Yesterday, my colleague AWR Hawkins reported that the White House, on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, had declined a meeting request from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It is the first time Obama has turned down a meeting
On Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said America was still Israel’s “chief ally” even after the United States rebuffed Israel’s request for a “red line” to be placed before Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. “We
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone for an hour late Tuesday. The call occurred after an Israeli official said the White House rejected Netanyahu’s request for a meeting with Obama during the opening
President Obama’s central foreign policy accomplishment, according to his campaign, is the killing of Osama Bin Laden. And it’s quite an accomplishment: finding a man hidden halfway around the globe, ensconced among his multiple wives, with no access to the
While angry mobs raged against the U.S. embassy in Cairo and set fire to our consulate in Libya, President Obama spent time talking with the “Pimp with the Limp”: The President spent the somber 11th anniversary of 9/11 with his
In the first and second parts of this series on the Muslim Brotherhood’s takeover of Egypt–and what it means for the US and its allies–we noted that both the Obama administration and the mainstream media have consistently misjudged the political
The Obama Administration is letting Israel twist slowly in the wind. The Israeli government, desperately trying to convince the U.S. government to draw a line in the sand that Iran must not cross, is pleading to a president deaf, unconcerned,
President Barack Obama has declined a request to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later this month. Although the PM will only be in the US for two and half days, his office contacted the White House to express
After the Obama administration rejected red lines for Iran, Israeli PM Netanyahu said those “who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.” In other words, if the US won’t hold
Even as the Obama campaign tries to recover from its anti-Israel blow-up at the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama continues to undermine the campaign’s Jewish appeal. Today, the White House declined to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to meet President
Reports indicate the terrorist group behind untold numbers of American military deaths over the last decade and beyond, is comfortable with a second term for Obama and ready to completely sever ties with Al-Qaeda. Four senior Taliban officials say they
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Syria’s Assad regime turns to ‘barrel bombs’ for more thorough extermination Australia sending illegal migrants to Nauru and Manus islands China’s Xi Jinping disappears, spurring rumors of accident or assassination Iran’s rial currency crashes
Israel is talking with Washington about laying down “clear red lines” for Iran over its nuclear programme, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with Canada’s CBC. Over the past week, the Israeli leader has repeatedly driven home the
Iran on Monday said Canada had a “neo-conservative extremist government” as it kept up a furious response to Ottawa’s decision last week to cut diplomatic ties. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi used that description in an interview with the Iranian
Iran’s currency was on Sunday sliding to a new record low against the dollar, with the central bank saying it was trying to manage the plunge amid an “economic war with the world.” Street traders were exchanging one dollar for
Reports indicate that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is willing to walk back his push for an imminent pre-emptive attack on Iran if President Obama is willing to set “red lines” by which Iran must abide. Iran would face immediate
An Iranian pastor sentenced to death for his Christian beliefs was released from custody during a Saturday court proceeding, according to an international religious freedom organization. Christian Solidarity Worldwide reports that a court acquitted Yousef Nadarkhani of the Church of
By BRIAN MURPHYAssociated PressDUBAI, United Arab EmiratesAs Iran’s president crafts his talking points for his annual trip to New York, one message is likely to remain near the top: Tehran has not closed the door on nuclear dialogue and is
By LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated PressWASHINGTONAs Americans debate whether they are better off now than they were four years ago, there is another question with a somewhat easier answer: Are you safer now than you were when President Barack Obama took
It’s hard to know which is worse: the arrogance of the Obama administration in assuming that its White House staffers can get away with anything, or the apathy of the media in not holding those staffers accountable. Actually, let’s scratch
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Japan-China island dispute being driven by popular nationalism on both sides Canada severs all diplomatic relations with Iran Canada suggests that its diplomats in Iran were in danger Japan-China island dispute being driven by
As the Romney-Ryan ticket inches ahead in the polls, one of the little noticed implications just may be the avoidance, at least for a time, of World War III. World War III? How does that work? According to high-level U.S.
(AP) Canada closes embassy in IranTORONTOThe Canadian government says it is shutting its embassy in Tehran and severing diplomatic relations amid recent attacks on foreign diplomats in Iran. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Friday that the Canadian embassy in
The Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral James Winnefeld, is on a secret visit to Israel as tensions rise over Iran’s nuclear progress, Israel’s army radio reported on Thursday. The Israeli military itself refused to confirm
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Bullfights to the death being televised in Spain and Portugal Eurozone demands that Greeks should work six days a week Six thousand would-be immigrants wait in Turkey to be smuggled into Greece Televised speeches
