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Turkey Is Now The Key To Arab Politics. Beware: Built Up By Obama, Erdogan Is Playing The Wild Card
From the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Executive Director Robert Satloff comes this analysis: The Gaza Flotilla Incident: Impact on Three Key Arab Actors READ MORE >>
Better A Bad Press Than A Good Epitaph
Actually, the hysteria about the Israeli encounter with the Turkish goons has abated. And it has probably come to the attention of some reasonable people that Recep Tayyip Erdogan is working the seas not exactly for the interests of the Turks but for the Islamic crusade being led by the Iranian clerisy and secret police. READ MORE >>
Look, I wish the Israeli raid on the so-called “Freedom Flotilla” had ended differently. Why, I ask, didn’t Israel’s navy disable the engine of the Mavi Marmara and drag the ship into port? Who knows? The engines of the other boats were apparently disabled—or so reliable sources say. READ MORE >>
A seven-member United Nations panel—yes, even a U.N. panel—without stammer and without dodging yesterday accused North Korea of providing banned nuclear and ballistic missile technology to Iran and Syria. READ MORE >>
Beinart Finale
Peter Beinart replies, or purports to reply, one more time: READ MORE >>
Family Business
The dispatch is from Reuters. And the dateline is Wonderland. Flush with success in turning Iran away from nukes and Syria away from Tehran, the administration seems to be setting its sights on turning Hezbollah away from Hezbollah. READ MORE >>
Right-Wing Beauty Pageant Conspiracists Strike Back
Conservatives continue to seethe over the Miss USA triumph of Lebanese-American Rima Fakih: READ MORE >>
More On Syria, If You Can Stand It
This is real inside stuff. No commentary from me. Except to say that this is more proof that American diplomacy is going nowhere. Or maybe worse. Internal report on Syria says embassy lacks clear guidance on sanctions Posted By Josh Rogin Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 12:55 PM READ MORE >>
This is Defense Secretary Robert Gates talking, and he is telling the stark truth to Ehud Barak, Israel’s minister of defense, who presumably already knows. READ MORE >>