Obama’s Moment of Choosing
The administration has just announced that the president will give a prime-time address on December 1, with the presumption being that the speech will largely center on his decision regarding troop...
View ArticleBlame America First — World War II Edition
Today is the 68th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Roosevelt memorably described December 7, 1941, as a “date that will live in infamy,” but as the number of...
View ArticleWhy Is Obama Acting So Weird?
There are two explanations (maybe more) for the White House’s eerie indifference to all the available evidence concerning their own shoddy performance and the public’s reaction to the same, which has...
View ArticleOne Last Time: Can the Chinese Bluff Obama Out of Meeting the Dalai Lama?
Peter, thanks for pointing out that there were other meetings between President Bush and the Dalai Lama. That is certainly to the former president’s credit, though we both know that there is a...
View ArticleHillary Tilts Talks Even Further Against Israel
The New York Times noted today a curious use of wording by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to describe the United States approach to prospective peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians....
View ArticleThey Don’t Make ’em Like Charlie Wilson Anymore
The death yesterday of former Texas Congressman “Good Time Charlie” Wilson will, no doubt, revive the discussion of what went wrong with American policy in the aftermath of the eviction of Soviet...
View ArticlePreconditions
The good news is that George Mitchell is staying home rather than traveling to Israel today. If nothing, we’ve seen the danger in too much face time between the U.S. and Israel. The bad news is that...
View ArticleNo Denying White House Animus Toward Israel
This White House likes symbolism. After Barack Obama moved in, one of the first things his staff did was to unceremoniously remove the bronze bust of Winston Churchill that had been in the Oval Office...
View ArticleNew World’s Record for Chutzpah: Obama’s Seder
Some 19 years ago, the first president Bush earned the enmity of American Jews with his rant about being “one lone guy” standing up against the horde of AIPAC activists exercising their constitutional...
View ArticleWhy Are Americans Pro-Israel? They Hate Muslims
M.J. Rosenberg is a leading light in the “progressive” scene. He was formerly at the Israel Policy Forum and today posts embarrassing rants at the Talking Points Memo blog and is a “Senior Foreign...
View ArticleObama’s Hopes for Israeli ‘Regime Change’ Will Backfire
Veteran peace processor Aaron David Miller gets it half right in today’s Los Angeles Times when he dissects the apparent desire of the Obama administration to drive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
View Article
