With a culture that brainwashes kids and pushes instant solutions to longstanding disputes, is it any wonder that the Arab world seems woefully unequipped to handle real problems? Heard of the Palestinian kid who brandished his sword inside the White ...
Five years after the invasion of Iraq, punditry sophisticates want to reduce it to a simple American bull wreaking havoc upon an Iraqi paradise, arousing an Islamist monster and giving al-Qaeda new life in Mesopotamia. This nightmare will promptly end, ...
After pleading with King Abdullah to pump more oil and ease gas prices, "get lost" was the answer President Bush received on his historic visit to Saudi Arabia. "Presidents and kings have every right to comment or ask or say whatever they want," but we ...
Anwar Sadat used to say America held 99% of the cards in the Arab-Israeli conflict. When the late Egyptian president joined the game, he won back every inch of the Sinai and secured a peace treaty with the Jewish state. The cards are still in America's ...
President Bush will return empty-handed from his first voyage to some dicey Arab countries — including Saudi Arabia, the world's prime purveyor of Islamofascism. The Saudis will be able to buy more advanced weapons, and they will get a free pass to ...
The organizers of the Middle East gathering at Annapolis, Md., should have screened "The Band's Visit," a gem of an Israeli movie playing in theaters in New York, instead of the grim replay of old footage we saw last month. Of course, it is only a ...
Foreign policy wonks, politicians, and even the presidents of Jewish organizations have returned from their visits to Saudi Arabia and Arab sheikdoms — dazed by "private confessions" that these regimes deeply fear Iran, uniformly favor attacking its ...
Do American institutions want to snuggle up with Saudi Arabia and its Dark Age values? They had better think this one through as a tidal wave of money from Saudi Arabia — as well as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait — is crashing into these ...
Like the menacing crows in Alfred Hitchcock's classic "The Birds," participants are gathering at Annapolis for the first Middle East megaconference in 16 years. After much coyness, it seems that everyone is coming: the princes of corruption, assorted ...
When Hugo Chavez was elected president of Venezuela in 1998, he promised nirvana to a country with 39% of its population living below the poverty line. Nine years later, as Mr. Chavez's "Bolivarian Revolution" promotes exotic plans to cut the workday ...
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