Israeli US Ambassador Oren has recently, correctly, and urgently warned that Israel has “to prepare for the possibility that they (the Palestinians) will take that step. We can’t discount it.” The “step” Ambassador Oren is referring to is the upcoming State of Palestine legal attack on the State of Israel at either the International Criminal
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 193, This Perspectives Paper is based upon a presentation given at a Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies conference on November 21, 2012. The new Obama administration is facing some tough choices on how to approach its Middle East foreign policy in the coming four years. Many are quick to
Arab Spring is not the governments that follow the fall of the regimes. It is rather the Arab youth who started the revolution, and adopted and protected its big project. Our spring is that youth who are tired of corruption and tyranny states, and the states dominated by individuals or a family. It is the
It has only taken two weeks for 22 of the top 25 leading democratic nations listed in the Democracy Index 2011 to fall into abject diplomatic disarray. Their acute discomfort follows the rush by 17 of them to vote to admit Palestine as a non-observer state at the UN General Assembly on November 29
The leniency with which the European Union (EU) judges Palestinians’ reforms compared to the strictness of EU demands for reform by the Turks reveal Europeans’ duplicity and lack of integrity, and should disqualify the European Union from playing any significant role in the Middle East peace process, under the guise of being an honest broker.
To the West, the Egyptian government led by the Muslim Brotherhood preaches commitment to the peace treaty with Israel. To Egyptians, the Brotherhood has made no secret of its desire to cancel it and lobbies for a military presence in Sinai. Although the Muslim Brotherhood has not changed its hostile position towards Israel, it
At the United Nations we are witnessing the creation ex nihilo of a foreign country, which never existed, for a people calling themselves the “Palestinians”, and an attempt at giving them the land whose memory kept the Jews together as a people and brought them back to Jerusalem after the Holocaust. The Western community
In January 2011. when the Egyptians in Tahrir Square (“Martyr’s Square”) were violently rampaging against a long-time US ally, President Obama threatened Mubarak by stating “Don’t use violence on your people” and “The transition must begin now!” And, he said Mubarak must “use restraint.” Yesterday, several Egyptians were killed while protesting the “ratification” of
President Morsi’s leadership is analogous to the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, at least in the eyes of his opposition figure ElBaradei. He meant it as an insult to Mr. Morsi in light of the Presidents greed for power. Truthfully, it is an insult to world history but no worse than claiming Mr. Morsi is a
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan appears to have lost his mojo as the special Muslim “Mentor” of US President Obama. Turkey was on President Obama’s first foreign trip and first foreign “Yes I can” speech to a Muslim nation, even before Obama’s “New Beginning” Cairo speech. At first, Obama and Erdogan would huddle so
