Thomas Friedman talking to his taxi driver in Jenin:Tom: What do you think of my ideas on how to achieve a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict? Driver: I think you're an idiot. Are you going to quote me in your column? Tom: Not this time.And yet somehow it's hard to avoid the simple wisdom o...

Joe emails: Obama has named a friggen dinosaur to be middle east envoy. George Mitchell is older than John McCain and probably has one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel. He is part Arab, which gets him some street cred in the arab capitals, but what is of much more significance to those...

As the conflict grinds on relentlessly the world will look to America's new president says Simon Scott Plummer....

Who knew that Hillary Clinton was the great kosherizer? During a Dec. 8 visit by a delegation from the New York State Assembly to Israel—one of the few places on earth that wasn’t pulling for Barack Obama to win the presidential election—Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was asked what he thought of ...

Caroline Glick writes:   Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza was presented to the world as a strategic bid to enhance prospects for peace between the Palestinians and Israel. Proponents of the move argued that removing all Israeli civilians and military personnel from Gaza would take away ...

It's hard to believe that for over two years, Ariel Sharon, the once-bulldozer has been hospitalized in an undignified, helpless vegetative state. Before then, he was one of those people you either hated or loved or both, but you could never be neutral. The neighborhood I live in was his "inspiratio...

Appearing at an Israeli Embassy reception last Thursday to mark the 60th anniversary of the Jewish state, Vice President Cheney voiced a sentiment that is common among many American Jews, evangelicals and others. "Israel has never had a better friend in the White House than the 43rd president of the...

The "Israelization" of U.S. Military Doctrine and Tactics How the U.S. is Reproducing Israel's Flawed Occupation Strategies in Iraq The New Walls of Baghdad By Steve Niva | April 21, 2008 Editor: Erik Leaver Foreign Policy In Focus http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5162 The new "surge" strategy in Iraq, l...

It's the most feared and reviled intellectual movement in American history. And the misconceptions abound....

So there are riots and arsons and deaths because of the very cartoons I posted in my last entry.  Now the following cartoons are some that have run (or are soon to be run) in the Arab and other Muslim/Muhammadan media.  Honestly, tell me if they are on any high ground against the Danes. &n...