MIddle East

The House resolution proves that rational debate in the Congress about Israeli policy is taboo. Until that taboo is lifted, we cannot expect progress in Mideast peace talks.read more

Until most members of Congress show some respect for international law and some humanity toward Palestinians, there’s no reason for Israel to.read more

On Thursday night, Jon Stewart had Anna Baltzer, author of "Witness on Palestine," on The Daily Show. The program was inundated with hostile calls and e-mails from apologists for Israel's occupation. You can hear more from Baltzer in this interview Matthew Rothschild conducted with her earlier this year.read more

Obama’s embarrassing display of weakness will only embolden the Israeli hardliners and undermine those Palestinians who were willing to negotiate with the Israelis in the first place.read more

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Edward Said would be especially dismayed this week as leading figures in Palestine are denying the Holocaust.read more

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This was the Obama I admire. But he couldn’t help glossing over the realities of current U.S. policy.read more

In his speech to the Muslim world, President Obama offered little that was new. And he didn’t connect the dots in his bullet-point lecture. He failed to recognize how the multiple problems that hover over the region are increasingly linked and feed dangerously off each other.read more

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It was hard to stomach watching Obama salute “the long history of friendship” between the United States and Saudi Arabia and debase himself by saying he was there “to seek his Majesty’s counsel.”read more

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