Outside the Beltway

Open mouth, insert foot.

Could economic chaos bring Egyptians back out into the streets?

JR is from Texas wants you to know that Texas is big. No, bigger than that.

Middle East peace talks are apparently in such bad shape that the U.S. is thinking of releasing Jonathan Pollard as an incentive to Israel.

Barack Obama is no Jimmy Carter.

After eight years in a coma, Ariel Sharon has passed away.

Some questions that the Administration needs to answer before attacking Syria.

Secretary of State Kerry becomes the latest American official to wade into the Middle East’s longest lasting quagmire.

The events of the last week in Egypt raise a whole host of questions.

Signs and portents in the Middle East.

The smear campaign against defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has taken a bizarre turn.

The Many Happy Returns Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

They are playing the game without rules in Egypt.

The son of a former Israeli Prime Minister proposes an utterly insane idea.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas appears to be heading in one unfortunate direction.

Thirty four years later, Egyptians are hinting they want to make changes to the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab nation.

For the fourth day, American and other embassies became the focus of mass protests in many Muslim nations.

Romney’s foreign tour didn’t go quite as well as planned, but it’s unclear how much the minor gaffes will actually matter.

The Secretary of State is ignoring a hold by the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman.

Mitt Romney’s view of the ideal relationship between the United States and Israel is, at the very least. quite odd, and, potentially, dangerous.

We, as a country, need to remember that do not hold levers that allow us to move events this way or that

Rick Santorum has some bizarre views when it comes to the dispute between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

Newt Gingrich’s comments about Palestinian nationhood came up during last night’s debate.

Once again, Newt Gingrich speaks without thinking.

Just a reminder: Turkey is a NATO ally.

We may have entered a new and dangerous phase of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Rick Perry’s speech criticizing the President’s policies in the Middle East raised more questions than it answered.

Foolishly, the Palestinians are going forward with their effort to get Palestinian statehood recognized by the United Nations.

I get the impression that a lot of people don’t even know what “the 1967 borders” are or why they tend to be considered the logical point of departure for any type of peace negotiations.

The free world rallied around the United States after the 9/11 attacks–but not all back the killing of the man who ordered it.

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

Once again, an American President is stepping into the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and, once again, he has no idea how to accomplish the goals he’s established.

Bill Kristol and friends are trying to make it politically toxic to criticize Israel.