The United States has taken a political turn which at least for the next four years will guarantee that it does not play the role of a great power… Continue reading
What would you call it if a former vice-president of the United States had sold his television network to an Islamist television network at a time when such forces threatened America?… Continue reading
Around 1985, current al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri fled his homeland of Egypt, presumably never to return, he never forgot his original objective: transforming Egypt into an Islamist state that upholds and enforces the totality of Sharia law, and that works towards the resurrection of a global caliphate… Continue reading
The European Commission issued its most critical report on Turkey’s progress towards meeting the criteria for EU membership since accession negotiations were formally inaugurated in 2005… Continue reading
A small incident in an obscure court case in Minnesota shows why we need to understand properly the debate over Islam, Islamism, and Islamophobia… Continue reading
NATO’s May 20-21 heads-of-state summit in Chicago reminded everyone how Turkey is making important contributions to NATO in many key areas… Continue reading
The moral hypocrisy behind a boycott of Jewish West Bank settlements… Continue reading
Ironically, those opposing the current hegemonic ideas and political forces in the United States and Europe must develop a Marxist-style analysis of what has happened… Continue reading
Over the next several decades it gradually established itself in other European countries and became responsible for the spread of radical Islam in the West… Continue reading
Muslims who kill in the name of their religion frequently evade punishment in Western courts by pleading insanity or mental incompetence… Continue reading
Claude Guéant, the French interior minister, sparked a firestorm last month when he praised Western values as “superior” to the oppressive ones found elsewhere, namely the Islamic world… Continue reading
Here’s what you need to know about the current U.S. debate on energy… Continue reading
Born with the rise of Christianity and Roman Catholicism, anti-Jewish sentiment is an old and firmly entrenched phenomenon in Europe… Continue reading
India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar… Continue reading
I ran into an older, retired Israeli colleague who is a fine scholar in his field and agreed to have coffee in a nearby Tel Aviv cafe. In the ensuing conversation I learned some key things about why current intellectual and political discussion is such a wreck… Continue reading
The far left has at least temporarily won the battle of ideas in the United States and taken over institutions by pretending to be “liberal”… Continue reading
It is truly astonishing how, it often seems, how Western media coverage must blame Israel for everything that “goes wrong” in the Middle East… Continue reading
A little man stood on the stage in a British university hall… Continue reading
Western democracies have finally accepted censorship based on the clever lie that they are only protecting people from racism… Continue reading
This study examines the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and other Arab countries in the wake of the past year’s regional uprisings… Continue reading
The year 2011 saw a “regression toward the mean” in Turkey’s relation with the United States… Continue reading
It never ceases to amaze me that both liberals and conservatives in the American debate are missing the most important point… Continue reading
Turkey’s growing international profile has been controversial… Continue reading
As’ad AbuKahlil spoke last month at a day-long “teach-in” at the University of California… Continue reading
In a rare glimpse behind the curtain, a Palestinian scandal sheds a lot of light on the Palestinian Authority, Arab politics, and Western illusions… Continue reading
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