Barry Rubin

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2010/01/obama-administration-learns-basic.html Please subscribe. New things keep happening every day and you don’t want to miss them. In contrast to its refusal to change course on Iran, the Obama administration has learned something about Israel-Palestinian peacemaking, conclusions clearly expressed in the…

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2010/01/its-not-al-qaida-obama-administration.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Rubinreports+%28RubinReports%29 A friend sent me an article written, in his usually witty style, by Mark Steyn in the conservative magazine, National Review, entitled “But We’re Still Gonna Kill You.” Steyn writes: “Barack Obama has spent the last year doing bigtime…

It’s a heartening story just made for this season and the Western media: two seriously injured children, one Israeli and one Palestinian, becoming friends together in a hospital, with an innocence that transcends the hatred of their peoples. The New…

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-get-western-intellectuals-to.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Rubinreports+(RubinReports ) In 1937, at the peak of the purge trials (when thousands of people were arrested, tortured into making false confessions, and shot), after the government-made famines (when hundreds of thousands of people died), and as literally millions were…

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/12/dramatic-new-evidence-on-major-nidal.html This story seems to blow the lid off the killings at Fort Hood. Anwar al-Awlaki, a Muslim cleric who is a U.S. citizen now living in Yemen, says that the mass murdering major, Nidal Hasan, asked and was given…

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/11/breaking-news-tehran-oks-ten-uranium.html [Please subscribe for rapid analysis and focusing on the key developments.] Iran’s government announced a cabinet-level decision approving construction of ten new facilities to make enriched uranium, defying the United States and the UN. U.S. reaction so far? Please…

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-administrations-giant-problem-how.html [Please subscribe for original and real-time news and analysis] By Barry Rubin The Obama Administration now has a huge problem in its Israel-Palestinian policy about which no one is yet speaking. Since the White House lacks the stomach to…

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/11/hillarys-bombshell-obama-administration.html In a one-paragraph statement welcoming Israel’s ten-month-long freeze on building apartments in existing West Bank settlements, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a major statement. The dramatic new U.S. stance on Israel-Palestinian Authority peace agreement is camouflaged by brevity…

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/11/trouble-with-soft-diplomacy-endless.html In its own view, the Obama Administration has won a considerable foreign policy victory in the International Atomic Energy Agency vote to condemn Iran’s nuclear program. Winning such triumphs is the whole goal of a patient policy by the…

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/11/israels-construction-freeze-will.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Rubinreports+%28RubinReports%29 Finally, we know the long-awaited terms of the U.S.-Israel agreement on freezing construction on settlements. It is a good plan and represents a considerable, but well-crafted albeit unilateral concession by Israel. No licenses will be granted or apartments started…