Where is Obama’s grand vision?
For a man who reveres Abraham Lincoln, President Barack Obama has shown little inspiration in his foreign policy, especially in the Middle East.
For a man who reveres Abraham Lincoln, President Barack Obama has shown little inspiration in his foreign policy, especially in the Middle East.
Israel killed the leader of an al Qaeda-inspired faction in the Gaza Strip on Friday, accusing him of involvement in firing rockets and a planned attack on the Jewish state from the neighboring Egyptian Sinai.
Israel will not negotiate with a \”Palestinian version of Al-Qaida\”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday.
All this doesn\’t mean Israel and the West shouldn\’t take note of and act on legitimate grievances in the Muslim world. There is no good reason to add to the pool of angry or disenfranchised Muslims willing to fall for bin Laden\’s hellfire and brimstone. But Raymond Ibrahim\’s solid research should serve as a corrective to those demagogues who would have the world believe that terrorism begins and ends with Israel.