When I wrote about the exploding Palestinian-versus-Palestinian crisis last week, I hardly anticipated numerous messages about my “suggested peace plan.” Actually, I referenced more of an idea to break the logjam — a regional peace conference on the order of the Madrid summit of 1991 — than a plan.
One recent development that dovetails nicely with [...]

At least three scenarios peer through the internecine fog of the Palestinian imbroglio, which last week edged dangerously close to a civil war: reconciliation, co-existence and conflict.
First – and least probable – is the possibility that the major forces, Fatah and Hamas, will make nice. After all, Hamas burst onto the scene, cloaked in Islamic [...]

Stephen Sloan, the author or co-author of Terrorism: The Present Threat in Context, Corporate Aviation Security and other books, is a professor and fellow at the University of Central Florida. He discussed developments in the alleged plot to target New York City’s JFK International Airport with foreign-affairs columnist John C. Bersia.

Will Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cheer the Bush administration’s foreign-policy record as much in her next job as she did last week?
That question kept pushing others aside as I reviewed Rice’s spirited defense of how the Bush team has handled global affairs. She concluded that the world is a safer place today than it [...]

Learning of the “aha” moments in the aftermath of an alleged terror plot at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, I had to shake my head.
Many Americans appear genuinely surprised about the prospect of more grand-scale, “unthinkable” terrorism in the United States; that such violence apparently has a Caribbean connection (those charged have [...]