By Patrick J. BuchananWith the truce in the week-long Gaza war, Barack Obama is being prompted by right and left to re-engage and renew U.S. efforts to solve the core question of Middle East peace.Before he gets reinvolved in peacemaking, our once-burned president should ask himself some hard questions.Is real peace between Palestinians and Israelis even possible?Is there any Continue reading...
Is the Window Closing on Israel?
Friday - September 23, 2011 at 2:18 am
By Patrick J. BuchananIn June 1967, with ex-Vice President Richard Nixon, this writer toured an Israeli military hospital full of wounded Egyptian soldiers.An Israeli officer told us that in the hospital was an Egyptian officer he had captured in the 1956 Sinai campaign, and that he had asked the Egyptian: "We have fought three times now, and three times you have been defeated. Why do you Continue reading...
A Middle East Without America?
Friday - February 18, 2011 at 1:25 am
By Patrick J. BuchananThe fever sweeping the Middle East is now coursing through Libya, Yemen, Iran and Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based.In all four nations, state violence is being used to crush the rebels, and regime survival hangs on whether security forces and the army stand behind the government or stand aside.A new Middle East is dawning. What will it look Continue reading...
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