Who said this? “I’ll never give a veto to any country over our security.” Was it Franklin Roosevelt? Or, perhaps, Ronald Reagan? Actually, that was John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, and he made that pledge in the same debate with President Bush in which he later suggested that pre-emptive U.S. military action should …
Continue reading “Only Israel can make its fateful life-or-death decision”
U.S. foreign policy is about more than confronting immediate dangers. It’s also about promoting American values of freedom, democracy and human rights over the long term because we believe those values create the path for more peace and prosperity – not just at home but around the world. Though freedom and democracy have spread to …
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Appearing recently on al-Jazeera TV, Hamas leader Khaled Mashal made clear why he is pursuing a truce with Israel, and why anyone interested in a permanent Arab-Israeli peace should not be encouraged. “People should not assume that in the management of this conflict, we are moving from a phase of resistance and battles to a …
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No issue of public policy is hidden in more layers of mythology than the Arab-Israeli conflict. For decades, conventional wisdom has held that the path to peace runs through Jerusalem, that Arab hostility toward the Jewish state is rooted in sympathy with the Palestinian cause, and that Israeli concessions to the Palestinians will lead to …
Continue reading “Timing could not be worse for peace mission”
In early 2007, Defense Secretary Robert Gates opted for humor to defuse a tense situation on the world stage. A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin harshly criticized U.S. foreign policy at a security conference in Munich, arguing that America wants to be the world’s sole “master,” Gates told the assembled officials, “One Cold War …