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As ever, Rami Khouri tells it like it is - in this instance, reminding us that it was Mr. Bush's Iraq escapade, and its enforcers, that...

Amy Davidson's N ew Yorker pos t spotlights the recent column by the Cheneys (Dick and Elizabeth) calling out Mr. Obama for not manning ...

There are times when all you can do is scratch your head and wonder about the idiocy of some people. Noted Holocaust scholar and expert De...

Peter Beinart distinguishes between apartheid as indeed practiced under Israeli hegemony in the West Bank versus what Israeli Arabs must con...

from today's Politico Morning Education HOBBY LOBBY PRESIDENT PROMOTES BIBLICAL CURRICULUM: Public schools in Mustang, Okla., will o...

There he goes again.  Thomas Friedman  reconstructs global politics  (for the umpteenth time) with simple boxes.  (OK OK, so he calls them ...

The NYT's Roger  Cohen writes  this morning that the BDS movement is simply not to be trusted, even if its goal of ending Israeli occup...

At  Bloomberg , former Bushie Meghan O'Sullivan calls upon Mr. Obama and his officials to head off a new Iraq war by making better use ...

Disturbing report from WashPo about how Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have lined up with Mr. Netanyahu in expressing grave reserv...

Kudos to Thomas Friedman for his piece in today's NY Times (quoted, in full, below).  With all the boo-hooing about how such a deal wou...

With growing signs  (John Kerry has flown to Geneva to take part) that a deal between Iran and the US-led P5+1 is steadily being pieced toge...

My latest a t Your Middle East .  Here's the tease: Elliott Abrams' intention – as is Mr. Netanyahu's – is to do whatever he can...