Category: Foreign Policy
If You Build It They Will Come | Making the Middle East Pay
by WS Editors | Oct 15, 2010 | Foreign Policy, MediaBuilding a State “The state of Palestine has to be built. And if we Palestinians do not do it, who is going to do it for us?” Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad — September 23, 2010 After Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad concluded his talk at the New America Foundation‘s Washington offices, a […]
Hard Facts on the Ground | Senatorial Courtesy
by WS Editors | Oct 15, 2010 | Foreign PolicyHard Facts on the Ground—Daniel Levy is one of the more insightful progressive voices in Washington regarding Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which are collapsing because of a disagreement over Israeli settlement policy. A British-born Israeli, Levy has worked as a policy advisor for Yossi Beilin when Beilin served as Israel’s minister of justice. He was a member […]
Health Care Reform Holiday | Help Wanted? | Beware the Activist Judge
by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2010 | Economy, Foreign PolicyYes and No—Yes. Last month J Street kicked off a national campaign promoting a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine deadlock. J Street is a non-profit advocacy group that describes itself as the “Political Home for Pro-Israel, Pro-peace Americans.” Far more progressive and eclectic than the entrenched American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC: “America’s Pro-Israel Lobby”), […]
The Karzai Conundrum | War Making You Poor?
by WS Editors | Jun 15, 2010 | Economy, Foreign PolicyThe Karzai Conundrum—”I want to thank the American people for their sacrifice,” Dr. Abdullah Abdullah said. Abdullah might have won the 2009 presidential election in Afghanistan, which was stolen through massive ballot fraud that made Hamid Karzai president. An ophthalmologist who began his political career in the Afghan resistance to Soviet occupation in the 1980s, […]
Obama Drops the Bomb
by WS Editors | Jun 1, 2010 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsNuclear Posturing “I’m sure we’ll have several questions here, but principally no new testing, no new warheads … no new missions or capabilities.” It is Russia that matters, if only because the United States and Russia possess 95 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons. Weapons that are by and large useless. No longer does a […]
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