The escalating isolated incidents of violence between Israelis and Palestinians during the past few months have focused heavily on Jerusalem, and for good...
There is nothing as exciting in the drama-filled world of domestic American politics as national elections every two years, as we just experienced last...
One of the most troubling aspects of the phenomenon of militant Salafist-takfiri groups like ISIS is the appearance of smaller groups across the Arab world...
I suspect that the Tunisian parliamentary elections Sunday were the most significant domestic and national political development in the modern history of the...
The conviction in a Washington court Wednesday of four former Blackwater Worldwide security guards for their roles in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that left 17...
The frightening rise and expansion of ISIS, which has now triggered yet another round of American-led foreign military attacks in the Levant, continues to...
Analysts in the United States this week are debating the precise meaning of the statements Wednesday by John Allen, the ex-Marine general who now coordinates...
The Palestinian unity technocratic government that held its first meeting in war-torn Gaza Thursday marked several significant if symbolic realities, the most...
The American-led air attacks against ISIS in Iraq and Syria have triggered debates in the United States about how Washington should respond to this and other...
The announcement by the new center-left government in Stockholm last Friday that it intended to recognize a state of Palestine should trouble the Israeli...
One of the most significant common factors that has characterized the Arab world in recent years has been the birth and spread of non-state actors –...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the U.N. General Assembly Monday may go down as a sign of how badly out of touch he is with the rest of...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech to the U.N. General Assembly Friday was expected to launch a process that combines wishes with threats. Both sides...
The upheaval of ideological forces and reconfiguration of geostrategic conditions across the Middle East took a dramatic turn on Sunday and Monday, with in...
There is little in the Middle Eastern political scene these days more shameful than the sheer incompetence and irresponsibility of both leading Palestinian...
In classic American Western movies, a common theme is that of the brave sheriff of a small town whose task is to maintain law and order. The sheriff often...
I dearly wish that ISIS will be contained and then defeated by the many countries and armed groups who say they are committed to achieving that goal.From the...
Never in the modern history of the Middle East have so many countries experienced such intense, often violent, domestic conflict or political paralysis. The...
I had the uncomfortable feeling this week that we may be at the start of a replay of that period in 2001-2003 when the United States launched a “global war on...
Credible press reports and recent hints by Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas indicate that Abbas will soon unveil a diplomatic initiative aimed at...
The apparent airstrike against targets in Tripoli, Libya, last week by the air force of the United Arab Emirates, in conjunction with Egypt, must go down as...
So the United States is bombing targets in Iraq from the air, is active on the ground with hundreds of its special forces, and is exploring targets to bomb in...
There is neither symmetry nor equivalence in the capabilities or the suffering of Palestinians and Israelis who have battled each other nonstop since 1947-48....
The dramatic expansion of the territory controlled by the “Islamic State” in Syria and Iraq in the last few months has generated a historic moment of...
One of the fascinating dimensions of the battle between Israel and Palestine is how Israeli leaders and their American apologists keep changing their...