U.S. President Barack Obama’s letter to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (april 20, 2010)… Continue reading
In an April 22 roundtable at Chatham House on Turkey’s recent elections, Kurdish political leader Ahmet Türk gave prepared remarks and took… Continue reading
Jerusalem Post reported today that the United States vetoed a UN resolution Friday that would have condemned Israeli “illegal” settlements beyond… Continue reading
Cairo’s approval Friday, Feb. 18 for two Iranian warships to transit the Suez Canal on their way to the Mediterranean has brought Israel and Iran… Continue reading
Let history show that neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post reported on the return of the world’s single most important Islamic cleric to Cairo… Continue reading
This is not a game. This is the fate of the globe. This involves the lives of tens of millions of people. Partisanship and scoring political points is irrelevant… Continue reading
During an hour-long meeting on February 17 [2009], Gamal Mubarak discussed with Senator Joseph Lieberman the problems with Gaza and Palestinian reconciliation… Continue reading
U.S.- Egypt military relationship is strong, but should change to reflect new regional and transnational threats… Continue reading
Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu made his first official comments on the situation in Egypt during the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday… Continue reading
There is no good policy for the United States regarding the uprising in Egypt but the Obama Administration may be adopting something close to the worst option… Continue reading
Will the Muslim Brotherhood come to power in Egypt and thus change the balance in the Middle East in favor of the Islamists… Continue reading
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has sent his defense minister Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi to Washington with an urgent request for US backing for his embattled… Continue reading
In conversations with foreign ministry officials in Brunei, US diplomats hear what their counterparts believe was behind the capture of 15 British servicemen and women by Iran earlier in the month. The Brunei officials say they think… Continue reading
Turkish foreign policy was more visible in 2010 than ever before. If one is optimistic, one can hazard that we will see a “regression toward the mean” in Turkey’s relations with the West. If 2010 was generally a bad year for that relationship, the situation… Continue reading
U.S. power still matters in Turkey, and the revelation that the AKP does not enjoy universal American support is unwelcome news for the ruling party. The perception that it enjoyed full U.S. support was instrumental in the… Continue reading
What is the highest priority for Iranian foreign policy–I mean the official and public foreign policy, not spreading revolution and terrorism–today? According to the new foreign minister it’s developing strong relations with… Continue reading
Tijdens een ontmoeting tussen de Egyptische ambassadeur voor de Verenigde Naties, Maged Abdelaziz, en de Amerikaanse onderhandelaar over nucleaire wapenbeheersing, Rose Gottemoeller, op 7 Mei 2009 vertelde Abdelaziz dat Egypte via de zwarte markt nucleaire… Lees verder
Uit documenten die teruggaan tot 2004 blijkt dat de Amerikaanse ambassade in Den Haag het beladen debat rondom de aanschaf van de Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) nauwgezet volgde. De JSF zijn de beoogde vervangers van de F-16 straaljagers en worden… Lees verder
It’s pretty remarkable that only after two years has the Obama Administration perhaps begun to get the first point: peace is not in the cards. One might also hope that it won’t take ten years to understand that the reason for this… Continue reading
De president van Jemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, maakte in het geheim afspraken met de Amerikaanse regering om Amerikaanse troepen onbeperkte toegang tot Jemens grondgebied te geven voor het uitvoeren van militaire operaties tegen terroristische doelen van Al Qaida… Lees verder
In quiet contacts, French President Nicolas Sarkozy warns that North Korea is using its crisis with the South to cover up its planned transfer to Iran of nuclear weapons systems parts and extra-fast centrifuges for uranium enrichment that could help Tehran go into bomb production in… Continue reading
De recent gelekte geheime memo’s van Amerikaanse Ambassades in het Midden Oosten geven ons een duidelijk beeld van de politieke realiteit en de krachtsverhoudingen in het Midden Oosten. Er komen enkele steeds terugkerende elementen naar voren uit… Lees verder
Volgens verschillende Amerikaanse documenten, die op de WikiLeaks website gelekt zijn, hebben meerdere Arabische Staten net als Israel er bij de Amerikanen op aangedrongen om het Iraanse nucleaire programma met militaire middelen te stoppen… Lees verder
Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has probably done more harm to Israel than any other Irish citizen. She was United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002 and was the architect of the Durban I anti-racism conference in 2001. Last year… Continue reading
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be very happy with such a “nuclear” friend in North Korea… Continue reading
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THE CLUELESSNESS OF CLAIMING THAT OBAMA'S MIDDLE EAST POLICIES WERE A FAILURE CANNOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH, WHAT THE...
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