It was well past daybreak in Baghdad Wednesday when President-elect Barak Obama finally gave his acceptance speach. Afterwards, I pulled back the curtains from the windows in the television room of the New York Times bureau where I’d been gathered with…
Barack Obama’s speech in Chicago late last night contained glancing references to the Middle East, the first glimpse into his mindset as the president-in-waiting, as he prepares to set up his transition team for taking office in January. He referred to America’s “two wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan as among the top challenges that “are the […]
Will Palestinians have a “friend” in the White House if Barack Obama is elected president on Tuesday? Many supporters of the Palestinians think so or at least hope so. My advice to them: Don’t hold your breath. Get too close to a Palestinian, or voice too much sympathy for his cause, it seems, and you’re […]
A right-wing Israeli activist wears a sticker that reads in Hebrew: ‘Free Yigal Amir’ photo: David Furst/AFP/Getty Images
Considering that he shot and killed a much-loved Israeli prime minister, Yigal Amir had a cushy time of it in prison. In his cell, the unrepentant assassin was able to keep a library, a TV set and DVD […]
Barack Obama and John McCain agree on the need to support and protect Israel, confront Iran’s nuclear ambitions, withdraw troops from Iraq, protect strategic oil interests in the Gulf and bring stability to the Middle East. But there are notably sharp differences in how the U.S. presidential candidates would go about achieving those goals. Between […]
Barack Obama has inspired new hope in a troubled Middle East. Some of that is due to Obama’s actual policies and conciliatory demeanor, alot of it is based on a gut feeling that he’ll be more understanding and fairer to the Arab and Muslim world, not least because of his own Muslim roots and middle […]
Faithful TIME.com blog-readers may have noticed something odd today: the blogs kind of disappeared. Long story short, we’ve had major server problems, and as a result we’ve had to re-launch all of our blogs on WordPress. The upside is a faster, better, more stable platform. The downside is we’ll need a few days to get […]
By Mike EvansPublished: May 17, 2007
Sharon has not reached out to the evangelicals in America Political pundits have written off the pro-Israel vote, knowing that the majority of Jews in America are not voting for George W. Bush.
But wait. At the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Ronald Reagan told me that the most powerful […]
