Though Woodrow Wilson himself was not always consistent in the pursuit of this goal, his anti-colonial instinct put him at odds with U.S. allies, the British and the French.
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Despite the White House statements indicating that the US will not participate in talks with Syria, reaching an agreement between Israel and Syria will have a dramatically positive ripple effect throughout the Middle East.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Back in May, President Bush traveled to Israel's Knesset to deliver a speech that equated negotiations with modern terror-sponsoring states to World W...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Israel has secretly accomplished more diplomatically in the past few months with its adversaries than anything that Condi Rice could have or would have brokered in years.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
The war in Iraq can dominate media coverage of the Middle East, which may be why some interesting developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict have have ...
AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home
VIENNA, Austria — Syria will allow in U.N. inspectors to probe allegations that a remote building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike was a nuclea...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
President George W. Bush, asked in a press conference why Republicans in the House and Senate are increasingly defying him, proven by the fact that do...
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
When McCain asks what Obama would talk to Ahmadinejad about, he is revealing not only a total misunderstanding of diplomacy, but an opposition to a deal that keeps Iran non-nuclear.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
Last month, a lot was made in the media about Israel's mysterious air raid in Northern Syria on Sept 6, 2007 when the news broke that the CIA has conf...
McClatchy | Dion Nissenbaum | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
After eight years of stalemate and periodic tension, Israel and Syria announced Wednesday that they have launched "serious and continuous" indirect pe...
AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
JERUSALEM — Israel and Syria unexpectedly announced Wednesday the resumption of peace talks after an eight-year break, saying they have been spe...
Hooman Majd | Posted 05.10.2008 | Politics
If there were ever a perfect example of the Bush administration's utterly bankrupt foreign policy, it would have to be the State Department's reaction to events in Beirut over the last few days.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
Today, gun battles have erupted in Beirut following a speech by Hezbollah's Secretary General. Has Lebanon become the new battlefield for Saudi Arabia and Iran, or is it edging closer towards civil war?
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
Israel deserves and has earned America's continued support, but here again, it, too, must take into account broader American concerns about the future of a stable Middle East.
Charlie Rose | Posted 05.02.2008 | Media
Zakaria argues that America's power will wane as the global economy continues to rapidly grow.
Charlie Rose | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
Negroponte speaks about the search for Osama bin Laden and Israel's attack on a suspected nuclear facility in Syria.
LA Times | Borzou Daragahi | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
Professor William Beeman at the University of Minnesota passed along a note today from "a colleague with a U.S. security clearance" about the mysterio...
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
Jimmy Carter has a simple idea: you can only make peace when you talk to your enemies. Our current policy makes it unlikely that groups like Hamas might moderate their policies
Daniel Levy | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
Yesterday could not have presented a more stunning portrayal of the self-marginalization of America as an actor in Israeli-Arab conflict resolution under the Bush administration.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
Who do you believe? The Bush administration's statements on Syria's nuclear capabilities, or Syria's ambassador?
Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
Syria claims that Israel has made an offer to withdraw from the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal with Damascus. This is particularly intriguing.
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
So is it going to be me and Sy Hersh against the Cheney machine? I'm not about to sit around quietly while this administration fabricates reasons for a war with Syria.
Steve Clemons | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there.
AP | PAMELA HESS and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 04.24.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that North Korea's secret work on a nuclear reactor with Syria was "a dangerous and potentially desta...
Dylan Loewe | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
Obama's reasoned approach to the Middle East will mean more stability, more accountability, and a policy agenda that will help shield Israel from the brink.
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James Zogby | Posted 07.11.2008 | Home