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U.S. Middle East Policy

Nov 18, 2009: ‘We Must Redefine What it Means to be Pro-Israel’
Comments: 0 | Categories: U.S. Middle East Policy
Former U.S. Federal Trade Commission Attorney Ralph E. Stone, who writes regularly on international affairs, asserts in a November 15, 2009, post in the Californian Chronicle, which was also published at Fog City Journal.com, says, “Now is the time for...

Nov 11, 2009: Is Rahm Emanuel ‘Trying to Isolate Israel From America’?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Obama's Foreign Policy , U.S. Middle East Policy
Steve Clemon’s informative and influential blog The Washington Note has a November 6, 2009, post by Nahum Barnea, a correspondent for Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth, that I highly recommend. It’s headlined “Does Netanyahu Believe Rahm Emanuel is Trying to Isolate Israel...

Nov 7, 2009: Is President Obama Responsible for Abbas’ Political Decisions?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Obama's Foreign Policy , U.S. Middle East Policy
The Nation’s Robert Dreyfus contends in a November 6, 2009 column in The Dreyfus Report that “The announcement by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he will not run for reelection is the exclamation point on the utter collapse of the...

Nov 6, 2009: The U.S. House of Representatives for Israel
Comments: 0 | Categories: Middle East Affairs , U.S. Middle East Policy
I highly recommend Nation columnist John Nichols’ November 5, 2009, post headlined “House Adopts Know-Nothing Approach to Middle-East.” It’s about the U.S. House of Representatives 344-36 vote to reject any consideration of the the ‘Report of the United Nations Fact...

Jan 6, 2009: Obama’s Answer To a Question About Gaza
Comments: 0 | Categories: Israel & Palestine , Obama Administration , U.S. Middle East Policy
On January 6, 2009, President-Elect Barack Obama finally made a public statement on Israel’s war on Gaza. It came at the end of a news conference on his economic stimulus plan at his Washington, DC-transition office. “Obviously, I am deeply...

Dec 28, 2008: The Jerusalem Post: “IAF Uses New US-supplied Smart Bomb’ in Gaza City
Comments: 0 | Categories: Israel & Palestine , Middle East Affairs , U.S. Middle East Policy
The Jerusalem Post’s Yaakov Katz reported December 24, 2008, that, “The Israel Air Force used a new bunker-buster missile that it received recently from the United States in strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday [December 27,...

Dec 22, 2008: Will It Be More of the Same for the Palestinians in 2009?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Europe & The Middle East , Israel & Palestine , U.S. Middle East Policy
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, writing in the December 18, 2008, edition of Dar Al Hayat opined: Next year needs to be an important year for the Arab-Israeli conflict. Unless we make real progress, the prospect of a two-state solution...

Oct 26, 2008: Dennis Ross: Obama is a Needed 'Transformational Figure'
Comments: 0 | Categories: U.S. Middle East Policy , U.S. Politics
Dennis B. Ross, a veteran U.S. diplomat "who served as the director for policy planning in the U.S. Department of State under President George H. W. Bush and special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton," recently granted an interview...

Oct 22, 2008: Al Jazeera: 'Is Arab Support for Obama Fading?'
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Alaa Bayoumi, Al Jazeera's Middle East analyst, observes in an October 22, 2008, report: It is no secret that many people in the Arab world looked at Barack Obama, the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate, as someone who, if elected president,...

Nov 2, 2007: Are Things 'Coming Unglued' for the U.S. in the Middle East?
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"The signs are everywhere that a new, unpredictable and dangerous phase is beginning in Washington's "war on terror" and the fallout from the invasion of Iraq," contends the Vancouver (Canada) Sun's Jonathan Manthorpe in a November 02, 2007, commentary. "In...