Washington Watch Articles From 2004
Bush’s Message and Middle East Reality
The Middle East policy debate, here in the United States, has sunk to a shamefully low level. As Israeli forces ravage Gaza,
PALESTINIANS: STILL VICTIMS OF POLITICS, BIGOTRY AND PASSIVITY
With Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promising still more assassinations, including that of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat,
SHARON’S VICTORY?
Israeli Prime Minster Ariel Sharon may be facing criminal indictments that could end his political career, but the Bush Administration appears ready to hand him the victory he has long sought.
SILENCING DEBATE
Four years ago, Arab American leaders met with a prominent Democratic Senator, who had sponsored and fought to pass legislation that called on the United Sates to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and was now rethinking his views.
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF
The more things change, the more things stay the same. The dynamic in today’s Israeli-Palestinian and U.S. relationship is disturbingly similar to the Zionist-Palestinian-British relationship of the 1920s.