From Iraq Study Group Wrong to Link Iraq to Israel: If Israelis and Palestinians reached peace tomorrow, it would be ludicrous to expect a therapeutic spillover effect in Iraq. The fighting in Iraq is caused by a brutal struggle for power, a proxy war fueled by Iran’s growing ambitions in the region and al-Qaeda’s ruthless campaign to establish a base of operations to export its...
The Big Lie About the Middle East: Arab Nations Don’t Care about the Palestinians
From The Big Lie About the Middle East: Arab Nations Don’t Care about the Palestinians: No sensible person is against peacemaking in the Holy Land. But in lumping the Iraq mess in with the Palestinian problem – and suggesting the first could not be fixed unless the second was too – the Baker-Hamilton commission lent credibility to a corrosive myth: that the fundamental problem...