In a rare glimmer of good news from the vexed Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Israeli government has announced it will turn tax revenues over to the Palestinian Authority, allowing the Palestinians to meet payroll and cover some other basic expenses.  Holding the payments back was Israel’s response to the Palestinian quest for statehood at the UN.The […]

Stocks soared yesterday around the world after the Fed coordinated action to make sure troubled European banks could access dollars, and the financial crisis has eased — perhaps until Europe’s toxic mixture of political impasse and slow reaction time takes the world back to the edge of the abyss.At Via Meadia we are still wondering […]

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is becoming smaller and more dangerous.

Some perspective on the twilight of the Arab-Israeli peace process.