Outside the Beltway

Hopes for a temporary respite in the Gaza conflict faded away today.

The First World War played an intriguing role in the birth of the radical Islam we are dealing with today.

Open mouth, insert foot.

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.

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

While I concur with the “intent, justice, legality, and morality” of the decision, I nonetheless oppose it.

Relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia seem to have soured in recent years.

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

Some thoughts on a decade old video in which Samantha Power speculates on actions to take against an unfolding genocide.

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

An American fighting with Syrian rebels faces life in prison for firing an RPG against a government we’re trying to oust.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

Another platform controversy?

A nine month Al Jazeera investigations indicates that poison may have played a role in Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death.

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

Rick Santorum’s foreign policy positions are troubling in many respects.

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

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

Once again, Newt Gingrich speaks without thinking.

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

Political journalists are asking clumsy, ignorant, and intolerant questions. Film at 11.

The United States is pressuring the Netanyahu government to move off its hard line.

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

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 US-Israeli relationship is not one of equals.

President Obama doubled down in his speech before this year’s AIPAC conference. Why he did so only he understands.

Once again, an American President thinks he can bring peace to the Middle East.

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum thinks we’ve been too hard on the Crusaders.

Israelis and Palestinians don’t agree on much these days, but they do agree that Barack Obama hasn’t helped the peace process at all since coming to office.

Will Israel attack Iran ? You’d better hope not.

Steve Emerson has reportedly found 13 hours of tape of Cordoba Initiative chairman Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and found him to be a “radical extremist cleric who cloaks himself in sheep’s clothing.” Does it matter?

Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column demonstrates an appalling misunderstanding of history in the context of immigration.