by James M. Wall       Israel never misses a chance to create a new road block for peace. The latest? Recognition Plus. Of course, Bibi Netanyahu could not put this latest road block over on the U.S. public without the help and support of the people he loves, AIPAC and his media and […]

Update: Iran Detaining Election Opponents In a practice which sounds disturbingly familiar to Middle East election watchers, the Iranian government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has “detained” leading supporters of the man who “lost” the election, Mirhossein Moussavi. It has become increasingly obvious that the election was “stolen” (see earlier update below). Of course it was. The familiarity comes […]

by James M. Wall   Reactions to Barack Obama’s Cairo speech were largely positive, with one notable caveat.   Start with the ongoing struggle between two Washington, D.C. lobby groups, AIPAC, and its emerging challenger, J Street.  The more moderate challenger’s rise to prominence was timely, just before Obama took off to Cairo where the President’s […]

by James M. Wall   President Obama has a massive educational task on his hands. In his long-awaited Cairo speech, he addressed a world audience of more than 1.2 billion Muslims, an estimated 22% of the world’s population, second only to Christianity, which has an estimated 33% of the world’s inhabitants. Obama chose a university campus […]