Rubin Reports

Perhaps these seeming word games and niceties are beyond the interest or comprehension of many people, but everyone involved directly on this issue knows exactly what is happening.

Why help put into power and then favor people who hate you, lie about you, and want to destroy you? What is the pay-off?

The problem of this government is more likely to be one of personalities, marginal issues that get blown up in importance, and jockeying for financial benefits for different constituencies.

In August 2010, Obama ordered a secret report on unrest in the Arab world.

Despite the current policy's serious problems and visibly dangerous outcomes there is no major debate it.

Israeli officials will be very polite in discussions and sarcastic when they talk among themselves afterward.

If the US cannot depend on its new “allies,” despite the supposed popularity of Obama and its policies in those places, then how can they be said to be allies at all?

The Egyptian regime doesn't want a war or even a high level of conflict at this time.

Historically, inasmuch as there was any European or American “imperialism” in the Middle East it made use of Arab political factors over Israel.

We are going to be told often in the next two months that things are going to get better in Egypt. It's likely that they are going to get worse.

Despite Obama's disastrous Middle East policy, in practice, there have been no real, material, or huge problems in direct U.S.-Israel relations.

What the Obama Administration has done is like trying to reduce crime by turning over the cities to the Mafia and letting it make the laws and also run the police and court systems.

Classic westerns demonstrate that Americans have long been tolerant and understanding toward other peoples.

Pretending there’s no elephant in the world doesn’t protect anyone from getting trampled.

This is all a tragedy for the poor victims in the Middle East and a farce for the well-paid, much-honored careerist opportunists and ideologues in the West.

Especially remarkable is the behavior of Esther. Warned of Haman’s plan, Esther wants to do nothing lest she place herself at risk.

It’s bad enough to be mugged repeatedly but it’s even worse to provide the weapons and money for the assailants while also praising them.

A secretary of defense should not just be a “yes-man.” He should represent an independent point of view and also represent his department’s interests.

Obama went to sleep and he has yet to wake up. And there's graphic proof for that assertion in the streets of Benghazi today.

If they could have pressed a button and Israel would have disappeared, almost none of them would have hesitated.

Obama's State of the Union address touted an American return to world leadership, but concealed the failure of Obama's policies, especially in the Middle East.

In Tunesia, where non-Islamists are actually the majority, the elimination of Choukri Belaid wasn't just a crime, but a political strategy.

After going along with Obama, it is now said in the United States that Netanyahu tried to undermine Obama or didn’t cooperate.

This may be a cautionary lesson about how the fear of seeming to be a 'racist' or 'Islamophobe' can be manipulated to fool people into forgetting law and logic.

While such a visit would resolve previous criticism that Obama never visited Israel as president, it is a mistake, especially given the timing, for a number of reasons.

Hagel's brain is the mass market version of Kerry's and Kerry's is the collector's edition of Obama.

The pseudo-realists in charge of western foreign policy today confuse what other countries should be doing with what they are actually doing.

The internal drive to delegitimize America may aimed at overcoming natural American patriotism by those who would transform the country’s thinking.

Kerry subscribes--as is so fashionable today in the Obama Administration and academia--to the abusive relationship approach to foreign policy.

The left has sided with the reactionaries and against their comrades in other countries because they hate their own countries’ systems more.