The Peace Process Letter(s)
Citing “Palestinian sources,” Ynet reports the Palestinians expect their own package of U.S. guarantees and financial incentives to persuade them to return to talks intended to give them a state: The...
View ArticleNATO Going Cold Turkey
More evidence that NATO is in trouble has come alive as the alliance prepares for its summit this weekend. As reported in several news sources, Turkey has gotten its way, and NATO officialdom will make...
View ArticleRE: So How’s the Bribe-a-thon Going?
Not all that well. For starters George Mitchell isn’t even in the region. I wondered why and e-mailed State Department spokesman PJ Crowley. He replied: “His deputy, David Hale, was in the region last...
View ArticleNOW, We’re (Not) Talking
Perhaps the Obama administration has finally lost its infatuation with engagement. This marks a step in the right direction and a departure from the Bush administration and the first two years of this...
View ArticleSo Much for Civility: Dem Senator Likens Tax Cutters to “Terrorists”
When establishment kibitzers talk about the need to restore for civility, there isn’t much doubt whom they are complaining about. In the last year and a half, Tea Party insurgents helped change the...
View ArticleCan’t Anybody in the Obama Administration Talk Without Saying Embarrassing...
This morning, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley responded to a question on Fox News about the new administration report on how, to quote Tom Joscelyn on the Weekly Standard website, “150 former...
View ArticleA Plan in Search of an Avenue
Yesterday’s State Department press conference featured a lengthy discussion about next steps in the administration’s hapless peace process, now that the administration has dropped its attempt to renew...
View ArticleRadical Islam to Be Investigated: CAIR Cries Foul
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said yesterday that the House Committee on Homeland Security that he will chair in the next Congress will hold hearings on the radicalization of American Islam. Given the string...
View ArticleHonduras, Obama, and Occam’s Razor
In the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Mary Anastasia O’Grady wrote that cables released by WikiLeaks show that the administration knew Honduran President Manuel Zelaya had threatened Honduran democracy...
View ArticleBush’s Book Triumph
According to the UK’s Daily Mail, President George W. Bush’s book, Decision Points, has sold 2 million copies since it was released early last month. By way of comparison, President Clinton’s memoir,...
View ArticleRE: Palestinians’ UN Gambit Puts Both Israel and Obama on the Spot
The Associated Press has published excerpts from the Palestinians’ draft resolution; it seeks a declaration that Israeli settlements are “illegal” and a “major obstacle” to peace, and demands that...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
As the GOP prepares to read the Constitution on the floor of the House this morning — in a nod to the new Tea Party members of Congress — Seth Lipsky discusses why the reading of the founding document...
View ArticleThe Ninth Step
President Obama has recently taken eight steps toward the right. As Peter noted yesterday, Romesh Ponnuru listed six: (1) the tax deal; (2) selecting Bill Daley as chief of staff; (3) absolving...
View ArticleBringing Change to Foreign Policy
At his Council on Foreign Relations blog, Elliott Abrams notes that Obama’s “engagement” policy suffers from an inherent contradiction: [H]e believes in the UN Security Council and the Human Rights...
View ArticleJim DeMint to Boycott CPAC
The last time I wrote about social conservatives’ boycott of CPAC due to the participation of GOProud, a Republican gay-rights group, I predicted that it would have little impact on the success of the...
View ArticleA Peek into the Plans for ‘Freedom Flotilla II’
An Israeli investigation into last year’s flotilla incident may have just ended, but pro-Palestinian activists are still gearing up their plans for the “Freedom Flotilla II.” The new flotilla will be...
View ArticleLebanon: An Inflection Point for the Status Quo
The stakes are as high as they could possibly be in Lebanon: Hezbollah, the terrorist group backed by Iran, has obtained coalition approval to nominate its own candidate for prime minister as a...
View ArticlePalin Skips Out on CPAC Again
Sarah Palin is the latest in a string of prominent conservatives who have decided not to attend this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, which takes place in Washington D.C. next week....
View ArticleMuslim Brotherhood Wants to End Israel Peace Treaty
A high-ranking member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has come out and said that any new Egyptian government must end the three-decade-old peace treaty with Israel. As progressives continue to argue...
View ArticleWith Brothers Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
Following up on Alana’s post, this from the Jerusalem Post: “A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt on Thursday evening repeatedly refused to commit to maintaining the peace treaty with...
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