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- The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that the Houthis are…
- When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and…
- It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.
- President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance…
- From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement,…
- There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
- Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972…
- Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists…
- On June 19, 1981, a vigorously healthy Justice Potter Stewart resigned from the Supreme Court at the age of 66.
- In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward…
- In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the…
- The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders,…
- Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and…
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