Middle East – Mark Silverberg

Saturday, December 14, 2024

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America’s Middle East Delusions

When Samuel Huntington wrote his 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, many in the

The long-awaited results of the Bulgarian investigation into the Burgas terrorist bombing last July 18th has placed enormous pressure on

With all the talk of revolutions, the Middle East continues to slip backwards. We see mobs burning buildings, uprisings, coups,

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

In November 2003 (and on many occasions since then), Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar set out the reality under which Israel

It is now clear why Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority have refused negotiations with Israel for more than a

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

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

In 1945, after the liberation of France, it would have been unthinkable for the Allies to have stopped at the

According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, National Security Advisor General Jim Jones was quoted in a classified foreign ministry cable