 years ago

President Obama's statement of the obvious yesterday--that the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine should be based on Israel's 1967…

A right-minded but (mostly) forgettable speech

13 years ago

It is hard for me to knock a speech whose most frequently occurring words are "region" "must," "change," "people," and…

More in sadness than anger

13 years ago

I suppose I should resist the temptation to respond to International Crisis Group's latest wrong-headedness. I've got friends at ICG…