Asia & Americas

With the approach of the 2012 U.S. presidential elections scheduled for November, difficult questions have arisen about the significance of the Jewish lobby in those elections on the one...

Cairo: It's understandable that each country is entitled to pursue its national interests, and that one country's national interest may partially conflict with that of another. But it's difficult...

Foreign Policy magazine has compiled a list of the 50 Republicans who have the greatest influence on the GOP's foreign policy. "Politics is mostly about people – and nowhere...

Edward Said's scholarly work on Western media coverage of Muslim and Arab countries showed that it has been shaped by discreet cultural biases or political motives. This fact couldn't...

The US State Department is circulating a confidential letter urging European Union (EU) members and other "friendly" countries to help block Palestinian attempts to secure non-member Observer State status...

THE results of US elections are eccentric. While re-electing Barack Obama to the White House, voters also chose members of the opposing party as their representatives in Congress. Pundits...

US President Barack Obama will pay a visit to the Middle East next month. This will be his first trip to Israel in particular since his election in 2008...

Anti-Hagel groups in Washington are doing all they can to block Barack Obama's nominee for the post of Secretary of Defence, Chuck Hagel. The anti-Hagel alliance, led from behind...

When US Secretary of State, John Kerry, and his Russian counterpart and host Sergei Lavrov, make an announcement on having reached an agreement to hold an international conference on...

Michele Bachman, Steve King and Louie Gohmert's visit to Egypt has been an interesting turn for the three Congress members. During their visit to Cairo they met the interim...

From his first days in office, President Barack Obama has sought to reassure the Muslim world that the "change doctrine" he brought to the White House supports issues concerning...

Perhaps understandably, the US is secretive about its drone programme. But over the last decade, thousands of unmanned drones have been deployed in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia as part...

There is mounting pressure on the Obama administration amid concerns at its effectiveness as a peace broker in the Middle East conflict. Senator George Mitchell, US envoy to the...

In the traditional State of the Union speech yesterday, President Barack Obama mentioned one group of people (politicians aside) more than anyone else: the lobbyists. In pointing to their...

Andrew Roberts is a historian of note, but his robust defence of the state of Israel in the Financial Times (Israel is no more rogue than America, 3 March)...

At least a quarter of a million Israelis protested in August over the cost of living. In Tel Aviv alone, 200,000 people took to the streets. The protests, however,...

As the news of the Connecticut school massacre sinks in, it would take a hard-hearted person not to feel for the parents, families and friends of the victims. It...

In a matter of days, US President Barak Obama will seek authorisation from Congress to begin airstrikes against Syria. The members of Congress are being asked to approve "limited"...

The fall of the Soviet Union pleased America immensely, but the return of its ghost in Russia as a major player on the international stage is a concern. Post-Cold...

The United States of America continues to play its role as the world's policeman despite the huge financial crisis it is suffering and sharp internal polarisation. We were reminded...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has been preoccupied with the Middle East recently. After visiting Egypt and Saudi Arabia in order to repair damaged relations, he headed to...

The attack on the Gaza relief flotilla jeopardizes Israel itself. By John J. Mearsheimer Israel's botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign...

By Maidhc Ó Cathail It would be hard to think of anyone who has done more to undermine American freedoms than Joseph Lieberman. Since 9/11, the Independent senator from...

By Khalid AmayrehDespite President Obama's efforts to assure the pliant Ramallah leadership of his continued commitment to a notoriously disingenuous peace process, especially the creation of a Palestinian state,...

By Paul Woodward Eight months after the murder of the Hamas commander, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in Dubai, two reports in the last few days present intriguingly contradictory pictures. First came...

Why America will come to regret the craven deal Obama is offering Netanyahu. By Christopher Hitchens Those of us who keep an eye on the parties of God are...

By Mark Perry A legendary story from our early history has it that Thomas Jefferson so hated John Jay that he ordered Pierre L'Enfant — the civil engineer who...

By Franklin Lamb, Beirut Ever so slowly over the past two decades, with growing momentum since Israel's April 2002 destruction of the Jenin refugee camp, American attitudes towards Israel...

The recent call by U.S. Senator Charles Schumer for increased rail safety funding and the creation of a "no-ride" list for Amtrak trains is yet another reminder of just...

The "new Iraq" government and its media are beating the drums of comprehensive sectarian strife. The Iraqi people, drowning in a flood of poverty, poor education and health provision,...

Well known for his anti-imperialist stance and support for oppressed people, Hugo Chavez's death has provoked a worldwide lament. In Palestine, activists participating in demonstrations against Israeli administrative detention...

The sale of Israeli military equipment to China has sparked outrage in the United States, leading to the resignation of an Israeli Defence Ministry official. The Israeli newspaper Maariv...