Image Taken By Israel Defense Force Benjamin Netanyahu’s rather literal interpretation the concept of a “red line” at the United Nations last month puzzled many, but it should draw as much worry as it draws laughter. It is no secret that Israel and the United States would prefer an Iran without nuclear weapons. Yet, the Obama administration’s disapproval of a unilateral Israeli strike and its lack of interest in initiating its own strike leave...
...ult to muster. And indeed, opinion polling, though somewhat scattered, has pointed to a disadvantage for the nationalists. The SNP may cite the need for more time for planning, debate, and organization, calling Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to accelerate the process “oppressive,” but this struggle in the polls that the true motivation behind the SNP’s wait-and-see attitude. Such a plan is far from innocent – it is, in fact, thoroughly unju...
On May 6, the U.K. will hold what David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, described on April 6 as “the most important election in a generation.” Given that this election is likely to either bring about Britain’s first post-election hung parliament since 1974, or the end of the Labour Party’s unprecedented 13 years in power, or, quite possible, both of the above, there is good reason to concur with Cameron’s assessment. Although The Econ...
...Editor Taylor Thompson sat down with Mr. Murphy to discuss the book, the consulate attack in Benghazi, its implications for American counterterrorism policy, and some surprising ties between Libya and the resignation of Gen. David Petraeus as Director of the CIA. Taylor Thompson: Why did you decide to write about the attack in Benghazi? Jack Murphy: A couple of different reasons. I run a website with a friend of mine, a former Navy SEAL named Br...
...Sports, like movies, are extremely popular in all ranks of society. Just like the world learned to love America through Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe, so too will the world learn about Qatar through Paris-Saint Germain and David Beckham. The French, so fearful of being “Qatarized,” must also remember that they owe much of their global influence to their own intense cultural lobbying. Recently, France staged a friendly game with Germany to mark...
...edia are everywhere. Each candidate is mentioned hundreds of thousands of times on Twitter every week. Their thousand watt smiles shine from the sidebars of your favorite website. And “trending articles” on Facebook bring the campaign to basically every college kid’s computer screen. Plus there are always the old faithful negative television spots and political talk show hosts. The proof is in the pudding. If campaigns believed that people didn’t...
...the president and prime minister. They began fighting for the right thing in the wrong way. Relatively noble and understandable intentions soon gave way to the makings of a borderless destabilizing force as the group took up camp in Iraq in 1986 following their exile from Iran. MEK would soon take part in Iraq’s war against Iran, as could’ve been expected given their ideological alignment, and its members were used to tragic effect in suicide at...
...terrorism in the 1930s or Palestinian uprising (Intifada) terrorism in the early 2000s. Both sides, too, have made some bold efforts to achieve peace, in such historic agreements including the Oslo Accords and the second Camp David talks. But for all this symmetry, there is one blatantly asymmetrical element to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This element is a dangerous one, and it was illustrated most recently in last week’s Israel-Hamas war:...
...the region, the United States will uphold its policies of the past three decades so long as it continues offering aid to the Egyptian military and the military respects its peace treaty with Israel. In 1979 following the Camp David Accords, the United States brokered a peace treaty between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. Since then, Egypt’s military has received billions of dollars to maintain the peace. During her visit to Egypt and Israel, Clin...
...lity of “dramatic confrontations” pose a problem for Obama in this respect, especially given the possibility of protests at the highly visible upcoming party conventions or the G8 summit, which has recently been moved to Camp David from the original Chicago. Warren and Gitlin disagreed, however, about the nature and origin of the current Occupy Wall Street movement. Gitlin drew a comparison to the liberal energy felt during the 2008 Obama campaig...
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