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Is Israel better off than it was two years ago? The answer is unequivocal -- no. Israel is more isolated in the international community and more threatened from all sides than perhaps ever before.
Why is the West Bank quiet? While the Middle East continues to be in turmoil, this one region maintains an amazing degree of tranquility.
The leaders of Hamas who are now teaching Holocaust denialism in schools should take a leaf from Pope Benedict's book. The truth will help set them free.
That we have spent more on arming Middle Eastern nations than on helping their people learn the art of republican government may well come back to haunt us in the months ahead.
People often ask why, at a time when revolutionary fervor has seized nation after nation here in the Middle East, no revolt has yet begun in my countr...
It is up to Israel to defend Israel. And that means ending the occupation, on terms worked out with the Palestinians, rather than allowing it to end in violence that could cross the border and threaten the survival of Israel itself.
The brutal force used by the government in Iran may succeed this time, but the brewing discontent of the Iranian lower and middle classes will always erupt again.
Whatever their rivalries, the authoritarian leaders of the Middle East did not want to see Hosni Mubarak removed from power. When you are a dictator -...
With all of the unrest sweeping the Middle East, one place long-associated with bullets and bloodshed has so far been remarkably calm: the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Lawrence Davidson says, "Keep your eye on the language: When South Africa assigned rights according to race they called it apartheid. When Israel ass...
The focus on an Israeli settlement freeze should not detract attention from the freeze that Israel does impose -- against Palestinians.
Omar Suleiman's main goal is stability in Egypt, and if he continues to lead the negotiation process, then the current government should manage to retain power over the coming weeks.
We will watch Egypt in the hope that it will lead to genuine democracy. But we cannot forget the existing humanitarian crises that are so often created alongside political change.
There is little doubt the events unfolding in Cairo are reverberating across the region. Gaza, which shares a border with Egypt, has already felt it.
There is grave danger into rushing to elections without having prepared the groundwork for democracy and human rights. The Middle East is a neighborhood where the concept of freedom is not necessarily familiar.
Very few Westerners would praise a murderer and sell him weapons. Very few Westerners would beat up a poor person in order to get cheaper petrol. But our governments do this abroad all the time.
