The National Review reported last week that Gov. Rick Perry is reaching out to veterans of the George W. Bush White House for foreign policy tips, meeting with former under secretary of defense Douglas Feith and former special assistant to the president William Luti.
Feith, along with Paul Wolfowitz, headed More…
Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee attended a ceremony Monday marking the further expansion of Israeli housing in East Jerusalem, using the opportunity to expound on his views regarding what much of the international community considers to be illegal settlements on occupied territories and disregarding the More…
Hussein Ibish told me earlier today that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas needs to yield a “means of easing the siege on Gaza that helps the ordinary people but does not help Hamas politically or in terms of PR” from his meeting today with President Obama. And just now, the More…
Yesterday a bunch of Mideast peace experts in Washington expressed confusion over what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas really wants out of this morning’s scheduled meeting at the White House with President Obama. “Partly everyone is hoping the other side is going to come in and provide the solution,” More…
Speaking of what Israelis will allow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept from the U.S. and the Palestinians with regard to direct negotiations and a potential easing of the Gaza blockade, a New Jersey polling firm, Pechter Middle East Polls, conducted a poll in Hebrew yesterday among 500 Israelis to More…
So tomorrow Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, will visit the White House, under the shadow of last week’s Israeli raid of a flotilla intended to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. What’s on the agenda? See if you can tell from this AFP story:
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Strangely enough, there hasn’t been a great deal of congressional reaction to Israel’s deadly Monday attack on an aid flotilla making its way to Gaza. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has been uncharacteristically quiet on the topic, for instance. And More…
Sure to give agita to the Israeli embassy in Washington: The Center for a New American Security publishes a 100-page multiple-case study of how the international community could midwife a Palestinian state from a security perspective.
It’s a long study, with seven authors, and I’ve barely made a crack More…
“What I worry about,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a gathering yesterday at the Center for Middle East Peace, is that “a failure to act now when there are changed circumstances, including the Arab Peace Initiative, including the very broadly shared fear of Iran’s intentions and actions, will More…
Speaking at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia, was asked at the start of an hour-long presentation what he meant during recent congressional testimony when he waded into the treacherous waters of the Mideast More…
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