Rubin Reports

Lost: Obama's Middle East policy, 2013-2016.

The supposed advantage of democracy is that the media, academia, and others speak—where did I hear this before?—truth to power.

The Palestinian leadership's goal of wiping out Israel has not changed. Only if it ever does will there be any chance of a two-state solution.

Did President Obama have to lie in a UN speech?

Obama, a man who has spent a few hours in Israel and has no empathy with it, dares to say that he knows better what that country needs than does Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Why would the PA keep any post-treaty commitments? We know that Hamas will not.

Why is Israel releasing the worst terrorists for no gain, not even good publicity?

America can never be helping the Brotherhood because America is evil and satanic.

Does anyone notice that the Palestinians keep demanding more preconditions, Israeli concessions but never come to the table?

The PA will keep doing stalling tactics and come up with new preconditions that it hopes Israel will not meet.

This story brought home to me that to do one’s task rightly, to bear witness honestly, and to face the consequences without flinching should be the hallmarks of my field.

The military-civilian governors of Egypt are the same people who have always run the country. They have not done a great job.

You can no longer argue that solving the Arab-Israeli or Israel-Palestinian conflict will fix the region.

Suddenly, as the still-alive Confederates reached the Union line, we charged forward to go into action.

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Fundamental transformation is not for the faint of heart.

"We have to prove to the world that we are capable of democracy..."

No Jew need ever starve, because they always make a good living as a critic of Israel.

"He who tells the truth is driven from nine villages" -- Turkish proverb.

A mob of up to 3000 regular people, the neighbors, marched on the house where the Shia were gathered.

Tom Friedman doesn’t understand the Middle East, though he has persuaded a big audience otherwise.

The ideas that this is some far left thing is a slander by Islamists.

American policymakers are likely to be carried away and to see rebel victory as the equivalent of a good and heroic victory for freedom.

Is there no one who remembers this recent history?

The weapons will be given to people whose politics encompass hatred for Jews, Christians, the West generally, and Women.

Rowhani will have little power.

Yusuf al-Qaradawi knows how to express his ideas clearly and persuasively.

Do you want to arm the Syrian rebels so they can establish another Sharia state?

You have a massive counterterrorist project costing $1 trillion but when it comes down to it the thing repeatedly fails.