Posted on Wed, January 30, 2013 at 21:52 pm CET
Post Pic

U.S. Military Leaders Oppose Chuck Hagel Nomination

Former U.S. Generals and Admirals oppose Obama’s pick for secretary of defence… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Obamaism • Politics • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Wed, January 30, 2013 at 17:12 pm CET
Post Pic

Why Do Americans – Especially Among the Contemporary Elite – Believe Their Country is Evil?

The American elite has convinced itself and a large portion of the country’s youth that America’s whole history is evil… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Europe • France • History • Islamophobia • Obamaism • Political Correctness • United States of America • Western Culture 
Posted on Tue, January 29, 2013 at 20:42 pm CET
Post Pic

U.S. Intelligence Writes Turkey’s Future

U.S. intelligence community ponders the impact of Turkey’s growing significance in global affairs… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Economy • NATO • Turkey • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Mon, January 28, 2013 at 20:29 pm CET
Post Pic

Secretary of State Kerry Shows He Doesn’t Have a Clue About How Foreign Policy Works

Kerry isn’t just wrong, he’s totally clueless… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Semitism • Diplomacy • Egypt • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Obamaism • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Sun, January 27, 2013 at 20:03 pm CET
Post Pic

The AKP’s New Dialogue with Öcalan: A Process but Which Process?

The AKP is conducting a “psychological war” rather than sincerely trying to solve the Kurdish Issue… Continue reading

Topics: Iraqi Kurdistan • Kurdish People • PKK • Syrian Kurdistan • Turkey • Turkish Kurdistan 
Posted on Sun, January 27, 2013 at 18:44 pm CET
Post Pic

Western Leftists Back Islamists; Arab Counterparts Are Their Victims

The Western left were for decades apologists for repression carried out by the USSR, Soviet bloc, and other communist dictatorships, and now they are apologists for Islamist repression carried out against Arab leftists… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Multiculturalism • Political Correctness 
Posted on Sat, January 26, 2013 at 16:39 pm CET
Post Pic

Algerian Hostage Crisis Ends with Military Assault: So How is Al-Qaida Dead?

An organization that can seize about 1,000 hostages in the middle of Algeria, a country whose regime has been so tough on radical Islamists, is not dead… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Algeria • Islamic Terrorism • Maghreb • Religion • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, January 26, 2013 at 15:58 pm CET
Post Pic

What Difference Does It Make that Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Care Why Terrorists Killed Americans in Libya?

Clinton’s show of indifference isn’t just a question of distracting attention or callousness, it is a clear symptom of exactly what is wrong with the Obama Administration’s handling of this and other issues… Continue reading

Topics: Islamism • Libya • Obamaism • Security and Defense • United States of America 
Posted on Sat, January 26, 2013 at 15:03 pm CET
Post Pic

Understanding Israel’s Politics and 2013 Election

It was clear before the balloting in Israel that the claims that the population was moving to the right and that democracy in Israel was imperiled, were flatly wrong… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Israel • Politics 
Posted on Sat, January 26, 2013 at 12:33 pm CET
Post Pic

Anti-Islamism in an Islamic Civil War

The notion of a Sunni-Shi’ite conflict is not the only perceived dichotomy at play in the Syrian civil war… Continue reading

Topics: Alawis • History • Religion • Shi'ism • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Tue, January 22, 2013 at 22:17 pm CET
Post Pic

Israel’s Election: An Analysis

Israel’s election results show that Israelis have a basic consensus and yet have very different ways of expressing their political positions… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Democracy • Israel • Jewish Life • Politics 
Posted on Tue, January 22, 2013 at 21:40 pm CET
Post Pic

Won’t Syria Be Obama’s Main Middle East Crisis in 2013?

The Syrian civil war will go on until one side wins and the other loses. And a lot more people are going to die… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, January 16, 2013 at 19:58 pm CET
Post Pic

Murdered Diplomacy: How the Israel-Palestinian Conflict Has Been Totally Transformed

If the Israel-Palestinian situation were to be considered to be like a hand grenade, the “international community” has just pulled the pin and thrown it away… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Diplomacy • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Palestinian Authority • Peace Process • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy • United Nations 
Posted on Wed, January 16, 2013 at 18:08 pm CET
Post Pic

WikiLeaks: Malian President Addresses Diplomatic Corps on Northern Mali

Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure followed his annual formal New Year,s greeting to the diplomatic corps with a lengthy private discourse on the problems he is facing in the north of Mali… Continue reading

Topics: Maghreb • Mali • Security and Defense • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Wed, January 16, 2013 at 17:33 pm CET
Post Pic

WikiLeaks: Mali Government Released “Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb” Detainees

Malian newspaper l’Independant carried a front page news story stating that Mali’s Government released four AQIM detainees… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • France • Maghreb • Mali • Security and Defense • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Wed, January 16, 2013 at 17:08 pm CET
Post Pic

WikiLeaks: Malian Security Service Arrests Cheibani Ould Hama

Cheibani has been accused of various kidnappings and terrorist killings… Continue reading

Topics: Maghreb • Mali • Saudi Arabia • Security and Defense • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Mon, January 14, 2013 at 19:40 pm CET
Post Pic

Understanding Israel’s January 22 Election

After decades of misunderstanding Israeli politics, I can say that nothing has changed in this regard… Continue reading

Topics: Israel • Politics 
Posted on Sun, January 13, 2013 at 18:43 pm CET
Post Pic

Hezbollah: Portrait of a Terrorist Organization

Hezbollah has a 30-year history of terrorist activity in Lebanon, the Middle East and around the globe, directed against Israel, the Jewish people, the United States and the West, pro-Western Arab states and Hezbollah’s enemies in Lebanon… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Christianism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • Global Jihad • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamic Terrorism • Jew-Hatred • Lebanon • Security and Defense • Shia Islam 
Posted on Sun, January 13, 2013 at 18:42 pm CET
Post Pic

Hezbollah’s Terrorist Activity, 2000-2012

Hezbollah has actively participated in the worldwide anti-Israeli campaign of terrorism led by Iran’s Qods Force, attempting to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli diplomats and tourists… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Christianism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • Global Jihad • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamic Terrorism • Jew-Hatred • Lebanon • Religion • Security and Defense • Shia Islam 
Posted on Sun, January 13, 2013 at 18:41 pm CET
Post Pic

Hezbollah’s Terrorist Activities during the 1990s

In the 1990s Hezbollah combined terrorist attacks in Israeli territory and overseas with guerilla warfare against the IDF in the Lebanese security zone and sporadic rocket fire at Israel… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • Argentina • Global Jihad • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamic Terrorism • Jew-Hatred • Lebanon • Religion • Security and Defense • Shia Islam 
Posted on Sun, January 13, 2013 at 18:40 pm CET
Post Pic

Hezbollah’s Terrorist Activities during the 1980s

Hezbollah’s terrorist activity during the first years of its existence focused on the United States and France, the main targets of a wave of terrorist attacks in Lebanon and elsewhere… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Christianism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • France • Global Jihad • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamic Terrorism • Jew-Hatred • Kuwait • Lebanon • Religion • Security and Defense • Shia Islam 
Posted on Fri, January 11, 2013 at 01:31 am CET
Post Pic

Ankara’s Unacknowledged Genocide

The Ottoman Empire tolerated the existence of vast non-Muslim subject populations in its midst, provided they acknowledged their legal and institutional inferiority in the Islamic order of things. When these groups dared to question their subordinate status, they were brutally suppressed, and none more so than the Armenians… Continue reading

Topics: Armenian Genocide • History • Ottoman Empire • Religion • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, January 10, 2013 at 20:44 pm CET
Post Pic

Why the Current U.S. Foreign Policy Debate Doesn’t Make Sense and How to Fix It

Something very bad is happening with the U.S. foreign policy debate… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Liberalism • Obamaism • Politics • Security and Defense • United States of America 
Posted on Thu, January 10, 2013 at 18:29 pm CET
Post Pic

Israel’s Arabs: Deprived or Radicalized?

Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Anti-Zionism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Culture • Diplomacy • History • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Palestinian Arabs • Pro-Palestinianism • Zionism 
Posted on Tue, January 8, 2013 at 19:25 pm CET
Post Pic

Noxious Nominations: The Four Horsemen of the American Foreign Policy Apocalypse

I did a lot of soul-searching before writing my latest article, yet within hours after its publication I concluded that I hadn’t been too pessimistic… Continue reading

Topics: Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Obamaism • Politics • United States of America