The One True Way to Peace in the Middle East
by Regarding the recent flap between the U.S. and Israel over housing settlements in the latter country, British political writer Melanie Phillips understands far better the …
Category: Middle East
Abdul-Latif Moussa, Gaza’s David Koresh?
Abdul-Latif Moussa leads an Islamic terrorist group called Jund Ansar Allah that as of now is literally fighting for its survival in the Gaza Strip. …
Islam / Middle East / Politics
Obama Addresses the Muslim World
Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world was one worth making. He made some important points and made them more firmly than I had hoped …
Islam / Israel / Middle East / World
Will Muslims Respond to Barack Obama’s Overtures?
Alaa Al Aswany says that Muslims from the Middle East will not respond to Barack Obama’s friendly overtures until they see him taking sides with …
Africa / Crime / Middle East / Military
War Crimes in Gaza, Mogadishu
Jeffery Goldberg wonders if American troops committed war crimes in Somalia while fighting rebels in Mogadishu. The question seems ridiculous at first. What war crimes …
Energy / France / Middle East
Nuclear Power, Waste, and Theft
William Tucker, author of the forthcoming book "Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Can Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Long Energy Odyssey", says that …
Repression in Yemen
From the NY Times and Jane Novak’s Armies of Liberation blog comes the story of Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani, a journalist who is facing a potential …
Iran / Middle East / Terrorism
The Politics of Appeasement
Politics is exactly what Barack Obama and others on the left are playing at when they protest, overmuch, that President Bush attacked the presumptive Democratic …
Ah, Intellectuals
David Frum recently wrote about what he thinks is a disturbing trend among conservatives, dismissing too intellectual positions without properly understanding them while advancing popular, …
A Palestinian State?
The NY Times has a transcript of the speech read by President Bush at Annapolis yesterday here. The key bits: The Palestinian people are blessed …