“We who defeated the Israelis will also defeat the terrorists,” a Hezbollah fighter in Syria told the New York Times the other day, referring to Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in the early 1980s. “And we will take Jerusalem.” At the moment, Hezbollah is bogged down in Syria, with thousands of fighters seeking to defeat both …
The growing concerns of Arab nations over an emerging Iran nuclear deal and their reported desire for U.S. weapons to protect themselves are the unfortunate outgrowths of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy realism. To oversimplify a bit, U.S. foreign policy in the post-World War II period has revolved around the competing doctrines of idealism and …
WASHINGTON – “Of course, yes, death to America,” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei declared just last month, echoing the crowd chants as he marked the Persian new year. Seeking to turn the recent nuclear accord into a final deal, President Obama says he hopes a deal “ushers a new era in U.S.-Iranian relations,” with the …
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Of the new framework accord with Iran over its nuclear program, President Barack Obama said he hopes “that we can conclude this diplomatic arrangement – and that it ushers a new era in U.S.-Iranian relations – and, just as importantly, over time, a new era in Iranian relations with its neighbors.” In his weekend interview …
President Barack Obama’s vow to reassess U.S.-Israeli relations after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign remarks about a Palestinian state showcases his badly skewed views of Israel, its conflict with the Palestinians, its Arab neighbors and the true sources of regional instability. “We take him at his word,” Obama said of Netanyahu’s promise, which he walked …
From today’s diary entry of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Ah, the Americans. When it comes to our nuclear weapons program, they leave us with only good choices! On the one hand, I can drag out the talks beyond this month’s latest deadline because the desperate Americans certainly will agree to keep talking. That’s …
The world spins out of control at a dizzying pace, with chaos spreading across the Middle East and U.S.-led global order deteriorating elsewhere, all of which leaves Washington looking confused and tentative. In the Middle East, the Islamic State group expands its footprint in Iraq and Syria, Iran extends its reach into Yemen, Hezbollah flexes …