I would be surprised…. ====== y Mario Loyola May 29, 2015 6:24 p.m. As the fight to retake Ramadi from Islamic State, also known as ISIS, heats up, I can’t help thinking of my visit to the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province nearly eight years ago, and of America’s broken promises since then. In September 2007, I was in Ramadi for a gathering... Read more
Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
‘Headscarves and Hymens’
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Losing Freedom, Middle EastWhere is the Left on behalf of women? ================= By Bari Weiss April 27, 2015 7:22 p.m. ET If you are cursed to be born a girl in Egypt, there is a 90% chance you will have your genitals cut in the name of purity. In Yemen, there is a 55% chance you will never learn to read and a 79% chance you... Read more
Israel Alone
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Middle EastSad day for sure. ==== By Bret Stephens April 20, 2015 7:37 p.m. ET 1125 COMMENTS Recent conversations with senior Israeli officials are shot through with a sense of incredulity. They can’t understand what’s become of U.S. foreign policy. They don’t know how to square Barack Obama’s promises with his policies. They fail to grasp how a president who pledged to work toward the abolition... Read more
Obama’s Mideast Vacuum
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationAnother “total disaster” if you want my opinion. =========== March 26, 2015 7:21 p.m. An abiding goal of President Obama’s foreign policy has been to reduce America’s role in the Middle East, in the belief that it would lead to greater stability and serve U.S. interests. Has a policy ever been so thoroughly repudiated in so short a time? Mr. Obama has succeeded... Read more
An Unusual Religious Alliance to Aid Refugees
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, ISIS, Israel, Middle EastHow refreshing. Oh, it can be done! ============= By Georgette Bennett March 26, 2015 7:08 p.m. ET Last month I visited the Syrian refugee camp in Jordan known as Za’atari. With 80,000 occupants, the camp would be the fourth-largest city in Jordan. It occupies a vast desert plain, filled with endless rows of tents that are gradually being replaced with rows of metal-sided... Read more
A Speech Netanyahu Must Give
February 7 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Middle East, Republican(s)Mr Stephens hits the nail squarely, again! =========== Even friends of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are second-guessing his decision to accept House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to address Congress next month on the subject of Iran, over loud objections from the Obama administration. The prospect of the speech, those friends say, has sparked a needless crisis between Jerusalem and Washington. And... Read more
