How the Assad regime has managed to survive the revolution, for the time being and in contrast to other recent upheavals in the Middle East… Continue reading
Much has been made of the Palestinian exodus of 1948. Yet during their decades of dispersal, the Palestinians have experienced no less traumatic ordeals at the hands of their Arab brothers… Continue reading
The Mandate for Palestine was a legal commission for the administration of Palestine after the first World War… Continue reading
A report on the alleged aggressions by the Arab states in the period just before the Israeli War of Independence… 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
The massacre of the Ottoman Armenians helped persuade the Nazis to exterminate national minorities as well… Continue reading
One of the main features of misguided contemporary foreign policy debate is the corruption of the concept of Realism… Continue reading
Canadian aboriginal tells Palestinian Arabs to stop claiming commonality with them… Continue reading
The American elite has convinced itself and a large portion of the country’s youth that America’s whole history is evil… Continue reading
The notion of a Sunni-Shi’ite conflict is not the only perceived dichotomy at play in the Syrian civil war… Continue reading
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
Supersessionism refers to the belief that Christians have superseded Jews in a new covenant with God. Islam, too, sees itself as superseding all previous divine revelation but, unlike Christianity, Islam freely erases history itself… Continue reading
Whatever your view of religion, the Bible is a terrific source for history and political analysis… Continue reading
The United Nations General Assembly voted, as expected, in favor of upgrading the Palestinians’ status to that of a non-member observer state. Prior to Thursday’s vote, Ambassador of Israel to the UN Ron Prosor addressed the UN General Assembly… Continue reading
The more things change, the more they remain the same… Continue reading
UN: Palestine is Now a Non-Member State; Reality: Palestine Will Continue to be a Non-Existent State
The UN will give Palestine the status of a non-member state. The only thing that will change is to convince people even more that they are following a clever and successful strategy. They aren’t… Continue reading
Recent scholarship has highlighted Nazi aims in the Middle East, including the intent to murder the Jewish population of Palestine, the relationship between the Nazi state and Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, as well as the postwar place of the Holocaust in Arab and Muslim thinking… Continue reading
The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds… Continue reading
Recently there has been a controversy when State Department spokespeople refused to say what they thought to be Israel’s capital. To understand this issue we need to understand that there are two different issues involved… Continue reading
Bill Harris is one of the world’s leading authorities on Lebanon. In this interview he discusses politics there; the possibilities of war with Israel; how Western policy let down the moderates; and the dramatic effects of the Syrian civil war on that neighboring country… Continue reading
Obama came into office with a theory on which he based his Middle East policy. His theory was that jihadists hate America because the US supports Israel… Continue reading
According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids… Continue reading
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