Monthly Archives : June 2014

Pragmatism, Obama and the Bergdahl swap


For nearly six years, Obama and his supporters have managed to fend off allegations that his foreign policy is even more ideological – and far more radical – than Bush’s by channeling the public’s aversion to pie-in-the-sky rhetoric and obfuscating facts.   US President Barack Obama is an artist of political propaganda. Both his greatest admirers and his most vociferous…

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Former U.S. Ambassador Criticizes Obama’s Foreign Policy


I find the interview below with former US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford extraordinary. I cannot recall a similar instance of a senior Obama administration official attacking Obama’s foreign policy in this way. -Caroline Glick   Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford: I could no longer ‘defend the American policy’   By Mick Krever Originally published at CNN.com  …

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Ending Abbas’s winning streak


  Mahmoud Abbas must be great at cards.   The PLO chief has no real assets to speak of.   He’s physically unattractive. He has zero charisma. He’s old. And no matter how hard he tries, Abbas can’t do much of anything to dampen public support for Hamas or raise public support for himself. By many accounts, if elections are…

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Would East Jerusalem Arabs rather be citizens of Israel or Palestine?


By  Natasha Mozgovaya Originally published by Haaretz.com   Arab residents of East Jerusalem are divided on whether they would want Israeli or Palestinian citizenship should a future Palestinian state be created, suggests a new poll released on Wednesday in Washington.   The survey, conducted by Pechter Middle East Polls in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations, asked a simple…

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Commentary Magazine Reviews The Israeli Solution


Review by Evelyn Gordon   Devotees of the two-state solution will surely dismiss Caroline Glick’s The Israeli Solution out of hand. They shouldn’t. Whether or not one agrees with Glick’s conclusions, it’s hard to dispute her premise: The two-state solution has failed repeatedly for more than 80 years, starting with serial British partition plans in the 1930s. Each time, it…

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