Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump’s Jerusalem decision reveals yet again that he is an appallingly bad deal maker.

A foolish, and potentially dangerous, decision by President Trump.

Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Middle East peace was largely correct, but his words are pointless given the fact that neither Israel nor the Palestinians seem serious about peacefully resolving their differences.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

A freshman Member of Parliament was murdered today, and there may have been a political motive.

President Obama has apparently come to the same realization as many of his predecessors, that trying to craft a legacy by single-handedly bring about “Middle East Peace” is largely a waste of time.

In a case that took seven months to decide, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Presidency’s broad authority in foreign affairs, and inserted itself just a little bit in the thorny politics of the Middle East.

The Vatican has announced that it will recognize Palestinian statehood, but this is not going to resolve the underlying issues that prevent a Palestinian state from actually coming into existence.

By a wide margin Americans think it was wrong of the GOP to invite Israel’s Prime Minister to speak to Congress.

The Supreme Court will decide if Congress can override American foreign policy when it comes to declaring who has dominion over Jerusalem.

Sweden is set to recognize Palestine as an independent state.

A new poll shows that Americans are divided over Israel’s actions in Gaza, but this most likely will not impact relations between the two countries.

Hopes for a temporary respite in the Gaza conflict faded away today.

The First World War played an intriguing role in the birth of the radical Islam we are dealing with today.

Open mouth, insert foot.

Middle East peace talks are apparently in such bad shape that the U.S. is thinking of releasing Jonathan Pollard as an incentive to Israel.

After eight years in a coma, Ariel Sharon has passed away.

While I concur with the “intent, justice, legality, and morality” of the decision, I nonetheless oppose it.

Relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia seem to have soured in recent years.

Secretary of State Kerry becomes the latest American official to wade into the Middle East’s longest lasting quagmire.

Some thoughts on a decade old video in which Samantha Power speculates on actions to take against an unfolding genocide.

The events of the last week in Egypt raise a whole host of questions.

An American fighting with Syrian rebels faces life in prison for firing an RPG against a government we’re trying to oust.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

Another platform controversy?

A nine month Al Jazeera investigations indicates that poison may have played a role in Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death.

Mitt Romney’s view of the ideal relationship between the United States and Israel is, at the very least. quite odd, and, potentially, dangerous.

Rick Santorum’s foreign policy positions are troubling in many respects.

Rick Santorum has some bizarre views when it comes to the dispute between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Newt Gingrich’s comments about Palestinian nationhood came up during last night’s debate.

Once again, Newt Gingrich speaks without thinking.

We may have entered a new and dangerous phase of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Political journalists are asking clumsy, ignorant, and intolerant questions. Film at 11.

The United States is pressuring the Netanyahu government to move off its hard line.

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

I get the impression that a lot of people don’t even know what “the 1967 borders” are or why they tend to be considered the logical point of departure for any type of peace negotiations.

The US-Israeli relationship is not one of equals.