The death of an Iranian blogger during his prison sentence sparked a public controversy in Iran… Continue reading
The Obama Administration is secretly negotiating with Iran… Continue reading
The Syrian crisis is a good test of the strength of the Russia-Turkish detente… Continue reading
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, proposed that the crisis in Syria be addressed through diplomatic methods and called for the establishment of an international mechanism for dialogue… Continue reading
It is obvious that the Syrian National Council was a Muslim Brotherhood front group, yet the Obama Administration backed it any way… Continue reading
The chickens have come back to roost and have roosted in the White House. And the vultures are gathering…. Continue reading
While “economic development” sounds like a great idea, in practice it isn’t so effective… Continue reading
President Abdullah Gül criticized the government of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan for its failure to push ahead with Turkey’s bid for EU membership and protested the continuing imprisonment of seven elected opposition members of the assembly… Continue reading
The Turkish government appears to hope to deter the continued Syrian – and Iranian – deployment of the Kurdish card against Turkey… Continue reading
Turkish-Azerbaijani relations have been on the rebound in recent months since the Turkish-Armenian reconciliation effort has effectively collapsed over differences… Continue reading
The sentences in the Sledgehammer trial demonstrate the subjugation of the military to civilian, democratic, legal authority… Continue reading
As a follow up to the February 23, 2012 article of Brenda West on Shoaib Choudhury, the fake “Muslim Zionist,” Brenda wrote this article about Choudhury’s American promoter, Richard Benkin, who also has a long history of fraud and exploitation, including his fellow Jews… Continue reading
Focus is everything — knowing what the central problem is, and dealing with it… Continue reading
The closer one gets to ground level in the Middle East, the crazier things become… Continue reading
A short history of democracy in Egypt… Continue reading
So can you write “Arab Spring,” free elections, democracy in Egypt, and such things 100 times?… Continue reading
One of the mantras from Israel’s supposed foreign well-wishers is that the country is now “isolated.” Sure, on the surface this makes sense… Continue reading
Ammar Abdulhamid may know more about Syria’s civil war than anyone else in the world. That’s no exaggeration. Barry Rubin interviewed Abdulhamid on the latest developments and trends… Continue reading
During a recent dinner in Amman, Prime Minister Fayez Tarawneh of Jordan talked about me at some length, citing my PJ Media article on Israel being in a good strategic situation. Apart from the name-calling, insults, and snorting, he could not refute one point I made… Continue reading
A 35-man seemingly bedouin terrorist team invaded an Egyptian army base in eastern Sinai, stole a truck and armored personnel carrier, and tried to crash the Israel border gate… Continue reading
In the wake of the upheavals that have shaken the Arab world since December 2010, activists, politicians, and analysts have all been searching for new, democratic models of governance that could come into force in these lands… Continue reading
Prior to Egypt’s presidential elections, Islamists made clear that the electoral process was an obligatory form of “holy war”… Continue reading
The decision of the heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Beijing to designate Turkey a formal dialogue partner of the organization is yet another sign of recognition of Turkey’s growing influence in Central and South Asia… Continue reading
The interesting news was not that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was pelted with stuff while visiting Cairo, the important issue was who was doing the pelting… Continue reading
The tide seems to be turning in Syria… Continue reading
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