Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri is scheduled to meet with President Obama in Washington on May 24th, and the two will have much to discuss. Hariri and Obama Lebanon’s and the United States have a long relationship loosely based on their common democracy and Christian influence. But the relationship between America and Lebanon is not […]
Alright. I admit it. I probably sound like Dick Cheney on the verge of the Iraq invasion with the amount of war foreshadowing that I’ve referenced repeatedly in recent posts. But, that won’t stop me. I write what I see. Both Iran and Israel are stocking their arsenals to prepare for a head-on collision, with […]
The Israeli economy has defied all odds. A mere 60 years ago, most Israelis were farmers, living on kibbutzim and cultivating the land, transforming swamps and deserts become a world leader in science, with high-tech booming and Israeli companies taking the lead on military technologies. Similarly, Israeli drug maker Teva has become a generic pharmaceutical […]
There’s quite a bit of information out there on Israel-related issues and its often hard to weed out the nonsense from the biased to the legitimate (and, many of this blog’s readers might label me in the former two categories). An assortment of news sites, ranging from the Jerusalem Post to Haaretz to Ma’an to […]
There is a big debate in Jewish/pro-Israel circles on whether being anti-Israel is inherently antisemitic. The basic argument is that no other country has its legitimacy questioned and every other ethnicity/religion has its own country. The concept of Mexico is not generally called illegitimate nor is the concept of New Zealand, albeit some fringe groups […]
Israel has managed to maintain a policy of nuclear ambiguity for decades, refusing to comment on whether it has a nuclear arsenal. It is widely believed that Israel has a couple hundred nuclear warheads, likely scattered throughout the country and ready to launch in the event Israel is threatened with annihilation. Granted, other countries — […]
The Scud missile scandal of two weeks ago has turned into the M600 scandal of today. Does Israel really believe these accusations? Is Syria really smuggling these weapons to Hizballah? And if so, what does it mean for the future of the Levant? While the prospect of Hizballah actually obtaining Scuds is discussed here, these […]
The United States has renewed sanctions against Syria after considering sending an ambassador to Damascus and taking steps to normalize relations. The reasons cited for this move is Syrian intransigence in her ties with Iran, her snub of the recent Arab summits on international security, and the sale of SCUD missiles to Hezbollah. Please read […]
Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad is everywhere. His plan to develop economic, political, social, and security institutions has rapidly caught the world’s attention over the last year and Fayyad is slowly gaining ground among the Palestinian population — all this from a man who was appointed to his position because of the dismal popularity he […]
Book Review: How Did the Persian Empire Collapse? This book review was originally published in Iran Times International in Washington D.C. Decline and fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran, Parvaneh Pourshariati (International Library of Iranian Studies), 510 pp. This is a landmark work of original scholarship that gathers […]
One of the more shocking stories regarding Iranian nuclear program I read this weekend was The New York Times’ article “U.S. Subpoenas Times Reporter Over Book on C.I.A.” The author, James Risen, who is a reporter for The New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize winner, received a subpoena requiring him to provide documents and […]
See. As I said yesterday, I told you the administration loves us. President Obama proclaimed that May is Jewish Heritage Month. Oddly enough, he also proclaimed that May 1 is both Law Day (yes, there is that stereotype about Jews) and Loyalty Day (and yes, there is the bigoted dual-allegiance claim about Jewish-Americans that resurfaces […]
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