The Israeli military, president and intelligence agencies continue to debate both an attack on Iran and how to rope the U.S. into the war.
The United States is applying pressure regarding the settlements — not on Israel, but on Palestine to withdraw the Security Council resolution calling them illegal.
Is the conventional thinking which holds that al-Qaeda has been marginalized by the Middle-East protests mistaken?
In our special focus on Islamophobia, FPIF talks with Phyllis Bennis: activist, analyst, and writer on Middle East and UN issues for many years.
The U.S. is supporting a U.N. Security Council statement condemning Israeli settlements.
Washington’s optimal position may be as a concerned bystander to developments in post-revolutionary Egypt.
Amid the continuing stand-off between protestors and the Egyptian government, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama appeared Wednesday to be losing patience with both President Hosni Mubarak and his new vice president, Gen. Omar Suleiman.
Hundreds of thousands of protestors took to the streets, fueled by poverty, hunger, and anger at their repressive government. Egypt? No, Iran, 1951, before the election of Prime Minister Mossadeq.
Even before the Bush administration, there were those who believed — or pretended to — that Iraq possessed nuclear weapons.
“Tunisia is known for exporting olive oil and deglet nour dates but is pleased to add revolution as one of its principal items of export.” Revolution will be Tunisia’s only around-the-clock and never-out-of-stock, free-of-charge export item. It is its only Marshall Plan for fostering homegrown democracy across the Arab world. Let it be so.