Epstein Secrets

flict or the Iranian nuclear issue in a single accord. Finally, the president is dealing with a tough and suspicious ally in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and a tough and suspicious adversary in Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. There will be little sentimentality, benefit of the doubt, or magnan

ut these two negotiating challenges is that they're tied together, sequenced in the mind of the one regional player with a primary stake in both -- Netanyahu. Netanyahu's laws of political gravity don't allow him to make historic decisions on the Palestinian issue without a stronger sense for where Iran

ear issue, meanwhile, wouldn't guarantee an Israeli-Palestinian accord. But it would at least increase Obama's capacity to press for one and reduce Bibi's capacity to resist. (3) Time is not on Obama's side. Neither negotiation can drag on interminably. On the Israeli-Palestinian issue, even though

ing." They fear he sees this as a good democratization process that could well lead to U.S. support for similar movements in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States. They don't see the Arab Spring as democratization; they see it as an extremist Muslim challenge to their rule. Arab leaders don't think Obama unde

ighting hard for support from Jewish voters. He attacked Mr. Obama for "shabby treatment" of Israel. Relations between Mr. Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are obviously tense. But the administration has backed Israel in almost every way, and Israeli leaders have publicly acknowledged that. Mr. Romney

ns between Mr. Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are obviously tense. But the administration has

sition in exile, including several worthy academics and veteran opponents, are providing political cover for these more violent elements. Some Arab Gulf States persist in viewing the region through a sectarian prism. They are worried by Iran's alleged hegemonic ambitions. They are unhappy that Iraq -- once

was dismissed as lies by Iran. At a dockside display of the arms in the port of Ashdod on Wednesday conducted personally by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, he told local and foreign journalists that the weapons-trove disproved critics of Israel's policy of blockading the Gaza Strip in order to prevent

ed personally by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, he told local and foreign journalists that the

rl Square. The minority Sunni government began its final push to end the growing protests after a force of 1,000 soldiers from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States arrived to lend support to the Al-Khalifa regime. There were reports of live ammunition being fired at protestors in addition to rubber bullets an