Tag: U.S. foreign policy

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?

Visits of Western leaders complicate old problems and create new ones, and moreover, the chances that these visits will yield a positive effect or result in a real solution to any problem, is quite low.

A tangled web of non-profit political organizations reveals that George Soros is behind yet another Jewish anti-Zionist front.

It's not surprising that, especially in Egypt, the State Department had a hard time finding someone who did not share the common prejudices against Jews.

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.

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

What this year’s AIPAC confab proves is that there is considerable mileage in the values Israel shares not just with the U.S. but with other western states like Canada.

Extra thoughts that could not make the main text of "When AIPAC Went AWOL."

We'll be here, Mr. President, long after you have turned to dust, your memory not even a breeze in the wind.

The American foreign policy error was to assume that the political grievances of the Arab Street could be appeased with democracy.

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

The age of Obama and Hagel needs the robust AIPAC of old.

Overlooking incendiary rhetoric is exactly what led to the global delegitimization of Israel.

It is very doubtful that Obama, whose big plan for Afghanistan was to copy the Bush plan for Iraq that he denounced in the Senate, has a backup plan. Brennan certainly does not.

Assassination sends a specific signal to others not to follow in the victim's footsteps.

Once it becomes operational, the Arrow 3 will form another layer of defense over millions of Israelis.

The Gaza Strip is swarming with radical Islamist groups whose goal is to destroy Israel and the U.S. Most emerged after the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

The best thing we can do is educate the next generation on what the source of our light in the world is.

Four Republican senators voted in favor of Hagel, including Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Obama, don't come...or at least have the decency to bring Jonathan Pollard home.

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.

It now remains to be seen whether Obama is aware of this attempt to put pressure on him, or whether he will continue to turn a blind eye.

In the version of events provided by Argo, it wasn't radical Islamists who stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, but the Iranian people as a whole.

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.

According to former Mossad official Rafi Eitan, the Egyptian military was ready to announce that Ahmed Shafiq won elections, but the US pressured them to announce in favor of Morsi.

You expressed having had "genuine concerns" about Hagel prior to your White House meeting with him; now is the moment for you to follow the dictates of your conscience.

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 the Mullahs can simply buy a usable and tested bomb design from North Korea, they could transform their status into a nuclear weapons state overnight.

Iran is waiting for the United States to flee from Afghanistan in order to take control of it and its resources.