Media, “experts,” and governments finds it very hard to understand an amazing phenomena… Continue reading
A widely syndicated article by Reuters raises a number of important ethical questions about the media today… Continue reading
One of the most sensitive aspects of the very sensitive subject of the murderous terrorist attack in Norway by… Continue reading
Last Friday morning, Anders Breivik burst onto the international screen when he carried out a monstrous act of terrorism against… Continue reading
A skinny guy and pretty young woman in a bikini are walking on the beach… Continue reading
In its 83-year existence, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has become the largest socio-religious movement… Continue reading
Listening to President Barack Obama talk about the administration’s Libya policy is a strange experience… Continue reading
On June 11, 2011 Somali police reported that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, one of Africa’s most wanted al-Qaeda operatives, was killed… Continue reading
Is there a pattern here? I guess I’m going to be writing a series of “things keep getting worse” articles for some time to come… Continue reading
To put it simply, what has happened in Egypt is not just the undoing of the “Mubarak regime” but the undoing of the “Sadat regime,” that is… Continue reading
Anti-Israeli organizations examine implementing propaganda displays based on flying large numbers of activists to Ben-Gurion Airport on commercial flights… Continue reading
The idea that President Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim is ridiculous… Continue reading
I think I’ve made a breakthrough in understanding President Barack Obama’s foreign policy of punishing friends, rewarding enemies, and… Continue reading
MEMRI has translated several Arab reactions to the “Nakba Day” marches on Israel’s border… Continue reading
A lot of people may think that I’m too tough on President Barack Obama and the New York Times. Yet every day they do something that… Continue reading
There is a grim irony to the fact that while the AKP’s 2007 victory represented a defeat for the military, victory four years later requires… Continue reading
Official release of President Obama’s Middle East and North Africa speech… Continue reading
On Thursday, President Obama will “reach out” yet again to what he insists on calling “the Muslim world.” Think of it as… Continue reading
Save this note. Last year I predicted that Egypt’s instability might well be the big story of 2011. Why wait until December… Continue reading
Perhaps the most important policymaking development of the last month has been President Barack Obama’s increasingly visible loss of… Continue reading
Why is U.S. and European policy toward the Middle East so off-base, and why do policymakers believe the strange things they think and… Continue reading
The most common question — or remark — that I get from readers is to say that I’m wrong to talk about how Western policymakers… Continue reading
One of my readers points out that last February I mockingly quoted the New York Times’ assurances that everything would be all right… Continue reading
To try to turn American liberals and Democrats — and especially Jews — against Israel on the pretext that they are only opposing Israel’s… continue reading
I have long thought that we are experiencing what might be called the Middle Easternization of the West but never fully understood it until… Continue reading
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Hello Mike, Thank you for your positive feedback to the article. I felt there wasn’t too much critical analysis of ...
Thanks for this considered and well constructed article. A follow up article on the manner in which the editorial contro...
THE CLUELESSNESS OF CLAIMING THAT OBAMA'S MIDDLE EAST POLICIES WERE A FAILURE CANNOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH, WHAT THE...
As long as Obama is the president of the usa do not trust the us government......
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