If Netanyahu Lies, Why Do We Keep Listening?

By Sharmine Narwani For Middle East watchers, the revelation that a major head of state called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Continue reading →

Hillary Dusts off Iranian Bogeyman…Again

By Sharmine Narwani US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems to have a tough time grasping what kids on the Continue reading →

Washington’s Valentine’s Day Faux Pas in the Middle East

Valentine’s Day, and not a whole lot of love in the Middle East, as clashes between government forces and protestors Continue reading →

Getting in Line for a Revolution

What is interesting about the tsunami of change sweeping through the Middle East this past month is that the “dumb, Continue reading →

The New Middle East Narrative — Is Washington in or Out?

Picking up a copy of the English-language Daily Star in Beirut this summer, I was struck by the lead story. Continue reading →

Chas Freeman Lets Rip on Israel as a Strategic Liability

In what was touted right here on the Huffington Post as “one of the few genuine debates on Israel-Middle East Continue reading →

Washington Just Lost the Middle East in a Big Way

It’s official. There is no longer any serious “cost” for defying the United States in the global arena. Unable to Continue reading →

Thomas Friedman and His Mideast Blindspots

Nothing annoys me more about New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman than his tendency to scuttle his occasionally insightful commentary Continue reading →