Posts tagged Middle East

When Samuel Huntington wrote his 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, many in the Western political arena considered it …

The long-awaited results of the Bulgarian investigation into the Burgas terrorist bombing last July 18th has placed enormous pressure on the European Union to proscribe …

With all the talk of revolutions, the Middle East continues to slip backwards. We see mobs burning buildings, uprisings, coups, standoffs, civil wars, orgies of …

Nicholas Kristof, in his column “Seeking Balance in the Middle East” suggests that Congressional opposition to the forthcoming UN vote on a Palestinian state is …

In November 2003 (and on many occasions since then), Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar set out the reality under which Israel continues to live: “We do …

It is now clear why Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority have refused negotiations with Israel for more than a year, even after Israel agreed …

Nowhere is power (or the lack thereof) more clearly understood than in Middle Eastern culture. Coming from a Western perspective, we continually fail to recognize …

The U.S. debt will top $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015, according to a Treasury Department report to …

In 1945, after the liberation of France, it would have been unthinkable for the Allies to have stopped at the French-German border (believing they could …

According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, National Security Advisor General Jim Jones was quoted in a classified foreign ministry cable as having told a European …