Syndicated columnist Richard Cohen declared in the Washington Post on Tuesday that an-eye-for-an-eye would be a hopelessly wimpy policy for the Israeli government. "Anyone who knows anything about the Middle East knows that proportionality is madness," he wrote. "For...
Living out in southern Utah, in the red-rock country, I don't hear the news much, nor do I much care that I'm missing it. No radio, no television. Limited access to the Web via a contentedly glacial dial-up line. Lately something about Israel and Hezbollah and the...
This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, who most recently made his name under the banner of Campus Watch, leading McCarthyite witch-hunts against American professors who have the impertinence...
Even as the war in southern Lebanon heats up and a cease-fire looks increasingly distant, thoughts turn to what will happen in the aftermath. Since the 1960s, Lebanon’s many religious groups have had strained relations, but a unified Lebanon could be one of the...
The United States has been reduced to the role of passive bystander as a new stage of sectarian civil war has begun in Iraq, marked by military units with heavy weaponry carrying out mass killings. Last week's bloody massacre in Mahmoudiya illustrates both the new...
Ambulances appear to be have become a target of the Israeli military in its quest to oust Hezbollah from southern Lebanon. The Lebanese Red Crescent Society has reported five "security incidents" since the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah earlier this...
BEIRUT - Among hundreds of thousands of refugees scattered across city parks, schools, and abandoned buildings in Beirut, new and chilling words have been doing the rounds. A senior Israeli air force official announced on Israeli army radio that "Army chief of...
Mocked just months ago as a fool and a lightweight compared to his legendarily shrewd father, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears increasingly to have become the "go-to guy" in resolving the two-week-old war between Hezbollah and Israel. While...
Poor Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. "Liberated" Iraq's chief government official came to Washington hoping to shore up the precarious position of his regime as it teeters on the brink of civil war, and all he got was this: "Mr. Maliki's refusal to...
On July 13, John Bolton – our unconfirmed ambassador to the United Nations – vetoed a proposed Security Council resolution that would have demanded Israel halt its military offensive into the Gaza Strip. The resolution, "Condemning military assault...
