Tag: Kerry

The proposed swap would not include the "outposts."

Like the French House of Bourbon, Tzipi Livni has learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

The official text from President Obama on the P5+1 deal with Iran.

"There was an explosion in the meeting," one Palestinian official close to the talks told Ma'an.

The lobbyist tried to convince me that this is pragmatic politics, that this is the argument around which we can now achieve a consensus.

To remind you, the first release of Palestinian prisoners with Jewish blood on their hands is scheduled for Tuesday, on the eve of the talks in Jerusalem.

Since a majority of Palestinians cannot envision mutual recognition even after all issues are resolved and they get a state, they see it as merely a pause before the conflict would begin anew.

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

The 104 terrorists slated to be released by Israel have blood of many men, women and children on their hands.

Netanyahu told his cabinet that any agreement would be brought to a vote of the people.

Rumors first emerged in December that Dermer would be appointed Ambassador, this time it appears it might happen.

Neither Secretary of State Kerry nor the president he serves seem to understand Russia's goals in the Middle East.

Fayyad has no grassroots support or political power bases among Palestinians.

Trying to outsmart Israel, the PA is demanding that Israel hand over maps, to use them as the sole basis for negotiations,

I think Obama is genuine in his expression of appreciation and even admiration for the Jewish people and the State of Israel.

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 Obama administration's various policies have signaled to the mullahs that they ultimately have nothing to fear from Washington.

The U.S. has also announced recently that it would begin supplying non-lethal supplies to opposition forces for the first time.

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

What will Kerry have to offer the man who stands to lose not just his power, but his life, and, even worse, the lives of his thousands of fellow Alawites?

The president’s trip, his first to Israel since taking office, appears to show that he intends to concentrate on Middle East politics.

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

Daniel Pipes: I predicted that 'Israel's troubles will really begin' should Obama win a second term. These have begun; Jerusalem, brace for a rough four years.

President Obama spent his first term pushing from power longstanding Arab allies in Egypt and Tunisia, seeking to engage the now blood-soaked Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, pulling his punches against Iran’s nuclear program, and putting “daylight” between his administration and Israel.

There are those who think a politician cannot be charged with anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism if the politician appoints Jews or Israelis to high positions....

Smart people can make bad judgments; regular people with common sense often make bad judgments less often. But stupid, arrogant people with terrible ideas are a disaster.

"I think it's none of our business in Israel to intervene in American domestic decisions."