Middle East Pundit

The Palestinians cannot form a unity government because they refuse to recognize Israel.
The International community has made this one of their conditions and Hamas will not give in.
And who’s the intransigent one?

Abu Mazen says Israeli roadblocks have caused the failure of Palestinian industry…that if only Israel removed the roadblocks, the Palestinians could become financially independent and grow their private sector.
What he fails to take into account is whenever Israel has removed the roadblocks, suicide and car bombings have increased exponentially.
If Abu Mazen […]

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 […]

Everyone’s witnessed the spectacle that goes by the name Jimmy Carter these past few weeks. Perhaps in an attempt to redeem his very public and very disastrous track record in the Middle East during his brief tenure in office, Carter has decided to meet with Hamas and Syria, much to the protest of the […]

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 […]

Anybody and I mean anybody who doesn’t think the surge is working or that we as Americans are not making progress in Iraq needs to read this post by Michael Yon (scroll to the bottom).
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen any fighting. I can’t remember my last shootout: it’s been months. The nightmare […]

If Israel made peace with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors would the Middle East experience a golden age of peace without precedent in which all current conflicts between various states with no ties or interests in Israel suddenly dissipate? The smart guys who wrote the Iraq Study Group (ISG) and Kofi Annon seem to […]