« Previous  |  Next »

Mideast Meltdown

The latest desperate attempt to prop up a troubled Palestinian leader is losing steam quickly, leaving a dangerous void in the West Bank and Gaza that could alter President Obama's future policies, including on Iran. Palestinian Authority President ...

From BENNY AVNI, New York Post,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  European Union,  Palestinian Authority,  Mahmoud Abbas,  Hamas

Bam's Mideast Course Correction

President Obama's belief that his mere presence could usher in an era of Arab-Israeli peace has finally been mugged by reality. From the start, the administration tried to shift from America's natural pro-Israel stance to a more "balanced" position, as ...

From BENNY AVNI, New York Post,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Benjamin Netanyahu,  Palestinian Authority,  Mahmoud Abbas,  Hezbollah

Bam’s Wise U-Turn

The Obama administration flip-flopped on two foreign- policy issues over the last few days — and that’s a good thing. Let the Arab world and its sympathizers accuse Obama of reneging on promises to give them the gift of a freeze of Israeli settlement ...

From BENNY AVNI, New York Post,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  US State Department,  Manuel Zelaya,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

Sarko Stepping In for Weakling Bam

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy smells a leader ship gap. President Obama is up to his neck in a nagging economic crisis and is leading a revolution on health care; the only foreign-policy issue he has time for (if even that) is Afghanistan. So, it's ...

From BENNY AVNI, New York Post,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Jack Lang,  U N Security Council,  European Union,  Nicolas Sarkozy

O's lame indecision

IN recent months, the Obama administration has been agonizing over how to deal with Sudan's genocidal government, trying to choose between soft diplomatic engagement and a hard set of punitive measures. On Monday, after months of deliberations, we ...

From BENNY AVNI, New York Post,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Palestinian Authority,  United Nations,  Susan E. Rice,  US State Department

Turkey's Turnabout

Turkey this week broke sig nificantly with Israel and the West -- a strong sign that President Obama's outreach to the Muslim world is achieving nothing. On Monday, NATO scrapped "Anatolian Eagle," a regularly scheduled military exercise with various ...

From BENNY AVNI, New York Post,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NATO,  Barack Obama,  Recep Tayyip Erdogan,  European Union

'Saving' Democracy

Tthanks to his administration's bungling on Hondu ras, President Obama may wind up in the absurd position of opposing a free, fair and fully constitutional election in the name of defending democracy. The State Department is now engaged in a ...

From BENNY AVNY, New York Post,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  US State Department,  United Nations,  Organization of American States,  Hugo Chávez

UN hit backfires

The UN's Goldstone report -- a ginned-up pastiche of baseless charges of war crimes by Israeli soldiers in last winter's Gaza campaign -- may wind up significantly weakening Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Not exactly the target that ...

From BENNY AVNI, New York Post,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hamas,  U N Security Council,  Barack Obama,  Palestinian Authority,  Mahmoud Abbas

Bam's indecision carries huge risk

One clear difference emerged between Iran and America yesterday as they launched a much-hyped “engagement” session in Geneva: The Iranians were very clear about where they want to go (and where they won’t go), while the Americans were vague. President ...

From BENNY AVNI, New York Post,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  United Nations,  US State Department,  William Burns (politician),  Saeed Jalili

No More 'Kumbaya'

AFTER a dreamy week in which President Obama presided over an endless chain of "Kumbaya" moments at the United Nations, yesterday was wakeup time on Iran. Talking in Pittsburgh, where he was flanked by his French and British counterparts (but not the ...

From BENNY AVNI, New York Post,  26 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  International Atomic Energy Agency,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  United Nations,  Susan E. Rice

« Previous  |  Next »

Who is This?

Help us add to our database, by linking this writer their entry in Wikipedia or Source Watch, or by suggesting that we remove it from our index.

Suggest an Entry