Passport

Anti-Obama protest fail

I know it’s how Israel’s defense minister spells his name, but still… An Israeli right-wing activist holds a sign during a protest outside the US consulate in Jerusalem on the eve of US President Barak Obama’s trip to Egypt on June 3, 2009. GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.
585303_090603_barak2.jpg
585303_090603_barak2.jpg
An Israeli right-wing activist holds a sign during a protest outside the US consulate in Jerusalem on the eve of US President Barak Obama's trip to Egypt on June 3, 2009. On the eve of Obama's much-heralded address to the Muslim world, Israel was in deep unease that any reconciliation may come at the expense of the Jewish state. AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON (Photo credit should read GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images)

I know it's how Israel's defense minister spells his name, but still...

I know it’s how Israel’s defense minister spells his name, but still…

An Israeli right-wing activist holds a sign during a protest outside the US consulate in Jerusalem on the eve of US President Barak Obama’s trip to Egypt on June 3, 2009.

GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images

Joshua Keating is a former associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

Read More On Barack Obama | Israel | Media | Middle East and North Africa | Palestine

Latest

What Cities Can Tell Us About Geopolitics

The Original Authoritarian

Russia’s Military Cruelty Begins With Its Own Conscripts

Is There Such Thing as a Global South?

What Milei’s Dollarization Plan Would Mean for Argentina’s Economy
See All Stories

Editors’ Picks

  1. 1
    The Global Credibility Gap
  2. 2
    The Original Authoritarian
  3. 3
    The Shortest Path to Victory in Ukraine Goes Through Crimea
  4. 4
    Russia’s Military Cruelty Begins With Its Own Conscripts
  5. 5
    It’s Time to Reconsider Turkey’s NATO Membership
  6. 6
    Why Race Matters in International Relations

More from Foreign Policy

Children are hooked up to IV drips on the stairs at a children's hospital in Beijing.
Children are hooked up to IV drips on the stairs at a children's hospital in Beijing.

Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak

Authorities are covering up the spread of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia.

Henry Kissinger during an interview in Washington in August 1980.
Henry Kissinger during an interview in Washington in August 1980.

Henry Kissinger, Colossus on the World Stage

The late statesman was a master of realpolitik—whom some regarded as a war criminal.

A Ukrainian soldier in helmet and fatigues holds a cell phone and looks up at the night sky as an explosion lights up the horizon behind him.
A Ukrainian soldier in helmet and fatigues holds a cell phone and looks up at the night sky as an explosion lights up the horizon behind him.

The West’s False Choice in Ukraine

The crossroads is not between war and compromise, but between victory and defeat.

Illustrated portraits of Reps. MIke Gallagher, right, and Raja Krishnamoorthi
Illustrated portraits of Reps. MIke Gallagher, right, and Raja Krishnamoorthi

The Masterminds

Washington wants to get tough on China, and the leaders of the House China Committee are in the driver’s seat.

Trending

  1. How Will This War End? How Can the Next One be Prevented?
    Roundup
    Zaha Hassan, Daniel C. Kurtzer, Omar M. Dajani, Diana Buttu, Peter R. Mansoor, Daniel Levy, Ehud Olmert, Eugene Kontorovich, Elliott Abrams

  2. It’s Time to Reconsider Turkey’s NATO Membership
    Argument
    Sinan Ciddi

  3. Russia’s Military Cruelty Begins With Its Own Conscripts
    Argument
    Kristaps Andrejsons

  4. Is There Such Thing as a Global South?
    Analysis
    C. Raja Mohan

  5. The Original Authoritarian
    Review
    Daniel W. Drezner