Jon Stewart and Middle East Resistance – Two Sides of the Same Coin
What do US comedian Jon Stewart and Hamas Chief Khaled Meshaal have in common? What does Stewart have in common Continue reading
Khaled Meshaal Interview: A Hamas Take on Mideast Geopolitics (Part 2)
This is the second installment of a two-part series. Read the first installment here. Palestinian resistance group Hamas has beaten Continue reading
A Candid Conversation With The Arab League’s Amr Moussa – Peace Talks, One-State, Hezbollah, Iran and…”Foreign Fingers”
I met with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa at his elegant quarters in the heart of Cairo last week 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
98% of US Jews Won’t Cast Votes Based on Iran Issue
Ninety-eight percent of American Jews do not rank Iran as a major factor influencing their vote in the 2010 midterm 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
Mideast “Proximity Talks” – The Theater of the Absurd
by Sharmine Narwani After a year of grandiose declarations on Mideast peace prospects and a gazillion trips to the region Continue reading
Mideast Shuffle 