Middle East Strategy at Harvard

On June 4, U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a much-anticipated address to the world’s Muslims, from a podium at Cairo University.

The following MESH members responded to an invitation to comment on the speech: Michele Dunne, Bernard Heykal, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Mark T. Kimmitt, Martin Kramer, Walter Laqueur, Michael Mandelbaum, Michael Rubin, Harvey Sicherman, Philip Carl Salzman, Raymond Tanter, and Michael Young.

Update: More MESH members weigh in: Alan Dowty, Bruce Jentleson, and Michael Reynolds.

via Middle East Strategy at Harvard.

The End of America’s Strategic Alliance with Israel? – Caroline Glick – The Corner on National Review Online

The End of America’s Strategic Alliance with Israel? [Caroline Glick]

From an Israeli perspective, Pres. Barack Obama’s speech today in Cairo was deeply disturbing. Both rhetorically and programmatically, Obama’s speech was a renunciation of America’s strategic alliance with Israel.

Rhetorically, Obama’s sugar coated the pathologies of the Islamic world — from the tyranny that characterizes its regimes, to the misogyny, xenophobia, Jew hatred, and general intolerance that characterizes its societies. In so doing he made clear that his idea of pressing the restart button with the Islamic world involves erasing the moral distinctions between the Islamic world and the free world.

via The End of America’s Strategic Alliance with Israel? – Caroline Glick – The Corner on National Review Online.