The West is sacrificing the safety and security of citizens for the sake of multiculturalism, but in order for multiculturalism to work, it must be a two-way street between people that share common values of respect of each other’s culture. Unfortunately, the West did not get that from Islam. Read more
Through the backdoor of an unreciprocated concern for the “other,” educated Westerners have allowed a hostile, bullying, honor-shame discourse to take over much of their public space. And as millions of refugees are thrown up on the shores of Europe, Western policymakers remain captive to suicidal memes that bespeak a profound ignorance of Arab and Muslim culture… Read more
The refugee crisis has exposed the abject failure of the EU, the UN, the OIC or anybody else to criticize the bloated Arab nations of the Gulf… Read more
Arabs are worried about Iran’s growing nuclear threat to the region… Read more
The Herzog-Livni duo is the last thing I would recommend to lead the state of Israel… Read more
Subjecting them to apartheid laws and strict security measures… Continue reading
How leaders manipulate the Arab people… Continue reading
Not Israel, but the Arab World as the central problem… Continue reading
The Arabic-speaking world is gearing up for a massive Sunni versus Shia bloodbath… Continue reading
The Mandate for Palestine was a legal commission for the administration of Palestine after the first World War… Continue reading
Using the Israel issue is so attractive and useful because there is a lot of popular support for this attitude… Continue reading
My main goal of forty years of Middle East analysis has been trying to explain the Middle East as it actually exists, how its politics work, and how its history can be understood… Continue reading
If 2011 was the year of the Arab Spring, 2013 looks to be the year of the Arab Fall… Continue reading
We are not just talking here about theological differences but a battle between individual leaders, organizations, and states for power and primacy… Continue reading
While “economic development” sounds like a great idea, in practice it isn’t so effective… Continue reading
Hussein Ibish is one of the more interesting Arab writers on regional affairs. Ibish critiques the idea that assumes the inexorable rise of Islamist parties… Continue reading
The more I think about Israel’s security situation at this moment, the better it looks… Continue reading
Now the initial euphoria about the Arab revolts has subsided, it’s clear the ‘Arab Spring’ will not bring a liberal, secular, Western (or Islamic) model of democracy to the Arab world… Continue reading
What do you tell soldiers who are risking their lives on Middle East battlefields about the people they are fighting for and against simultaneously?… Continue reading
Tariq Alhomayed wrote a column about the Arab hypocrisy in dealing with the ongoing slaughter in Syria by dictator Bashar al-Assad… Continue reading
Westerners tend to believe that the debate in the Arabic-speaking universe is sort of like debate in the West… Continue reading
I wonder how much higher are the number of visa applications from Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey to North America, Europe, and Australia… Continue reading
Many of the arguments and assumptions that governed the Arabic-speaking world for six decades have simply vanished… Continue reading
The political history of the modern Middle East can easily be divided into three eras… Continue reading
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