Posted on Mon, February 11, 2013 at 15:09 pm CET
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A Look Back at Forty Years of Middle East Analysis

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

Topics: Arab World • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Culture • History • Islamic Countries • Israel • Palestinian Arabs • Politics • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, December 18, 2012 at 23:55 pm CET
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Egypt “Democratically” Adopts an Anti-Western Dictatorship

What are the next steps for Mursi?… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Tue, December 11, 2012 at 21:05 pm CET
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Mishandling Mursi

Only a week after being praised by the Obama Administration for his supposed helpfulness in ending the fighting in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, Egyptian President Mursi apparently decided to cash in his praise “chips” early… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Obamaism • Political Correctness • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, December 11, 2012 at 18:35 pm CET
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A Turning Point in Egypt: Not on Direction But on the Speed of Islamist Transformation

A critical moment has arrived for Egypt. But what does it mean?… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Fri, November 23, 2012 at 21:58 pm CET
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Egypt’s Islamist President Assumes Dictatorial Powers

Egypt’s President Morsi assumes sweeping powers, branded new pharaoh… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Religion • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, February 22, 2012 at 20:14 pm CET
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From UN Watch: Pakistan and Chavez Running for Seat on Top UN Rights Body

The governments of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Pakistan are slated to run unopposed for seats on the UN’s 47-nation Human Rights Council this year… Continue reading

Topics: Human Rights • Pakistan • United Nations • Venezuela 
Posted on Fri, February 10, 2012 at 17:56 pm CET
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The Essence of Contemporary Leftism And Islamism Revealed: Freedom or Slavery to Those Who Claim to Know Best?

This fascinating exchange tells us not only about the contemporary state of Islam, Islamism, and the political issues involving them but also about the debates and conflicts shaping Western civilization today… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Human Rights • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Religion 
Posted on Wed, December 14, 2011 at 19:18 pm CET
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My Critique of Two “Neo-Conservative” Presidents: Obama and Bush

A Huffington Post writer with no known expertise on the Middle East, has accused me of being not only an alarmist about revolutionary Islamism but also as a “neo-con… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Democracy • Iran • Iraq • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Tue, August 23, 2011 at 00:15 am CEST
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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

Topics: Democracy • Libya • Libya War • NATO 
Posted on Sat, August 20, 2011 at 20:23 pm CEST
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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

Topics: Arab Spring • Economy • Iran • Kurdish People • PKK • Security and Defense • Syria • Syrian Kurdistan • Turkey • Turkish Kurdistan 
Posted on Fri, August 19, 2011 at 23:57 pm CEST
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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

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Syria • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, August 10, 2011 at 20:57 pm CEST
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Turkey: Two More Steps Toward Islamism

In Washington DC they are still ridiculing the idea that Turkey’s government is Islamist… Continue reading

Topics: Islamism • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, July 14, 2011 at 01:02 am CEST
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Obama Era Updates Famous Charles Atlas, “97 Pound Weakling” Ad

A skinny guy and pretty young woman in a bikini are walking on the beach… Continue reading

Topics: Satire • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, July 6, 2011 at 20:48 pm CEST
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Syria: The Obama Administration’s Favorite Murderous Dictatorship

The Syrian regime has been killing and repressing its people every day for many weeks now… Continue reading

Topics: Syria • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, May 12, 2011 at 19:34 pm CEST
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Great Moments in American Diplomacy: Getting Killer Dictators to Have An “Alternative Vision” of Themselves

I don’t have to write anything to make fun of current U.S. Middle East policy. All I have to do is quote administration officials… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Syria • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 19:33 pm CEST
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Syria: Who Needs a Propaganda Operation When You Have the New York Times?

To be immoral is bad; to be immoral against your own interests is worse… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Syrian Revolution • The Media 
Posted on Sat, April 30, 2011 at 23:57 pm CEST
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Obama Administration: Eager to Save Syria’s Anti-American Dictator

Before I remark on the idiotic analysis of the day, I have to write a disclaimer. Up to now I usually don’t remark on… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, April 26, 2011 at 01:05 am CEST
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Syria: Crackdown Begins; West Does Nothing

As I predicted yesterday, the Syrian government has now started a full-scale violent crackdown against oppositionists… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Human Rights • Syrian Revolution • The Media • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Mon, April 25, 2011 at 19:44 pm CEST
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Warning: Middle East Analysis Gone Wild…ly Inaccurate

OK. I admit it. It’s hopeless. When prestigious newspapers can’t get the most basic points about the Middle East correct… Continue reading

Topics: Syria • Syrian Revolution • The Middle East • Turkey 
Posted on Mon, April 25, 2011 at 15:18 pm CEST
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Syria’s Biggest Crisis in 40 Years

Today [April 23] Syria has entered its biggest internal crisis since 1970. The regime has come out to crush the… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Syria • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, March 31, 2011 at 00:39 am CEST
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Syria: Bashar al-Assad to Demonstrators: Surrender or Die

Nowadays, Western officials and journalists seem to think nowadays that if you are a Middle East dictator and people start demonstrating… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Mon, March 28, 2011 at 17:16 pm CEST
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The Obama Administration Will Do Zero to Criticize or Undermine the Syrian Dictatorship

It’s official. The Obama Administration won’t do anything at all to help the Syrian people against the Bashar al-Asad dictatorship… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, March 15, 2011 at 18:54 pm CET
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What Should U.S. Policy be Toward the Current Middle East Situation?

People ask me what the United States should be doing toward the upheavals in the Middle East. Here’s a short, quick list of themes… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Islamism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, March 12, 2011 at 19:31 pm CET
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Arab Political Upheavals: Obsession with Israel Blinded Westerners to the Real Middle East

As we consider the lessons of the dramatic upheavals in Arabic-speaking countries one of the main ones is this: the overriding obsession with… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Islamic Countries • Islamism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • The Middle East 
Posted on Tue, February 22, 2011 at 17:41 pm CET
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Libyan Ambassadors Resign Posts to Protest Bloody Crackdown

The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday Libyan diplomats all over the world resigned from their positions, in protest a bloody crackdown against… Continue reading

Topics: Arab League • Arab Spring • Bangladesh • Democracy • Human Rights • Indonesia • Libya • Libya War • Malaysia • The Middle East