Washington Watch Articles From 2011
Strategic Thinking Needed to Juggle Israeli-Palestinian Equation
On the very day that the New York Times reported that the Israeli military had demolished the homes of Palestinians in the Jordan Valley in order to clear the area to consolidate Israeli control, that very same military was being rebuffed in its efforts to remove an illegal Jewish settler outpost in that very same occupied West Bank.
The Change We Need
When speaking about the Arab uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and beyond, the language used here in the U.S. is euphoric.
After Egypt: Arab Voices Matter
If one lesson is to be learned from the remarkable events unfolding in Egypt, it is that Arab public opinion matters.
Politics and Nonsense on Egypt
When U.S. politicians are forced to discuss critical Middle East matters, more often than not, their remarks either display an ignorance of facts, are shaped more by political needs than reality, or are just plain dumb.