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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is making Heather Nauert his ambassador to the United Nations, the most empty-headed such appointment since George W. Bush tried to shoehorn the crazed John Bolton into [...]

In a rare display of congressional constructiveness, the Nov. 26-27 Annapolis conference was preceded by a Nov. 19 bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, originated by Reps. Gary [...]

Spring 2007 brought a glimmer of hope for peace in the Middle East. As war casualties mounted in Iraq and tear gas filled the streets of Nablus, Arab leaders made [...]

On July 16, five days into Israel's blitz on Lebanon, the Interfaith Community United for Justice and Peace convened a meeting of Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Islamic Center [...]

Once we had one Saddam and we knew who to be afraid of. Now we have at least 25 to fear.--Iraqi playwright complaining of intimidation by religious factions, quoted in [...]

The peace movements of the entire world should be in crisis mode right now, working non-stop to prevent the U.S. and Israel from starting a war against Iran. (See the [...]

U.S. policy is not much focused on democracy or freedom. It is about oil, gas, and hegemony.--Letter from Craig Murray, British ambassador to Uzbekistan, to the British Foreign Office, March [...]

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle [...]

There exists a paucity of original, creative thinking among U.S. foreign policymakers. This is the message being propagated by Stephen Kinzer, author of Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future. Kinzer [...]

Prof. Richard Falk, the U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, opened his 2009 Edward Said Memorial lecture at the Palestine Center on Oct. 6 by paying tribute to [...]

Political analyst and author Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at both the Transitional Institute in Amsterdam and the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, spoke in Akron, OH on May [...]

U.S. policy in Lebanon and Syria was the main target of criticism at an Oct. 25 panel entitled 'Geopolitical Dynamics: Lebanon and Syria,' part of the National Council on U.S.-Arab [...]

For its inaugural event, Princeton University's Book Forum chose The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy for debate and discussion. Authors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen [...]

As the fifth anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom nears, the fabulists are again trying to weave their own version of the war. The latest myth is that the 'surge' is [...]

The Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) hosted the 49th presentation of its Capitol Hill Conference Series on U.S. Middle East Policy entitled 'The Future of the Middle East: Strategic Implications [...]

The confirmation of Zalmay Khalilzad as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. may be a mixed blessing. He is certainly a more proficient diplomat than his unconfirmed predecessor, John Bolton, and [...]

The previous issue of the Washington Report described four measures introduced to counter the push by unrepentant neocons for the U.S. to launch a 'pre-emptive strike' against Iran. Overlooked in [...]

Shortly after taking office, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon mentioned that the Israeli-Palestine question was a crucial one and that he wanted to get the Quartet on the case. Needless to [...]

As Palestine teeters on the brink of the civil war long sought by Israel, the U.S. and the EU--with Israel and the U.S. sending arms to the side perceived as [...]

The Nov. 5 sentencing of Saddam Hussain to death by hanging for crimes against humanity was met with mixed feelings by the European press. 'His guilt over these atrocities cannot [...]

The London Review of Books (LRB) hosted a Sept. 28 debate on 'The Israel Lobby: Does it have too much influence on U.S. foreign policy?' in New York City's Great [...]

Members of Congress and the Moroccan parliament, human rights experts, and senior U.S. government officials met on Capitol Hill June 8 to discuss Morocco's recent democratic reforms and their contribution [...]

Never has the gulf between U.S. and Israeli interests been clearer than during the present crisis. And not since the shameful coverup of the 1967 Israeli bombing of the USS [...]

Yasser Abed Rabbo, member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Executive Committee, opened the second panel. Emphasizing that it was in U.S. interests to promote Israeli-Palestinian negotiations--'to give U.S. policy credibility [...]

The role of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and other components of the pro-Israel lobby in shaping U.S. Middle East policy is being debated as never before, focusing [...]

Americans are usually excessively polite when it comes to talking about religion or politics. We don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, so we may avoid discussing either subject too passionately [...]

The General Assembly (GA) of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is the governing body of a Protestant denomination of 2.4 million members, 11,100 congregations and 14,000 ordained and active ministers. At [...]

If all the world's a stage, then what's playing on it is America as morality play. And the painfully clueless Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes, who visited the Middle East [...]

Karen Hughes, the new undersecretary for public diplomacy in charge of improving the U.S. image abroad, has returned from several 'listening tours' of the Muslim world. Her first mission, in [...]

Operating just outside the 'axis of evil,' Damascus may seem an unlikely tourist destination for Americans right now--with the Bush administration's accusing Syria of supporting the insurgency in Iraq and [...]

As part of a two-week tour organized by U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW), a coalition of American labor unions opposed to the war on and occupation of Iraq, six [...]

The United States-Egypt Friendship Society (USEP) hosted a May 9 panel discussion at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC on 'Assessing U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Arab [...]

A delegation of concerned citizen groups met with State Department officials on Feb. 17 to request an explanation of the U.S. government's official silence over the mistreatment of Americans in [...]

Freedom of speech and conscience on American universities and colleges, particularly in relation to Middle East studies, has been taking some hard hits, of late. First, there was the post-9/11 [...]

Whether or not Syrian President Bashar Assad was behind Monday's assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, the car bombing is sure to strengthen forces inside the administration of [...]

Despite the lack of any definitive links connecting Syria to the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, the Bush administration boldly leapt to assert that Syria [...]

On March 2 Human Rights Watch released a videotape in which Musa Hilal, a top leader of the Janjaweed militia in Darfur, told the interviewers that the government of Sudan [...]

Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered opening remarks on multilateral cooperation to members of the Bretton Woods Committee at the U.S. Department of State June 12. Before rejoining the government, [...]

Terror on the High Seas. On June 30, the Israeli navy hijacked a civilian relief boat carrying humanitarian relief to the besieged Gaza Strip (see story p. 20). Apparently it [...]

Wherever I first heard that hackneyed phrase, 'If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging,' it applies more today than at any time I can remember. What I don't [...]

Has anyone in President George W. Bush's administration asked Pakistani Americans for advice on U.S. foreign policy in Pakistan? Days after the Dec. 27 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Washington [...]

Bush's 'surge' speech is a hoax, but members of Congress and media commentators are discussing the surge as if it were real. I invite the reader to examine the speech. [...]

Times They Are A 'Changing ... For the first time in years we have some hope for the new year. In Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan, 2006 was marked by [...]

To The New York Times, Dec. 1, 2006 Re: 'Ten Months or Ten Years,' by Thomas L. Friedman (column, Nov. 29): Many who promoted the invasion of Iraq now seem [...]

To San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 19, 2006 Too bad we didn't have the Iraq Study Group before the invasion. We might have saved ourselves and the Iraqis a lot of [...]

To San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 24, 2006 In his letter ('Caesar's rule,' Nov. 23), John Chase says regarding the Iraqi war, 'Do we get out? Absolutely not, or we open [...]

More than 2,000 Arab Americans, Muslims and anti-war demonstrators rallied in front of Chicago's Tribune Plaza July 22 to ask President George W. Bush to call for a cease-fire in [...]

The ghastly human carnage at Qana, Lebanon, should awaken everyone to the grim reality that our nation's attachment to Israel is bad news. It entangles America in one awful mess [...]

Members of the Washington, DC Antiwar Network, Northern Virginia for Peace and Justice, Women for Peace and Justice in Iran, World Can' t Wait, Code Pink and other Washington, DC-area [...]

If we allow the Bush administration to drag this country into a war with Iran, we should all burn our voter-registration cards and go ahead and admit that we are [...]