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Read Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks at the AIPAC Policy Conference 2011 here… Continue reading
Palestinian Authority “president” Mahmoud Abbas is retiring and has called on Fatah to choose a replacement… Continue reading
Prediction: In September, President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy blows up in his (and our) face(s)… Continue reading
I expected President Barack Obama’s AIPAC speech would be a bunch of feel-good clichés to persuade the audience that he is… Continue reading
Speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Sunday morning, U.S. president Barack Obama said… Continue reading
A lot of people may think that I’m too tough on President Barack Obama and the New York Times. Yet every day they do something that… Continue reading
Only twenty percent of Obama’s Middle East speech dealt with Israel-Palestinian issues and that only at the end. Clearly, this was… Continue reading
A day after President Obama’s speech on the Middle East and North Africa, where he spoke on the changes sweeping the region… Continue reading
There is a small detail at the end of Obama’s big Middle East speech that everyone has overlooked up until now but which shows how… Continue reading
President Barack Obama’s big Middle East speech is extraordinarily important. I think that it has been largely misinterpreted… Continue reading
Before we get into what the speech means for Israel, it is important to consider what it means for America… Continue reading
A day before their scheduled meeting in Washington, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama staked out… Continue reading
Official release of President Obama’s Middle East and North Africa speech… Continue reading
President Obama’s latest paean to what he calls “the Muslim world,” delivered at the State Department today, was an exercise in whistling past the… Continue reading
U.S. President Barack Obama’s declaration in his policy speech Thursday, May 19, that Israel should withdraw to the 1967 lines… Continue reading
Recently, it was revealed that President Barack Obama had consulted Tom Friedman in formulating his Middle East policy… Continue reading
I don’t want to speculate about President Barack Obama’s Middle East speech. I’ll wait to hear it. But the… Continue reading
On Thursday, President Obama will “reach out” yet again to what he insists on calling “the Muslim world.” Think of it as… Continue reading
There’s an interesting point about pre-World War One Europe that applies very well to today’s international situation as well… Continue reading
Save this note. Last year I predicted that Egypt’s instability might well be the big story of 2011. Why wait until December… Continue reading
Perhaps the most important policymaking development of the last month has been President Barack Obama’s increasingly visible loss of… Continue reading
I’m not saying this lightly. For the first time, there is serious evidence not only for an Islamist-controlled parliament but even… Continue reading
There’s something particularly poignant about news that at least 80 people were killed in Charsadda, Pakistan, by a Taliban attack on a… Continue reading
On Wednesday, a bipartisan group of members of Congress spearheaded by Reps. Steve Israel (D — NY) and Tom Cole (R — OK) has written a letter to Turkish… Continue reading
I don’t have to write anything to make fun of current U.S. Middle East policy. All I have to do is quote administration officials… Continue reading
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A Chronological Collection of Historical Documents Relating to the Arab-Israeli Conflict...
- McMahon-Husayn Correspondence (1915-1916)
- The Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
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- Agreement Between Emir Faisal Husseini and Dr. Weizmann (1919)
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- British White Paper of June 1922
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- The Peel Commission report (July 1937)
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- Letter from President Roosevelt to King Ibn Saud (April 5, 1945)
- The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (May 14, 1948)
- United States Recognition of the State of Israel (1948)
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