On Monday, President Obama will sit down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. With a showdown looming over Iran, their summit will not only be the most important meeting for either leader but it may also be the most consequential meeting for the entire Middle East since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s 1993 handshake with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.

Mubarak's time in power is coming to an end, hopefully the outcome and emerging President can be something the US can live with.

Mubarak's fall will have even deeper reverberations throughout the region than Ben Ali's did. Which will be the next dominoes to drop?

The value of the Egyptian alliance is less than meets the eye.

The great surprise is not that millions took to the streets in Egypt but rather that the United States had for so long predicated its regional security on Mubarak.

Advice on the State of the Union. No charge.

Michael Rubin evaluates the usefulness of three recent books about the Middle East.

What happens when U.S.-backed dictators around the world die?