A New York Post op-ed contributor since late 2008, Benny Avni has covered America’s foreign policy and international affairs for various American and world publications since moving to New York in 1986. Before the Post, he was the New York Sun’s United Nations correspondent and world affairs columnist, breaking exclusive stories during the lead-up and the aftermath of the Iraq war and leading the UN press corps in exposing Turtle Bay corruption. A native of Israel, he has covered the Middle East beat since the 1970s.
Helping Syrians liberate their country from President Bashar Assad could make the months-long drive to defeat friendless Moammar Khadafy look like a cake walk. President Obama’s successful strategy for ousting Khadafy...
August 30, 2011 12:00 AM
After nearly three years of American indecision and failure, Libya is helping an Obama Doctrine to emerge. Call it the Goldilocks foreign policy -- not too hot, not too cold. Why? Success. Just in time for President...
August 26, 2011 12:00 AM
The Obama administration is finally showing some spine as it races to contain the Mideast crisis sparked by Thursday’s terrorist attack in southern Israel. Let’s hope Washington can keep it up -- for a widening of the...
August 22, 2011 12:00 AM
So the Obama administration is embracing a Corleone-style foreign policy -- Fredo Corleone. In “The Godfather II,” the wimpy brother insists: “I can handle things. I’m smart. Not like everybody says, like dumb. I’m...
August 18, 2011 12:00 AM
Sorry: The huge tent protest in Tel Aviv isn’t likely to bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, let alone threaten Israel’s stability. Since mid-July, protesters have occupied tents along prestigious, historic...
August 15, 2011 12:00 AM
One problem with “leading from behind,” as the Obama administration is wont to do, is that you need to find somebody to be behind . In the volatile Middle East, and especially in the case of Syria, President Obama is...
August 10, 2011 12:00 AM
Is President Obama ready to show some leadership on Syria? Any leadership? Even from behind? This week Syrian President Bashar Assad escalated his assault on his own citizens at Hama and other cities; the UN Security...
August 05, 2011 12:00 AMNorth Korea fooled us once. Shame on "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il. Now Washing ton is ready to let Pyongyang fool us again. Shame on us. On Friday, President Obama's point man on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth,...
August 01, 2011 12:00 AM
As Beijing flexes its muscles in the South China Sea, its frightened neighbors have been seeking our reassurance. Many have relied on America's protection for decades -- but now we're pointing at an international treaty...
July 28, 2011 12:00 AM
One natural reaction to Friday's atrocity in Oslo will be to redirect much of our attention -- and our limited anti-terrorism resources -- away from Islamist militants to the "blonde on blonde" menace. That would be...
July 25, 2011 12:00 AM
The more menacing North Korea becomes, the smaller its blip appears on our policy radar. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the foreign ministers at the Association of Southeastern Asian Nations' annual summit in...
July 22, 2011 12:00 AM
Lebanon and Israel are trying to resolve their maritime- border dispute peacefully -- for now. But the Hezbollah terrorists who control Lebanon are itching to turn it into a crisis that'll justify war -- if and when...
July 20, 2011 12:00 AM
Can the United Nations com mand the birth of a nation? South Sudan became the 193rd UN member yesterday. The Palestinians are striving to become the 194th this fall. Meanwhile, the Republic of China, or Taiwan -- a...
July 15, 2011 12:00 AM
When Leon Panetta moved from the CIA to the Pentagon last week, he listed his top priorities as defense secretary as defeating al Qaeda, forging a partnership with independent Iraq and coping with fast-shrinking...
July 12, 2011 12:00 AM
Hey, Turkey and Israel, can't we all get along? One thing's for sure: The United Nations isn't making that any easier. Even as Ankara and Jerusalem are trying to get over several years of hostilities, the United...
July 08, 2011 12:00 AM
Morocco moved in democracy's direction over the weekend, but unlike this winter's much ballyhooed revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, the world -- including the Obama administration -- barely noticed. Spring? Where?...
July 06, 2011 12:00 AM
The Israeli Defense Force will try to minimize it. "Human-rights activists" (shadowed by terrorists and racist skinheads) claim they don't want it. But as several ships of fools set sail on the Mediterranean this...
June 30, 2011 12:00 AM
On Monday, Bashar al-Assad told Syrians that if it weren't for a few agitators and terrorists, their lives could be beautiful and democracy would flourish. Then he went and shot some more protesters. That should...
June 23, 2011 12:00 AM
As President Obama tightens our "rela tions" with the mythical "interna tional community," our enemies and competitors are exploiting the Bush approach of building coalitions of the willing. Preferring small, ad...
June 20, 2011 12:00 AMBy giving Recep Tayyip Erdogan half of their votes this weekend, Turks sent their ambitious prime minister a mixed message: Yes, we love our political stability and prosperity, but no, don't mess too much with...
June 14, 2011 12:00 AM
Russia is blocking a Euro pean attempt at the UN Se curity Council to condemn the Syrian bloodbath and is widely expected in the next few days to kill it, if it needs to, by imposing a rare veto. Thus ends the...
June 10, 2011 12:00 AM
Syria's beleaguered President Bashar Assad thinks he's found a formula to end his troubles: Ignite the Israeli border. On Sunday, Assad's regime bused hundreds to areas near the Golan Heights 1967 cease-fire lines...
June 07, 2011 12:00 AM
An unprecedented attack yesterday on the presidential palace in San'a, Yemen, injured President Ali Abdullah Salah and his top allies -- just as Obama's chief anti-terrorism adviser, John Brennan, arrived in the region...
June 04, 2011 12:00 AM
The end-of-summer procla mation of a Palestinian state at the United Nations is so momentous, we hear almost daily, that Israel must make fresh concessions to avert it. Don't buy it. Yes, President Obama cautioned...
June 02, 2011 12:00 AM
Here's your multilateralism at work: Susan Rice, our UN ambassador and other members of the United Nations Security Council went to Africa to celebrate the coming peaceful independence of southern Sudan. Oops. Just...
May 27, 2011 12:00 AMPresident Obama says his call last week to base future Arab-Is raeli peace on Israel's 1967 bor ders -- lines that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considers "indefensible" -- was "misrepresented." But...
May 23, 2011 12:00 AMCan someone -- anyone -- launch a credible peace process between President Obama and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu? The most memorable lines from yesterday's joint press conference were Obama's...
May 21, 2011 12:00 AM
Up until now, when President Obama announced a "reset," he was simply try ing to "correct" his predecessor's erroneous path in the world. But now, concentrating on the Mideast this and early next week, Obama is...
May 18, 2011 12:00 AM
If we have a "responsibility to protect" the people of Libya, who are dying by the thousands, how can that same re sponsibility not apply to our southern neighbor, where the war between the drug lords and the...
May 16, 2011 12:00 AMThe twin pressures of the Arab Spring and the Iranian threat may finish off the Arab League -- and push another regional group, the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council, into a real Arab power- house. As President Obama...
May 14, 2011 12:00 AM
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