Middle East Pundit

Both Ayatollah Khatami of Iran and now Hamas’ Ismail Haniyah have said the U.S.’s financial crisis is divine punishment from Allah.
My question to both of them naturally is this - then what does Iran’s and the Palestinian’s economic crisis stem from? Why is the former punishment from Allah and the latter not? […]

Palestinians use Israel’s independence as an opportunity to denounce Israel and the media complies in this false narrative making Israel out to be the bourgeois perpetrator of evil with the Palestinians as helpless victims who had everything taken from them.
The Palestinians have designated this day as “al nakba,” aka, the disaster, which they refer to […]

The NY Time argues the Bush Administration has had a huge policy shift in the Middle East, seeking to facilitate peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, whereas previously the Administration has had a very hands off approach.
The story says,
At President Bush’s first National Security Council meeting in January 2001, he announced that he did […]

Bernard Lewis highlights two very different set of issues for today’s Annapolis summit regarding what he terms “The Jewish Question.”
The first issue involves Israel and physical border disputes with her neighbors - something which can and should be worked on.
However, if the discussion consists of the existence of the state of Israel, then any negotiation […]

Karl Rove was wrong.
Dean Barnett was wrong.
I was wrong.
Not only did the Democrats take over the House, they took the Senate as well. And I accepted it with same quiet dignity that “Frodric Fronkensteen” accepted with his inability to bring his creation to life in the movie Young Frankenstein. For those of you […]

Hugh Hewitt has four reasons why the GOP will retain both the House and the Senate…
“1 - the pollsters consistently underweighted GOP turnout and are scrambling to avoid being Zogbied.
2 - GOP faithful and center-right independents are unhappy with
President Bush and the Congress for a number of reasons (tin-eared
non-responsiveness on the border, spend, and one […]

It’s a good thing Senator Jon Carry (who btw served in Vietnam) serves as a US Senator so he can support funding for grate programs like Huwkt Awn Phawniks because apparently the troops aren’t smart enough to put a koharent sentence together.