Why Was Mahmoud Abbas Avoiding the UN Secretary-General?
He didn’t want to be told to behave.
September 8, 2017
Hijacking the Holocaust to Protect Barack Obama’s Legacy
A Holocaust Museum report absolved the former president of turning a blind eye to mass murder in Syria.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum recently announced and then canceled the release of a study purporting to show—using computer modeling and game theory—that American intervention to halt Bashar al-Assad’s slaughter of his own citizens would not have succeeded. The study, overseen by the Obama-administration national-security official Cameron Hudson, appeared to be a defense of the previous president’s inaction in the face of the Syrian regime’s war crimes and atrocities—while also ignoring his assiduous efforts to provide ample funds to Iran, Assad’s most important backer. Noah Rothman comments:
September 8, 2017
Hijacking the Holocaust to Protect Barack Obama’s Legacy
A Holocaust Museum report absolved the former president of turning a blind eye to mass murder in Syria.
Federalism Might Be What a Fractious Middle East Needs Most
The emirate solution.
Even without Faith, Religion Must Be Returned to the Public Square
The public square and the “Benedict option.”
Why Israel Never Brought Josef Mengele to Justice
More urgent priorities.