Middle East Pundit

Found this on Opinion Journal today…
The Arabs and the Midterms"Arab governments are looking for change in U.S. policy in the Middle East after the midterm elections," the Associated Press reports:
One thing they hope for is that a politically weakened President Bush would talk with Iran and Syria. They also hope he would show greater […]

Israel may use precision guided bombs to destroy weapons smuggling tunnels dug by Palestinians.
And why exactly?  To protect its citizens (both Jew and Arab) through preventing Hamas from obtaining weaponry similar to that used by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
However, al Reuters would make its readership think Israel is getting ready to bomb Egypt and violate its […]

One of the victims of the Hamas government amongst many others is the Palestinian youth. 
Whereas Israel has a large number of the world’s geniuses due to immigration to Israel, the
Christian Science Monitor reports of a desire by Palestinian youth to immigrate elsewhere to flee the crisis of Palestinian governance and to live in a […]

Press Release
U.S. to blame for ALL of Islamic world’s problems
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini calls Palestine number one problem in Islamic world
TEHRAN, IRAN Oct. 24, 2006 -
The Islamic Republic News Agency has quoted the Iranian Supreme Leader saying "Palestine is the number one issue of the world of Islam and the international community today, the Supreme […]

Nancy Pelosi has gone on record saying she does not want to call for the President’s impeachment, however, she does want to make President Bush a lameduck President.  According to Pelosi "making them [President Bush and Vice President Cheney] lameducks is good enough for me." 
Forget we have a war on jihadism, forget we need […]

Since when does a country ensuring its self-defence become the story and not those who are violating international law and seeking to rearm? 
Why does France blame Israel for breaking 1701 when Hezbollah and Lebanon clearly have not fulfilled their obligations?
Lebanon’s Grand Ayatollah, Mohammad Fadlallah has complained that UNIFIL has allowed Israel to fly […]

Last night at Phoenix College, I attended a lecture by
Reza Aslan titled "The Future of Islam: Toward the Islamic Reformation."
Naturally, I went in skeptical, having heard of a call for an Islamic Reformation, but talk of an Islamic Reformation and a reformation in practice are worlds apart.
However,  I came away with a truly different […]

Israel is a "counterfeit and illegitimate regime that cannot survive," according to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad via a report by Breitbart.
Ahmadinejad said the Western powers created Israel to assure their interests in the region.  All of which is blatently false.
Whether Ahmadinejad is actually calling for Israel’s destruction or saying Israel will somehow implode due to its "counterfeit […]

U.S. Senator from Arizona Jon Kyl squared off in a debate with his challenger, Jim Pederson, a former real estate developer and AZ Democratic Party Chairman Jim Pederson in the first of three debates yesterday. 
They have two follow up debates on Wednesday and Friday in Tucson and Flagstaff, respectively. 
Supporters of both Kyl and […]

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit criticized Hamas for their failure to come up with their own solution to their problem of statehood. 
Abul Gheit said: "There is an Arab initiative of
land for peace, which the Palestinian prime minister rejects. So let
him find a solution on his own. I say this with no equivocation."

Hamas continues […]