By David Blair and Richard Spencer 10:00PM BST 20 Sep 2014 Few outsiders have noticed, but radical Islamists now control Libya’s capital. These militias stormed Tripoli last month, forcing the official government to flee and hastening the country’s collapse into a failed state. [...]
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The hostilities in Gaza between Israel and Hamas persist and the diplomatic war at the United Nations continues, also without resolution. While there is no shortage of opinions on the way forward, the most obvious solution is strikingly absent — the need to disarm and [...]
When it comes to U.S. Mideast policy, Martin Indyk is something like a human seismograph. Having spent three and a half decades at the leading edge of U.S. policy in the region, the English-born, Australian-raised Indyk has grown acutely sensitive to the shifts, tremors, and upheavals [...]
Years ago I published a scathing article in a leading American newspaper, blasting my government and state for an aggressive, unsuccessful military operation, in which hundreds of thousands of civilians were driven from their homes and hundreds of innocents were killed. It wasn’t [...]
The great Ellen Willis, who died too young in 2006, was The New Yorker’s first rock critic, a founder of the radical feminist group the Redstockings, a longtime writer for The Village Voice, and the founder of New York University’s cultural reporting and criticism program. She left behind a body of work that includes many [...]
Obama Stifled Hillary’s Syria Plans and Ignored Her Iraq Warnings for Years The rift between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over Syria that spilled into public view this week was three years in the making and was about much more than just arming the rebels. Throughout 2011 [...]
Without Hamas, Israelis and Palestinians can find peace Now that they have finished burying their dead, fighting for the lives of the injured and discovering the vast scale of property damage, the citizens of this war in the Gaza Strip — or rather, its [...]
Last week, Hillary Clinton had a fascinating interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic. The interview got immediate attention because of the way she discussed her differences with President Obama. While admitting that no one will ever know who was right, Clinton argues that Obama might have done more to [...]
Read the full piece after the jump. On Sunday, after it was cleared for publication that six suspects had been arrested in the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, the youth from Shuafat, harsh condemnation statements were issued by the ministers of Bayit Yehudi party and other right-wing politicians. Bayit Yehudi Chairman Naftali Bennett took one step further than [...]