Which is a bummer because I was this close to buying the whole Hope and Change thing: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged world Muslims on Wednesday to join the Palestinian "resistance" against Israel, but his call was dismissed by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. "The only way to ...

This nonsense started during the transition and extended through the inauguration, with Obama snubbing India in favor of Pakistan, Israel in favor of the Palestinians, and the Philippines in favor of Iran. Now the White House seems to be brainstorming new and better ways to snub Britain: the Churchi...

I was a little worried that the Saudis would use their long-time lobbyist Chas Freeman - now comfortably ensconced as NIC - to buy up the Obama administration. Then I read this report from the Center For Security Policy. Turns out that's not really a possibility because the Iranians won't sell it to...

If you're interested in how the vaunted foreign policy community is circling its wagons around professional Israel hater Chas Freeman, you can check out this endorsement in the guise of an article by pro-Freeman partisan Laura Rozen: A source close to Freeman said that among the critics taking shots...

British troops are fighting jihadists with Yorkshire accents: The Armed Forces are increasingly fighting British Muslims with Midlands and Yorkshire accents on the battlefields of Afghanistan. Intelligence reports show that rising numbers of home-grown jihadists have joined the Taliban so they can k...

Obama's cadre of foreign policy experts insist that - no matter how much of a hatefest Durban II becomes - there's never any harm in just talking. That's 100% true. Unless you count undermining British and Italian objections to the bigoted spectacle... Britain and Italy could join Canada and Israel ...

Hey, remember that time in 2005 when Tom Friedman said that a Netanyahu-led Likud would electorally implode? And that a Sharon-led center would evacuate Gaza so the Palestinians could turn it into Dubai? Good times: Why, you ask? Because the Likud under Bibi, and without Ariel Sharon, will be free t...

What the hell? Is there something in the water today? President Obama's ambition to move quickly on Israeli-Palestinian peace suffered a significant setback yesterday with the rightward shift apparent in nearly complete Israeli election results, analysts said. While the centrist Kadima party appeare...

I'm surprised it took them this long to file the story. Maybe Brzezinski has really sloppy handwriting: But there is no question a new dynamic is afoot, one that seems likely to become even more complicated after today's election in Israel is settled. If the government that emerges is even more dete...

Ah Britain. Where high-ranking MPs secretly meet with Hamas but publicly demand the arrest of British-Israeli dual citizens. Where anti-Semitism is so much a part of the air that - just like in the rest of Europe - these kinds of outbursts are more and more routine: A high-ranking diplomat at the Fo...