The danger of war is growing again over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Iran is rattling its sabers, the Republican presidential candidates and others are rattling theirs. But even if Iran gets the bomb, Israel will have overwhelming military superiority (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: Last February at the Brookings Institution's US-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a passionate speech calling for an end to the "siege" of Gaza and demanding that Israel lift its (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: Last February at the Brookings Institution's US-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a passionate speech calling for an end to the “siege” of Gaza and demanding that Israel lift its (...)
The next Middle East war will probably be a reprieve of the last, a second war in Gaza, only this time even more violent and destabilizing for the entire region. The first Gaza war last January left unfinished business and a humanitarian (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: The indirect negotiations between Syria and Israel that began last May have gone as far as they can. Their purpose - to break the ice between the two states after eight years of not talking, and to test one another's resolve over (...)
Hamas s swift victory in the June 2007 battle of Gaza was a stunning defeat for American interests in the Middle East. Hamas, an organization the United States has blackballed for 20 years, took control of 1.4 million Palestinians in less than a (...)
