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By J. E. Dyer
Hamas' purpose was to attack the unity of the de facto Middle East coalition – a coalition against radical Iran – forming through the Abraham Accords. The premise of the attack was that framing the conflict as a response to an outrage against Al Aqsa, and forcing Israel to strike back hard, would peel away the Arab partners to the Abraham Accords.
By J. E. Dyer
The impetus for a break-up depends mostly on how badly "RED" America wants to escape the repressive policy overreach of "BLUE" America.
By J. E. Dyer
The pretense of honoring the rule of law is already gone. It was gone under Obama for years, but it has now emerged into the open as a change in the rules of engagement.
By J. E. Dyer
The Democrats are bloviating as vociferously as they can to create an appearance of crime and judicial requirements. But the blunt reality is that those elements don’t exist. criminal charges. There’s no actual crime at issue.
By J. E. Dyer
In military planning terms, Soleimani was the operational center of gravity for Iran’s proxy campaign throughout the Middle East, from Iraq to Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. That operational center of gravity just received a knockout blow.
By J. E. Dyer
Probably the most overlooked aspect of the “flags on the sidewalk” phenomenon in Iran is that, as the regime paints those flags everywhere, hoping Iranians will step on them, it is basically symbolizing its – the regime’s – effective “occupation” by its obsession with the Great Satan and the Little Satan.
By J. E. Dyer
Shadow battle with Iran continues
By J. E. Dyer
In America, Ilhan Omar has the right to express anti-Semitic views, using, if she chooses, the same anti-Semitic themes as Nazi propagandists. Her constituents in Minnesota have the right to elect her to Congress. But that doesn’t mean any of them has a right to any committee assignments for Omar in the House of Representatives, much less choice ones like the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
By J. E. Dyer
The U.S. leaving Syria won’t mean Syria descending into chaos. I can’t say I like what it does mean for Syria. But chaos is not in the offing.
By J. E. Dyer
the timing of the migrant caravan tells its own story. If we look at it as a move by Russia and Iran, in particular, it can be logically recognized as part of a campaign to attack U.S. interests on a broad front. The motive is to increase the pressure on the Trump administration across the board, partly but significantly because Trump is shifting his strategy in Syria toward going for Tehran’s solar plexus by kicking Iran out of it.
By J. E. Dyer
AMLO is all for tearing down borders – except that of course Mexico gets to have them, and rely on them to protect policies on economics and other issues. Mexico moreover gets to use the power of the nation-state to … well, not to put it too delicately, to extort the United States.
By J. E. Dyer
It probably doesn’t feel this way to the people trying to explain why Israel has to defend herself, but over the past week, since Hamas’ border fence “protests” from Gaza cranked up, there has been a distinctly tinny, perfunctory sound to the adverse media coverage and political shouting.
By J. E. Dyer
The source of the report claiming that Israeli F-35 strike-fighters flew into Iranian airspace during the past month was a sensationalist Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida. So the claim seems most suspect.
By J. E. Dyer
If Iran isn’t daunted by Israel’s pushback on Saturday, Israel will have to push back more. If Iran makes that “about” the strategic situation in Syria, the U.S. will have to push back more too.
By J. E. Dyer
As long as the mainstream media have rumors of geniuses and *********to combat, they may not be able to mount a concerted, thematic counter-effort against Trump’s actual policy moves.
By J. E. Dyer
A report is also circulating that a top member of the clerical council in Qom has expressed support for the popular protesters. That doesn’t mean anything specific is going to be conceded to the protesters. But it does mean, at the least, that at least some on the council see a need to appease the people
By J. E. Dyer
Kelly’s walking into something that will be a tougher challenge than homeland security. He’s a good choice, and we have reason to hope for good things to come of it.
By J. E. Dyer
Earlier this week, the public learned that the entire $1.7 billion had been transferred to Iran in cash, like some illicit deal--which it was.
By J. E. Dyer
Does anyone out there know anyone who would stick a laptop in the mail, in a cavalier manner that would leave it susceptible to being “lost”? Is it conceivable this person might become PRESIDENT?
By J. E. Dyer
A key feature of “Trump truth” is Donald Trump’s unvarnished, attention-grabbing imprecision when he frames contentious statements.
By J. E. Dyer
However long Boris struts and frets on the world stage, he’ll be by far the most entertaining Official Foreign Minister out there--And by no means the most foolish.
By J. E. Dyer
The Department of Justice initially censored the transcripts of the terrorist Omar Mateen, perpetrator of the Orlando Massacre, deleting his pledge to ISIS.
By J. E. Dyer
One passenger – a Holocaust survivor – said that the police’s treatment of them was similar to the behavior of Nazi Germany’s SS during World War II.
By J. E. Dyer
Nancy Reagan's support for Vietnam vets was described, “She cared when it seemed nobody else did”
By J. E. Dyer
In his travels as a journalist in the Islamic world, Sotloff never referred to his Jewishness.
By J. E. Dyer
ZIM Piraeus isn’t Israeli-owned or flagged, incidentally, it is Greek operated.
By J. E. Dyer
Obama is transparent, if you read his oracular signs with the right key.
By J. E. Dyer
ISIS has no intention of “marching on” Baghdad. The Sunni affiliates of ISIS are going to disrupt life there.
By J. E. Dyer
Oslo's moment of unchallenged American supremacy and the illusion of unforced global stasis, passed.
By J. E. Dyer
Could the Obamas be any more “let ‘em eat cake”?
By J. E. Dyer
The Obama administration wants to take over the short-term financial services industry.
By J. E. Dyer
The topics are “The Reagan Strategy,” and the “Iran Time Bomb.”
By J. E. Dyer
Maybe it’s a tad undiplomatic to announce it publicly before telling Israel’s prime minister about it?
By J. E. Dyer
Nobody wants a wind turbine in his back yard.
By J. E. Dyer
Monday, November 11, Russia’s Slava-class missile cruiser Varyag pulled into Alexandria for the Russian navy’s first port visit in Egypt since 1992.
By J. E. Dyer
There may no longer be a unifying “center” to hold the GOP together.
By J. E. Dyer
As happy as I am to see the EPA and other agencies off the job, I’m concerned about morale among the hard-working law enforcement and essential-services folks.
By J. E. Dyer
We're asking U.S. troops to go into Syria without an overwhelming advantage, and without minimizing our risks.
By J. E. Dyer
We don’t know what their thinking is on the choice between evils: the evil of intervening or the evil of failing to after defining a red line.
By J. E. Dyer
The Muslim Brotherhood is willing to keep chaos and misery going for as long as necessary to topple the military’s interim government.
By J. E. Dyer
Ms. Blum worked through the wickets Facebook set up for restoring her account to its good graces, but was unable to determine what, exactly, had violated its standards.
By J. E. Dyer
If we should have learned anything since January 2011, it’s that Middle Eastern unrest is growing because of a good half a dozen really important things other than “Israel.”
By J. E. Dyer
Is this the face of Christianity, as Christian Century would like to see it displayed? For my part, I repudiate it without hesitation.
By J. E. Dyer
Rohani’s election positions the regime to cater – superficially – to reform-minded voters in Iran, while improving Iran’s prospects in international negotiations.
By J. E. Dyer
This is the second time reports have surfaced that Israel hit Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Center.
By J. E. Dyer
Ghe Iran nuclear problem is not one that can be dealt with via a small, pinpoint strike, in a matter of only minutes on target.
By J. E. Dyer
It is not obvious that any group or type of person in particular mounted this one, nor can any be ruled out.
By J. E. Dyer
Slinging force around, with press notices, is not what a strong president does.
By J. E. Dyer
Based on the Associated Press's definition, whom exactly can a reporter call an Islamist?
By J. E. Dyer
Now is a good time for the EU to take stock and recognize that the entire Cyprus problem, like the Greece problem, was created by the actions of government.
By J. E. Dyer
Nukes aren’t something you wave around like a drunk brandishing a knife.
By J. E. Dyer
At least Russia and China are probably as mystified as we are about where Obama is going with his missile defense policy.
By J. E. Dyer
It is unconscionable of Obama to handle the sequestration threat the way he has - crippling our ability to readily strike Iran.
By J. E. Dyer
There is a foreign-policy aspect of 'perception benefits' Obama hopes to garner from a photo-op tour of Israel.
By J. E. Dyer
To advance our objectives in the War on Terror there was and will be nothing to justify the extra-judicial, standoff-distance execution of a US citizen.
By J. E. Dyer
Samantha Mathis as Dagny Taggart adds some gravitas to the second in the Atlas Shrugged series – Atlas Shrugged II: Either-Or – and director John Putch (the 2005 Poseidon Adventure, The Book of Love) keeps the story moving right along.
By J. E. Dyer
There has been a tremendous growth in vague, elliptical, and/or tendentious narration of what’s going on in the nation and the world. The people can be pardoned for being tired and confused.
By J. E. Dyer
The U.S. is being made to look weak in Egypt, and is actually acting weak with allies and foes alike.
By J. E. Dyer
India has just conducted an unprecedented four-day port visit in Haifa, during which Indian sailors roamed Israel as American sailors have for many years, and joint ceremonies were held with the local population. A naval visit to Israel is a big political signal; India would not be sending it lightly.
By J. E. Dyer
The period of the Obama tenure, and now the 2012 election, are forcing Americans to reconsider, in a way I’m not sure we have for a good 200 years, what the vote means, and what politics means to our lives. Since 1792, the sense has gradually crept upon us that when we elect a president, we are electing our collective future. That sense took a giant leap forward with the FDR presidency, and frankly, it took another one when Reagan entered office.
By J. E. Dyer
The holiday from history is over, although we may be the last ones to see it. Neither Russia nor Iran – nor China, North Korea, or Syria, for that matter – is very interested in signing anything with the West right now. Good deals based on the old assumptions aren’t as tempting when better ones seem to lie just over the horizon.
By J. E. Dyer
A solution in which the Syrian people are empowered to operate more freely in a true multi-party government, under the aegis of multinational protection against both Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, would be the most desirable, achievable outcome. It is not possible to broker this outcome while ignoring Russia.
By J. E. Dyer
Iran is making full use of strategic ambiguity on the high seas to advance its interests and dictate outcomes. Unless each new measure is directly challenged, strategic ambiguity would be a lot more fun for Iran than for the rest of us.
By J. E. Dyer
Robert Mackey at New York Times’ The Lede has a Friday post entitled “Crisis in Syria Looks Very Different on Satellite Channels Owned by Russia and Iran.” Well, no kidding. It’s nice to see NYT catching up with the rest of the infosphere. But it’s not just in Russian and Iranian media that the crisis […]
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