Foreign Policy – Page 3 – Mark Silverberg

Targeting Terrorists

March 18, 2012March 13, 2014 Mark Silverberg 0 Comments cycle of violence, double standards, Gaza, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Israel, moral equivalence, terrorists

In March, a strike by the Israel Defense Forces targeted arch-terrorist Zuhair al-Qaisi as he was planning to launch another

The Point of No Return

February 11, 2012March 13, 2014 Mark Silverberg 0 Comments caliphate, Fordo, Iran, Israel, Natanz, Netanyahu, Nuclear Bomb, Obama, Parchine, pre-emptive strike, red line, uranium enrichment

Debkafile recently disclosed that it was Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not the Obama administration, who decided to postpone the largest

The Trauma of the Shalit Exchange

October 15, 2011March 13, 2014 Mark Silverberg 0 Comments Captivity, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, Israel, kidnapping, Netanyahu, Noam Shalit, terrorists, Trauma

Much has been written of the Israeli moral commitment not to leave a wounded or dead soldier in the field,

Arab Spring Democratization Efforts Foreign Policy

Nicholas Kristof’s J-Street Problem

September 2, 2011March 13, 2014 Mark Silverberg 0 Comments Anti-Israel, Anti-Zionism, Delusions, Israel, J-Street, Jewish, Middle East, Nicholas Kristof, UN

Nicholas Kristof, in his column “Seeking Balance in the Middle East” suggests that Congressional opposition to the forthcoming UN vote

A Palestinian State – The Day After

August 8, 2011March 13, 2014 Mark Silverberg 0 Comments Arab League, Day After, Egypt, General Assembly, Israel, Jordan, PA, Palestinian State, UNGA

On Thursday, August 4th, Arab League foreign ministers and representatives from Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Lebanon and Qatar announced

Foreign Policy Muslim Brotherhood

Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood

June 10, 2011March 13, 2014 Mark Silverberg 0 Comments bin Laden, Islam, Middle East, Muslim, President Obama, sharia, Wall Street Journal

President Barack Obama appears to be preparing a new outreach effort that will ask the Muslim world to reject Islamic

Arab Spring Democratization Efforts Foreign Policy

Revolution in Tunisia – What Next?

February 17, 2011March 13, 2014 Mark Silverberg 0 Comments Arab world, Maghreb, Middle East, Muslim, Revolution, Tunisia, Uprising

Poverty alone does not cause revolutions. They are caused by thousands of accumulated injustices that, in their totality, push a

Foreign Policy Perceptions on War and Defeat

Power and the Perception of Weakness

December 4, 2010March 13, 2014 Mark Silverberg 0 Comments Appeasement, Arab, bin Laden, Iran, Middle East, Mulsim, War on Terror, Western World

Nowhere is power (or the lack thereof) more clearly understood than in Middle Eastern culture. Coming from a Western perspective,

Clueless About Gaza

July 23, 2010March 13, 2014 Mark Silverberg 0 Comments CENTCOM, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Missiles, Obama, Tel Aviv

The U.S. debt will top $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015, according to

Israel to Obama: ”It’s Not Your Name But What You Do That Matters To Us”

July 19, 2010March 13, 2014 Mark Silverberg 0 Comments Arab, Hussein, Israel, Muslim, Name, Obama, President

In mid-July, the President gave his first interview with Israel’s Channel 2 news, and he was asked to explain why