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Computer-generated actors, Syrians and Israelis, are coming together in unlikely times of warmongering. They are reopening a dim flashlight of discussions, yet this time on the virtual world of endless possibilities where the invisible hand of censorship cannot reach. They do not need a passport to move around in disguise for secret talks and they believe their story is worth telling.

The Tea Party wants small government, right? Actually, it's not so simple. In fact, you could drive a Bradley tank right through an ideological schism within the Tea Party.

Zbigniew Brzezinski advised Obama to present his own “final status” plan for a PA state. Obama said little. Where there is smoke, there is fire?

Rumors of Afghani President Hamid Karzai's drug use in the wake of his inflammatory anti-American comments are highly suspect. While it is true that Karzai has an insatiable appetite for chewing pure hashish bricks, it would be hard to tie this activity to the insane gibberish he decided to announce to his people after meeting with the president of the United States two weeks ago. Drugs are merely an excuse for being a self-destructive asshole. Stating that the U.S.

It is rare that anything related to the Middle East makes me laugh at loud. But the new film, Just Like Us, starring and directed by the Egyptian-American comedian and actor Ahmed Ahmed, had me laughing until it hurt.

The film, a comic documentary, is about a bunch of stand-up comics who took their act to Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Egypt and Lebanon essentially to determine if Arabs have a sense of humor.

Somewhere in Europe, Sonya Mousa is breathing a sigh of relief.

Or so I'm guessing. I've never met or spoken with Sonya Mousa. But, last week when I was wrapping up my coverage of the Anat Kam case - the Israeli journalist under secret house arrest since December over allegedly leaked military documents - and thinking about using a pseudonym, this was the first name that came to mind.

If nothing else comes of it, you've got to admit that the health reform movement has given a lot of people a very detailed education about the sausage-making process in Washington. Remember when the word "reconciliation" was universally understood to mean "getting back together" instead of "open partisan warfare," for instance? The tortuous process health reform has wound in its progress from where we were a year ago to where we stand today at least provided many "teachable moments" on how things actually happen in Washington.

American Vice President Joe Biden was sucker-punched last week by a provocative settlement announcement for 1,600 new units in occupied East Jerusalem (and 50,000 more planned for Jerusalem alone). It's the much-practiced welcome provided by Israeli proponents of illegal settlement activity. Biden condemned the measure. But it is too little, too late. The two-state solution has slipped away from the Americans and the Israelis though they seem blissfully unaware, after more than four decades of undisturbed illegal settlement.

"Do you suffer from ANIS?"
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