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A Usurpation of National Sovereignty
NationalReview.com, Feb. 10, 2010
Netanyahu Surprises at 10th Annual Herzliya Conference
Pajamasmedia.com, Feb. 4, 2010
Blaming Israel First
The Weekly Standard, Jan. 18, 2010
Going Backwards in Beirut
The Weekly Standard, Nov. 30, 2009
Obama's Middle East Gambit
The Weekly Standard, Sept. 28, 2009
Bibi's Choice
The Weekly Standard, July 13, 2009
Downwind from Iran: Why They're Nervous in the Gulf
The Weekly Standard, Apr. 6, 2009
Waltzing Among the Rockets
The Weekly Standard, Feb. 16, 2009
An Unfortunate Israeli Export
The Weekly Standard, Sept. 29, 2008
Plans for Mideast Peace: U.N. Reform Needed for Palestinian Refugees
The Washington Times, Aug. 5, 2008
Peaceless
A review of The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller
Policy Review, Aug./Sept. 2008
Answering Edward Said
A review of Defending the West by Ibn Warraq
Policy Review, June/July 2008
The Iranian Threat Won't Just Go Away
The Jerusalem Report, Mar. 18, 2008
The Neocons and Iraq
The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 16, 2008
Ehud Olmert's Israel
The Weekly Standard, Feb. 4, 2008
Oy Vey!: Israel Contemplates Its Political Leaders
The Weekly Standard, Feb. 5, 2007
Israel After Sharon
The Weekly Standard, Feb. 6, 2006
Ariel Sharon's Legacy
The Weekly Standard, Jan. 16, 2006
A Worthy War Critic
A review of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
Policy Review, Oct./Nov. 2005
Eye on 2007: Kuwait's Women Prepare for Their First Election
The Weekly Standard (online exclusive), July 8, 2005
Liberty First, Democracy Later
Haaretz, June 10, 2005
They've Kuwaited Long Enough
The Weekly Standard (online exclusive), May 4, 2005
Rules of Disengagement
The Weekly Standard (online exclusive), Dec. 17, 2004
Destructive Decision
The New York Sun, July 12, 2004, p. 9
Demography and Security in Israel
[This originally appeared in the June 14 issue of The Weekly Standard under a title that inadvertently encouraged opinions about the issue at variance with the tone and argument of the article.]
June 5, 2004
The Case for the War in Iraq
The Stanford Daily News and syndicated by Knight-Ridder as a Hoover Institution Weekly Essay, Apr. 16, 2004
Israel's House Divided
The Weekly Standard, Apr. 12/19, 2004
Fukuyama in Tel Aviv
The Weekly Standard (online exclusive), Mar. 19, 2004
An Oasis: Kuwaiti Women Make Progress
National Review Online, Mar. 3, 2004
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
The Weekly Standard, Mar. 1, 2004
Reclash of Civilizations
The Boston Globe, Feb. 15, 2004
The Liberal Arts in Kuwait
The Weekly Standard (online exclusive), Jan. 28, 2004
The Israeli Summit: Talking National Security in Herzliya
National Review Online, Dec. 19, 2003
Democracy in Kuwait
The Weekly Standard (online exclusive), July 11, 2003
Hypocrisy at the U.N.
The Weekly Standard, Mar. 24, 2003, pp. 17-18
Hamilton, Madison and Jay in Jerusalem
The Weekly Standard, Dec. 2, 2002