Can Israel Win Against Hamas? To the extent that other players in the region will continue funding Hamas, this conflict will continue
WASHINGTON – I do believe that Israel’s invasion of Gaza in order to destroy the tunnels that Hamas built...
Category: Politics
A United Front To Punish Russia For The Destruction Of The Malaysia Airlines Plane? Do not count on it. Europe badly needs Russian gas, now and for years to come
WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State John Kerry, now in Ukraine, finally said publicly that America has conclusive evidence...
With No Debate Obama Agreed To Extend Iran Nuclear Talks In Vienna Iranian President Hassan Rouhani wins this round. By keeping the talks going, he gains a bit more respectability
WASHINGTON – In this moment of global turmoil, marked by the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines aircraft by...
Timid Obama Unwilling To Blame Russia For The Shooting Down Of Malaysia Airlines 777 Calling for an international investigation is meaningless, as the tragedy occurred in a war zone
WASHINGTON – President Obama’s speech about the shooting down of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 over Eastern Ukraine is...
Putin Morally Responsible For The Downing Of A Malaysia Airlines Aircraft Over Eastern Ukraine No matter who pulled the trigger, this conflict in Eastern Ukraine exists only because Moscow inspired it and funded it
WASHINGTON – Make no mistake, whoever shot down the Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Eastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir...
The Conflict Between Israel And The Palestinians Will Go On And On Neither side can prevail militarily. Both camps have factions that consider the other side a mortal enemy
WASHINGTON – Whatever the outcome of the current Israeli military operation aimed at destroying or at least downgrading Hamas’...
Mortimer Zuckerman in the WSJ: Too Much Part-Time Work Reflects a Weak US Economy Yes, the unemployment rate is going down; but most of the jobs created are part-time, while Americans who seek full time employment cannot find it
WASHINGTON – The well established conventional wisdom in US politics is that the mid-term elections, (coming up in November), are...
With An Unresolved Election, Things Are Getting Worse In Afghanistan Once again, the Obama administration is in a reactive mode. Nobody saw this crisis coming
WASHINGTON – The Obama “Afghanistan exit strategy” was based on two major assumptions. Number 1: The US and its NATO allies...
Politics Is About Clever Manipulation We accept that candidates calibrate political messages according to what people want to hear, not according to what they believe
WASHINGTON – Presumptive 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is in the news. Various articles report on her artful maneuvers...
The Crisis Of the Arab World Will Go On And On Not much that we can do about it. Still, we need to protect ourselves against terrorism, its most dangerous byproduct
WASHINGTON – With sympathy but a great deal of pessimism The Economist examines the state of perennial backwardness of...