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Warmongering Turkey trying to intimidate Cyprus as well

Tensions are not only mounting between Israel and Turkey since the release of the UN Palmer report… Continue reading

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Libya Begins to Fall Apart

On the front lines there are a lot of them, they are jihadists, dangerous, militant in their beliefs… Continue reading

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Will the CHP, Turkey’s Main Opposition Party, Ever Become a Relevant Political Alternative?

The Republican People’s Party (CHP), Turkey’s main opposition party, will have to adopt a whole new discourse and appropriate a new political… Continue reading

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Israel’s Strategic Situation: Plenty to Worry About But Little to Fear

Since much of what I write about regional politics seems pessimistic… Continue reading

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Erdogan’s War: Will Turkey’s Most Powerful Leader Since Ataturk Succeed in Securing the Country’s Unity?

Attacks carried out by Kurdish separatists since mid-July have set Turkey on the road to war… Continue reading

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Trying to Manage the Post-Qadhafi Libya While Qadhafi is Still Around

The United States has recognized the Transitional National Council (TNC) of Libya as the provisional government of that country… Continue reading

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What’s REALLY Happening in the Middle East Today

A few hours ago I wrote that the Egyptian military government reportedly told Israel that a major Israeli offensive… Continue reading

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Why an American Earthquake Is Propaganda for Middle Eastern Anti-Americans

It would not matter much if a small fringe of extremists believed this, but the size of that group will be far larger… Continue reading

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A Tale of Two Intellectuals: Treasuring or Despising Freedom

In a real sense, there was more intellectual freedom in the Arabic-speaking world in 1930 or 1940 then there is today… Continue reading

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Libya: The Dictator Has Fallen! Long Live….

As NATO jets bombed the military positions of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the watching rebels cheered… Continue reading

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Glenn Beck is Correct on the Middle East; Let’s Analyze Why That’s True

Any criticism one can make of Beck regarding Middle East issues rather pales in comparison to all of the above points on which he is quite correct… Continue reading

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Jesus Christ: The – politically correct – Way

A widely syndicated article by Reuters raises a number of important ethical questions about the media today… Continue reading

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Turkey and Syria: a Parting of Ways

The turmoil in Syria threatens to deprive Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party of one of its most significant foreign policy achievements… Continue reading

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Obama Administration Calls for End to Syrian Dictatorship But Reveals Its Own Worldview

After months of rebellion in Syria and heavy repression there, the Obama Administration has finally called for the downfall of… Continue reading

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PM Netanyahu Statement Following the Eilat Terror Attack

Those who gave the order to murder our citizens, while hiding in Gaza, are no longer among the living… Continue reading

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Instant obsolescence of the Turkish model

With the Turkish lira in free-fall, Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks less like a prospective Ottoman caliph than a garden-variety Third World strongman… Continue reading

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How Obama Administration’s Ideological Obsessions Trash U.S. Interests

I ask you to explore with me how the downfall of a great power is encapsulated in this passage… Continue reading

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Syria’s Revolution: A Bloodbath the West Cannot Ignore

There’s a real war going on with real massive human rights’ violations, real massacres, and real alternatives at stake… Continue reading

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Symbol of Egypt’s Revolution On Trial For Advocating Revolution

Asmaa Mahfouz, the April 6 Youth Movement leader who said she began the Egyptian revolution with a tweet… Continue reading

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Obama and Erdogan grant Assad 15 days to finish Syrian Uprising

Thursday night, Aug. 11, US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan agreed to set Syrian… Continue reading

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Egypt: Why Are Christian Girls Converting to Islam?

Few things in Islam are as liable to provoke passion and violence as the issue of conversion… Continue reading

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Spring comes, but not for Iraq’s Kurds

Amid widespread protests during this so-called “Arab Spring,” one place that has received relatively little media coverage is Iraqi Kurdistan… Continue reading

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Curbing Tehran’s Nuclear Ambitions: Tightening the Economic Noose

Are sanctions capable of derailing Tehran’s nuclear drive? Some skeptics reject such measures altogether… Continue reading

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Syria: The Orontes River runs red

Horrifying images of bodies and limbs floating in the Orontes River in Hama were aired by Syrian state television early Thursday… Continue reading

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Israel’s Grand Strategy: Deterring Iran’s Ballistic Missile Threat

Israel’s concept of national security has always been based on two interrelated factors… Continue reading