In his column in today's New York Times, David Brooks argues that Barack Obama's speech in Berlin extolling unity and hope offered nothing more than "Disney" because it did not address "hard realities."

In fact, it is Brooks who cannot understand the hard reality -- that after eight years...

Not surprisingly, in Western media the recent Palestinian-on-Palestinian fighting in Gaza and the West Bank is usually discussed in terms of what's best for the U.S. and Israel. And usually in simple terms: Gaza as a bastion of the radical Hamas party, which must be isolated and punished, and the...