US Out of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Palestinians Honor Holocaust Victims
RAMALLAH - On a cool and overcast day, a procession of grim-faced people filed silently past pictures of heaps of skeletons piled high, of emaciated survivors with blank stares corralled behind barbed wire, barely clinging to life. The memorial and museum...
Implementing Af-Pak Strategy Is the Hard Part
With the strategic review for U.S. goals in Afghanistan and Pakistan now complete, the administration of President Barack Obama must shift to the more difficult task of choosing and – even more daunting – implementing policies that seek to quell the militant...
Gingrich Goes Ballistic
Colin Powell: No Good Samaritan
Watching retired Gen. Colin Powell cite Jesus' parable of the Good Samaritan during Sunday's Memorial Day ceremonies on the Mall in Washington, it struck me that Powell was giving hypocrisy a bad name. Those familiar with the parable of the Good Samaritan and the...
Abbas Visit Comes as US-Israeli Tensions Mount
U.S. President Barack Obama's first meeting on Thursday with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas was less remarkable for the actual talks between the two leaders than it was for the changed Washington political climate in which it took place. The...