by Alon Ben-Meir
Added 01.09.2010
As direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are launched this week, it will be critical that the talks address the religious dimension of the conflict. This has been given only scant attention thus far, despite the fact that it...
by James J. Zogby
Added 30.08.2010
A few years back when Washington was preparing for the then highly touted Annapolis Peace Conference, I remember commenting that I was "hopeful, but not optimistic". As we approach the latest incarnation of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, I'm...
by Binoy Kampmark
Added 30.08.2010
The use of the term 'hung parliament' says it all. States using the Westminster system regard it as a calamity and undeserved form of punishment. Suddenly, a major party with an insufficient number of votes to govern in their own right needs the...
by James J. Zogby
Added 23.08.2010
Something remarkable happened on November 4, 2008. Despite economic distress, uncertainty and insecurity, voters went to the polls and chose hope over fear electing Barack Obama President of the United States. I say remarkable because in all my...
by Alon Ben-Meir
Added 23.08.2010
The Obama administration's success in moving the Israeli-Palestinian talks from proximity to direct negotiations is an important achievement for making real progress. However, direct talks will not produce substantive results unless the United...
by Alon Ben-Meir
Added 21.08.2010
Israel's chief reservation regarding the Arab Peace Initiative is the way in which the text addresses the issue of Palestinian refugees. Specifically, the Initiative calls upon Israel to affirm: "achievement of a just solution to the Palestinian...
by Robert Creamer
Added 17.08.2010
It is obvious to many Americans who believe strongly in our Constitutional values that the Republican attempt to use the "New York Mosque" as an electoral issue is a direct assault on the constitutional protection for freedom of religion - one...
by Robert Creamer
Added 17.08.2010
What's the difference between mainstream Republican leaders and the Tea Party extremists that have been winning Republican primaries across the country? The main difference is the willingness of the Tea Party gang to say what they believe out...
by Alon Ben-Meir
Added 16.08.2010
Earlier this summer I was in Jerusalem meeting with various officials and catching up with old friends. Minutes after meeting a friend, a former high-up official in Israel's Foreign Ministry, he ran back to see me. "Alon, come quick, you have to...
by Steve Clemons
Added 11.08.2010
In an important article to be published in The Atlantic tomorrow [=August 12], national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg recounts something many people didn't realize at the time and still have a hard time believing. President George W. Bush...
by James J. Zogby
Added 09.08.2010
Republicans have dug a deep hole for themselves on matters related to the Middle East and Islam reflecting the extent to which the Party has become captive of the neo-conservative "clash of civilization" crowd and their partners on the...
by Sharmine Narwani
Added 07.08.2010
I met with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa at his elegant quarters in the heart of Cairo last week -- on the eve of the League's crucial meeting with Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas to dehttp://monet.factsandarts.com/#798cide...
by Alon Ben-Meir
Added 06.08.2010
While the world reacts to the recent flair-up of violence along the Lebanon-Israel border, other developments in the area could present an opportunity to advance regional peace if pursued. The recent visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and...
by Robert Creamer
Added 05.08.2010
To hear some pundits tell it, the out come of the Mid-terms is preordained disaster for Democrats. Not so fast. Much depends on how Democratic candidates frame their efforts - and how Progressives in general frame the political debate over the...
by Binoy Kampmark
Added 04.08.2010
Another Australian election looms, and the incumbent government is intent on ritually disembowelling itself. Having deposed its own prime minister, the first Labor government to defeat the conservative Coalition since it was bundled out of...
by James J. Zogby
Added 04.08.2010
After a century in which tragedy has been heaped upon tragedy across the Middle East, it is distressing to see how many dangerous illusions still shape the behavior of so many of the region's principal players. This truth was brought home by a...
by Binoy Kampmark
Added 04.08.2010
In his second notebook, Albert Camus makes reference to the nature of love as a palliative to the absurd. In Burnt by The Sun 2: Exodus, Nikita Mikhalkov continues his epic story he began in Burnt by the Sun (1994) featuring the travails of...
by Robert Creamer
Added 03.08.2010
Ever since the Court handed President Obama's Justice Department a big victory by enjoining the enforcement of major provisions of the onerous Arizona "papers please" immigration law, there has been pundit commentary that the decision will be...
by Robert Creamer
Added 28.07.2010
President Obama has proposed to eliminate the massive deficit-busting Bush tax breaks for the top 2% of Americans - while maintaining tax cuts for 95% of Americans. He is spot on. The Bush tax breaks are set to expire at year's end, so there is...
by Sharmine Narwani
Added 27.07.2010
In what was touted right here on the Huffington Post as "one of the few genuine debates on Israel-Middle East issues" in Washington, former US Ambassador Chas Freeman and WINEP Executive Director Rob Satloff tackled the subject of "Israel: Asset...
by Steve Clemons
Added 27.07.2010
At the time, the belief that George Bush and Dick Cheney would take military action against Iran was palpable. When I wrote my piece which was based on a great number of discussions with intelligence analysts, military brass, and others in the...
by Michael Brenner
Added 27.07.2010
Revelations of the incompetence and deceit that have marked our Afghan adventure appeared just as the foreign affairs cognoscenti were bandying about the latest big question: Can General David Petraeus repeat his Iraqi miracle? The formulation...
by James J. Zogby
Added 26.07.2010
As an Arab American, I can empathize with Shirley Sherrod, the Georgia Department of Agriculture official who, last week, after being falsely accused of making anti-white racist comments, was forced to resign from her post. For those who don't...
by Robert Creamer
Added 26.07.2010
Breitbart, verb, to intentionally make something appear to be its opposite for political ends. As in, "to brietbart Shirley Sherrod." It's not everyday that someone gets a new word named after him. But that is exactly what is about to happen to...
by Binoy Kampmark
Added 26.07.2010
The sink or swim society is upon us, and woe betide the poor, the frail, the old, the sick and the dependent. Mary Riddle, Daily Telegraph, July 19, 2010 Could it be right? A Tory Prime Minister unveiling visions of a 'Big Society' that would...
by Alon Ben-Meir
Added 24.07.2010
Israel's national security and self-preservation as a democracy, if not its very existence, depend on its ability and willingness to come to terms with the reality of coexistence with the Palestinians on the basis of a two-state solution....
by Robert Creamer
Added 23.07.2010
The first rule for Democratic success this November is the immutable iron law of politics: if you're on the defense you're losing. Who ever is on the offensive almost always wins elections. That's why Democratic victory requires that this...
by Steve Clemons
Added 23.07.2010
The US should be more ready to stand its ground with China. It won't get any respect in Beijing for trying to appease it. Confucius said 'The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.' From a Chinese perspective, the same can...
by Alon Ben-Meir
Added 20.07.2010
The following article represents the first in a series of articles and position papers that I will be sending out following my recent travels in the Middle East. I welcome and appreciate all comments and thoughts on my work. When the Palestinian...
by Binoy Kampmark
Added 20.07.2010
It all seems grim. Some called it an execution by police forces. But the debate on Raoul Moat continues to rage. Britain's most wanted man has become something of a poster boy of sickened violence, responsible for having shot his former...
by James J. Zogby
Added 19.07.2010
White House spokesperson, Robert Gibbs, caused a bit of a stir last week when, in an appearance on Meet the Press, he suggested that Democrats might lose control of the House of Representatives in November. To be fair, Gibbs was merely saying...
by Robert Creamer
Added 14.07.2010
The Republicans have a set of dirty little (actually not so little) secrets they don't what you to know - and certainly don't want you to think about when you go to the polls in November. And the fact is that some of those secrets could provide...
by James J. Zogby
Added 13.07.2010
Two decades ago, I remember Jesse Jackson noting that when dealing with controversial issues that created deep divisions, one should be careful "not to excite one side, while only inciting the other". Although these cautionary words apply...
by Michael Brenner
Added 12.07.2010
The "Comatose Sleeper Cell" mystery shows us that the ability of the country's security services to waste resources is matched only by the media's ability to dramatize trivial material. The only surprise is that the exchange did not take place...
by Robert Creamer
Added 12.07.2010
Members of Congress see it in their town meetings, their mail, their polls and focus groups: the voters are angry. Of course at any given time, some set of voters are always unhappy. But right now it's different. Right now most people are...
by Sharmine Narwani
Added 09.07.2010
"Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot." And so this is how an 86-letter Tweet ended the career of CNN's veteran Middle East editor Octavia Nasr. I grew up watching Octavia on...
by Michael Brenner
Added 07.07.2010
War is the enemy of democracy. A protracted war is its nemesis. That means not only undermining civil liberties but an erosion of the honest discourse that is the essence of democracy. A truthful press is the first casualty. The press'...
by Sharmine Narwani
Added 06.07.2010
Hezbollah and Hamas just went mainstream. According to Foreign Policy magazine's Mark Perry, in a recent US military report "senior CENTCOM intelligence officers question the current U.S. policy of isolating and marginalizing the two movements"...
by James J. Zogby
Added 06.07.2010
Two separate incidents of Muslim-bashing occurred last week. Because they involved comments by prominent individuals and were so brazen, they caused some concern. But because neither resulted in any benefit to the offenders, only embarrassed...
by Andrew Weil
Added 02.07.2010
In my home state of Arizona, a restaurant named "Heart Attack Grill" does brisk business in Chandler, a Phoenix suburb. Waitresses in nurse-themed uniforms with miniskirts deliver single, double, triple and quadruple "bypass burgers" (featuring...
by Alan Kraut
Added 01.07.2010
When President Barack Obama needs strength, he invokes a Republican, Abraham Lincoln. At his inauguration, Obama took the oath on the same Bible that Lincoln used and embraced the Lincoln legacy throughout the event. The sixteenth president's...
by James J. Zogby
Added 30.06.2010
I am not easily shocked. I've been doing this work for too many years and I've seen too much to become outraged by bad behavior or acts of indecency or inhumanity. But two stories that recently came across my desk were so disgraceful, and in...
by Robert Creamer
Added 24.06.2010
There is compelling new evidence that Republicans will rue the day that they allowed their virulent anti-immigrant wing to grab the controls of the Republican Party. In fact, contrary to much of the pundit chatter, a drama is playing out this...
by James J. Zogby
Added 21.06.2010
The success of a President is measured not only by how well he handles the agenda he sets for his term in office, but by how he responds to the unexpected. This week President Obama was tested by challenges of each type. There are new questions...
by Robert Creamer
Added 21.06.2010
The way the Republicans reacted to Congressman Joe Barton's "apology" to BP at the hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee reminds you of what happens when a group of teenagers find out that a member of their "secret club" has...
by Alon Ben-Meir
Added 21.06.2010
The now infamous Flotilla incident which resulted in the death of nine Turks has sparked a whirlwind of accusations and provocations between Israel and Turkey that has put the relationship at an all time low. The timing could not have been...
by Robert Creamer
Added 18.06.2010
"I know we should provide more money for state government to prevent hundreds of thousands of teachers, police, and public workers from being laid off, but I just can't vote for one more bill that increases the deficit." If I had a dollar for...
by Robert Creamer
Added 15.06.2010
For half a century, United States policy toward Cuba has been aimed at isolating and defeating the regime. That policy has demonstrably failed. Fidel Castro and his successor Raul Castro, have outlasted presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson,...
by James J. Zogby
Added 15.06.2010
In trying to change direction and find “a better approach” to dealing with the long running crisis facing Gaza, the Obama Administration is confronting several deeply entrenched obstacles. The President outlined his new approach at a White...
by Michael Brenner
Added 14.06.2010
Two weeks have passed since the Gaza flotilla was assaulted. The reflexive, near instant reaction of the Obama White House was to give strong, blanket support to the Israeli government. Some hoped that reflection would produce a more thoughtful...
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Overview: Christina Romer, Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, said she is “incredibly confident” the U.S. economy will recover within a year.1 We disagree. The objectives of this paper are four-fold: 1) To discuss the...
by Chris Patten
270 reviews
LONDON - Bipartisanship seems to have taken a drubbing in Washington since President Barack Obama got to the White House. Like most recent American presidents, Obama campaigned on a promise to work with his political opponents for the greater...
by Tawfik Hamid
244 reviews
The film "Fitna" by Dutch parliament member Geert Wilders has created an uproar around the world because it links violence committed by Islamists to Islam. Many commentators and politicians -- including the British government, which denied him...
by Michael Brenner
10 reviews
Strikes against al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan's FATA and in Iraq are said to have damaged severely its leadership ranks. There is talk in Washington of this being a turning-point in the campaign to cripple the organization. Caution about reaching...
by Chris Patten
86 reviews
LONDON - In her brilliant book, "The Uses and Abuses of History" the historian Margaret Macmillan tells a story about two Americans discussing the atrocities of September 11, 2001. One draws an analogy with Pearl Harbor, Japan's attack on the US...
by Evelyn Leopold
130 reviews
Torture victims often lose their voice twice: first during the torture itself and then when no one listens to their ordeal, Actress Emma Thompson says. Thompson, an Academy Award winner, and Helen Bamber, who heads a foundation dedicated to...
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Tawfik Hamid
101 reviews
President Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia law, the Daily Telegraph reported on October 8,...
by David Eichler
428 reviews
The recent slowdown, it is suggested here, was not caused so much by the collapse of a housing bubble or mortgage delinquency, as is frequently claimed, but rather by losses of capital due to high costs for energy and operation of the financial...
by Alexander Etkind
358 reviews
CAMBRIDGE - Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power a decade ago, the Kremlin regime has relied on two pillars: the security forces and energy exports. By suppressing internal rivals and absorbing their assets, the regime created a dual...
by David Bromwich
112 reviews
If you want to kill with a clean conscience, the faces of the enemy had better be blank. Start to see them as human beings and it becomes harder to blockade and bomb them, to mine, and pollute, and "destabilize." President Clinton had no...
by Dhiraj Singh
125 reviews
This local koan begins to make sense as you prepare to enter the ICT or the Islamabad Capital Territory. It is a bit like entering the First World from a Third World country by road. The check-posts, the armed guards, the four-lane highway that...
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
280 reviews
NEW YORK - The world has yet to achieve the macroeconomic policy coordination that will be needed to restore economic growth following the Great Crash of 2008. In much of the world, consumers are now cutting their spending in response to a fall...
by Rebecca MacKinnon and Evgeny Morozov
756 reviews
NEW YORK - Even the most cold-hearted realists would agree that the failure of Communist censorship played a role in the collapse of the Iron Curtain: Voice of America, the fax machine, rock 'n' roll, and the lure of Western capitalism helped to...
by Jarl R. Ahlbeck
1157 reviews
The recovery of the earth's climate from the little ice age started about 200 years ago, but the concentration of the atmospheric carbon dioxide started to increase significantly as late as in the 1950s, probably due to rapidly increased burning...
by Jonathan Pontell
201 reviews
U.S. President Barack Obama's trip to Europe marked the culmination of a generational shift in leadership among Western democracies. The generation yielding power -- the Baby Boomers -- are so strongly connected to the 1960's that they are often...
by Dylan Loewe
109 reviews
Well, she didn't quit to run for president. Nobody would do that, could possibly do that, could at any point be told by any person that an idea that crazy might actually work out. It's not just that it's irrational; it's that it's insane. There...
by Robert Creamer
66 reviews
Those who don't live in the nation's capital may so far have been spared the columnist-generated imbroglio over who is "to blame" for the fact that many of President Obama's flagship initiatives have yet to pass into law. Many candidates have...
by Kenneth Rogoff
283 reviews
REYKJAVIK - No one yet has any real idea about when the global financial crisis will end, but one thing is certain: government budget deficits are headed into the stratosphere. Investors in the coming years will need to be persuaded to hold...
by David Eichler
110 reviews
Evenhandedness in the Mideast? It sounds fair if it means equal rules for Arabs and Jews. For example, forbidding natural growth of Jewish settlements inside the West Bank and the Gaza strip, on the assumption that it is future sovereign...
by Alon Ben-Meir
122 reviews
I am departing from my usual analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict as I profoundly feel that these are neither ordinary times, nor ordinary circumstances. The challenges and opportunities that Israel faces today will undoubtedly lay the ground...
by Alon Ben-Meir
224 reviews
Now that Israel has unilaterally declared an end to the hostilities it appears that Hamas, which has been badly crippled, will eventually sign on to the ceasefire. Having achieved its war objectives, Israel must demonstrate that the war was...
by James Zogby
211 reviews
When Benjamin Netanyahu became Prime Minister in 1996, he ran on a platform dedicated to ending the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. That is what he said in Israel. For U.S. consumption, Netanyahu took a different approach, seeking instead to...
by Shlomo Ben-Ami
125 reviews
TEL AVIV - President Barack Obama's vision of a world without nuclear weapons, and the recent agreement he signed with Russia aimed at cutting back the nuclear stockpiles of both countries, enhances his moral and political leadership. But how...
by Alon Ben-Meir
109 reviews
The ongoing deliberations among President Obama's national security team and congressional leaders are necessary to determine the best possible means of successfully conducting the war in Afghanistan. But what must guide these discussions and...
by Carl Honoré
96 reviews
Google seems like the last employer on earth that would promote slowness at work. After all, this is a company that went from a twinkle in its founders' eyes to global supremacy in a just a few years. It pumps out new products at a dizzying...
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