Right Side of History or Left Side of Disaster?

By now, any­one who’s surfed the inter­net, turned on a TV, radio or had a dis­cus­sion about world pol­i­tics has heard that Egypt­ian Pres­i­dent Hosni Mubarak has stepped down. Really forced out. A peace­ful rev­o­lu­tion that was really a street-side coup d’état to top­ple a cor­rupt gov­ern­ment that was a firm friend of the West. So how do we inter­nal­ize US […]

Where’s Geraldo?

On February 4, 2011, in Egypt, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, by jenhanin

I’ll have to say my con­fi­dence in Piers Mor­gan evap­o­rated into the Orange County breeze last night when I heard him dimin­ish the dan­ger of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood on Piers Tonight. Piers went head-to-head with Mort Zuck­er­man, the cur­rent editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report when Zuck­er­man essen­tially told Piers that they don’t play in […]

No Common Ground in a Two-State Solution

On November 4, 2009, in Israel, Palestinians, by jenhanin

Like mil­lions of Amer­i­cans, I voted for Pres­i­dent Barak Obama. His opti­mistic plat­form rep­re­sented future pros­per­ity, path­break­ing change and an insa­tiable appetite to restore valor and respectabil­ity to the White House. But that enthu­si­asm turned to a dead calm when I read about U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Clin­ton and Pres­i­dent Obama’s spe­cial envoy, George Mitchell’s recent trip […]