Epstein Secrets

s been doing quite well, having gained the enthusiastic endorsement of certain sectors of the American Jewish community as well as former president Bill Clinton (who blurbed the book) and Jeremy Ben-Ami, leader of the self-defined liberal pro-Israel organization J Street. Beinart has many points in his fav

is sweet but disturbingly tribalist, not to mention ultimately disrespectful of the background Obama does have. The president is not a Jew, just as Clinton was not our first black president. So why assert it? Because Beinart has identified Obama, who garnered overwhelming Jewish support in the last ele

d. Shater's entry into the Presidential race just introduces one more wild card into this loaded deck. At least Egyptian politics won't be boring. Marc Lynch is associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. The Daily-News Egypt Al-Shater nomination s

y, we often expect too much, that somehow Hillary Clinton should have been able to save the life of ambass

instigated by Twitter, Facebook and other social-media services, but they certainly helped it gain momentum. "The internet is an intensifier," says Marc Lynch of George Washington University, a noted scholar of the protest movements in the region. In the course of just a few years digital technology has b

authority, Morsi and his colleagues have largely gotten a pass. To be sure, EFTA00711984 Dennis Ross, the former Middle East hand for Bush (41), Clinton, and Obama, published a critical op-ed in the Washington Post and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Eric Trager did the same in the

esident "must learn to live with a certain amount of criticism." Before going any further, let me stipulate that I agree with my colleague and pal, Marc Lynch, who has pointed out that because Egypt is so polarized that whatever Morsi, the FJP, and the Brothers do, someone is going to see it as sinister.