Israel

I turned off the TV feeling that I finally understood Obama, the man.

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The whole campaign, Romney has used Israel as a cudgel against Obama. At the third debate, it was the reverse.

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Dan Senor is a glorified flack. So why is he in serious discussion for a foreign policy job in a Romney administration?

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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks tough when it comes to Syria -- and Turkish liberals are pushing back.

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It has been said that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu could have an effect on the U.S. elections. But the reverse is true as well.

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My Debate Prep Regimen

You've read about how the candidates and moderators prepare for the debates. No less rigorous is my regimen to prepare for watching them on the tube.

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Hezbollah's journey from militant resistance movement to flailing establishment power center.

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When the media reported last week that President Obama had turned down a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu—which was followed, according to the New York Times, by a reverse-snub when Bibi insisted that he hadn’t also been denied a meeting in Washington, because he never even wanted one in the first place—it was only the latest uncomfortable chapter in the two leaders’ cringing pseudo-courtship. For four years, their encounters have been playing out with all the grace of a star-crossed, seventh-grade romance.

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Swimming in the Sea of Galilee is not scandalous or sacrilegious. It's refreshing.

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All it had to be was one more slip-up; one more gaffe with which Mitt Romney could have further flooded the gaffe market, further devaluing all the others. That would be the logical plan, and it seemed to be the one his campaign was following after it was reported that Romney had attributed the massive difference between Israelis’ and Palestinians’ per capita GDP to “culture” (and “the hand of providence”) while speaking to Jewish donors in Jerusalem Monday morning.

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