As a Jewish security-essayist who for 18 months has vigorously argued for US lethal support for the Syrian Rebels, I say AIPAC is courting disaster in actively lobbying for the Congressional resolution for a US Syria attack. What's worse, I believe AIPAC is writing Israel's death warrant. At the outset, I want to make
Lebanon is worried that Christians in Syria will be persecuted in the wake of the takeover of a Christian village near Damascus by Syrian rebels. The conquest of the village of Ma'alula, north of Damascus, by rebel group associated with Al Qaeda, endangers a hundreds of years old community and threatens them with decimation,
Obama may be starting a process whose end result will be out of control. As a U.S. military strike in Syria looms, three high-profile commentators warn that it may lead to “the next World War.” They include syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Dr. Charles Krauthammer, Fox News host Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck
As US President Barack Obama attempts to rally support in Congress for a strike on Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry is waging a diplomatic offensive with the same objective. Kerry held talks with Arab League ministers in Paris on Sunday, in which Syria was the main topic. Kerry said afterward that the sides
Human rights organization, Voice of the Copts, requests Western leaders to publicly denounce the assassination attempt on Egypt’s Internal Minister, Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim, this past Thursday in Cairo. Condemnation of this act of terrorism against the Egyptian state would demonstrate solidarity with the Egyptian interim government and the Egyptian people’s struggle for democracy and
The latest “Israeli animal spy”, a stork that was detained by Egyptian police last week on suspicion of spying, has been killed and eaten, The Guardian reports. Police detained the stork after a man saw a tag on it and caught it, suspecting it was a spying device. The bird was spotted by
White House efforts to convince the U.S. Congress to back military action against Syria are not only failing, they seem to be stiffening the opposition. That was the assessment on Sunday, not of an opponent but of an early and ardent Republican supporter of Obama's plan for attacking Syria, the influential Republican chairman of
Any vote by Congress for unilateral action would be fraught with difficulty and possibly invite retaliation on a massive scale. President Obama has tripped over his own red line - leaving the prestige and authority of his Office and America's reputation in tatters. The President's statement last year on the possible use of chemical
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed on Sunday the claims by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad that there is no evidence he used chemical weapons against his own people. Asked by reporters to comment on Assad’s denial in a television interview, Kerry said "the evidence speaks for itself." Kerry made the remark in
An al-Qaeda-linked group based in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula claimed responsibility for a failed assassination attempt that targeted the country’s interior minister last week, a statement on militant Islamist forums said. “God has allowed your brothers in Ansar Beit al-Maqdis [the Sinai-based group] to shatter the security organization of the murderer Mohammed Ibrahim through
