If Iran obtains nuclear weapons capability, "I think other nations across the Middle East will want to develop nuclear weapons". Thus thundered…
John McCain backed the good guys in Libya, who are now keenly torturing their opponents to death. The same John McCain now…
President Bashar al-Assad is not about to go. Not yet. Not, maybe, for quite a long time. Newspapers in the Middle East…
An Attack On Tehran Would Be Madness. So Don't Rule It Out http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-an-attack-on-tehran-would-be-madness-so-dont-rule-it-out-6358872.html The Independent Robert Fisk If Israel really attacks…
The violence grows worse. The Arab League throws up its hands in despair. Madame Clinton may huff and puff at the United…
The Palestinians are not only, it seems, an "invented people" – courtesy of Newt Gingrich – but the only Arabs on the…
It was the Assad Speech of the Year. There was an international conspiracy against Syria. True. Arab states opposed to Syria were…
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Just for a moment, put aside the current Franco-Turkish war over the 20th century's first Holocaust – of the Armenians – and…
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