So much for conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the world. We can’t even get together to control the outcome of the war in Ukraine.
Israel’s Strange Ambivalence on Ukraine
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Bilateral Complicity: The Next U.S. President and Egypt
Washington sends over a billion dollars to Egypt every year. Will the next president demand a better human rights record in return?
The Future of Europe Depends on This Vote in the Netherlands
A trade referendum in tiny Holland may influence the future of Ukraine, the trajectory of the EU, and whether armed conflict will return to Eastern Europe.
A Military Budget on the Wrong Side of History
The Obama administration is scrambling to get on the right side of history. It has a lot of ground to make up. History is mostly judging the United States these days for launching, and now perpetuating, the longest wars in our history.
The Candidates and India
For the past few months it seems that New Delhi has been shrouded in a thick, meandering fog. For the auto rickshaw drivers and fruit vendors, the intelligentsia and the elite who occupy the steamy Gangetic Plains, the fog has become, as all things in India must, symbolic of an uncertain future. A Pakistan on the verge of doom? An Olympic China who this summer will put India in the shadows? An increasingly bellicose Russia? Wrong on all counts.
U.S. Must Broker Mideast Cease-Fire
The United States supplies most of Israel’s weapons, and it bears some responsibility for the escalating violence in Israel and Lebanon. It must now use its influence to call for an immediate cease-fire in the assault that has killed so many innocent civilians.