The changes in the region are producing more extremism, not more moderation… Continue reading
Despite Israeli concerns, Egypt’s regime eased travel restrictions for residents of Gaza, opening the Rafah crossing on the Egypt-Sinai-Gaza border… Continue reading
Since the United States is not leading the anti-Islamist forces in the Middle East and protecting the relatively moderate Arab states… Continue reading
In the West, moderate democracy — somewhere between social democrats and conservatives — trumps militant nationalism and religion… Continue reading
MEMRI has translated several Arab reactions to the “Nakba Day” marches on Israel’s border… Continue reading
A Muslim friend who I greatly respect wrote me that he doesn”t understand why I’ve been complaining about Obama’s speeches… Continue reading
After the Egyptian Revolution, this is what the Copts in Egypt get… Continue reading
Less than a month from now, Turkish citizens will go to the polls to cast their votes in the Republic’s seventeenth general election… Continue reading
Read Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks at the AIPAC Policy Conference 2011 here… Continue reading
Prediction: In September, President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy blows up in his (and our) face(s)… Continue reading
I expected President Barack Obama’s AIPAC speech would be a bunch of feel-good clichés to persuade the audience that he is… 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 are 20 Muslim-majority political entities in the Middle East — counting the Gaza Strip and West Bank separately… 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
Only twenty percent of Obama’s Middle East speech dealt with Israel-Palestinian issues and that only at the end. Clearly, this was… Continue reading
A day after President Obama’s speech on the Middle East and North Africa, where he spoke on the changes sweeping the region… Continue reading
President Barack Obama’s big Middle East speech is extraordinarily important. I think that it has been largely misinterpreted… Continue reading
Official release of President Obama’s Middle East and North Africa speech… Continue reading
President Obama’s latest paean to what he calls “the Muslim world,” delivered at the State Department today, was an exercise in whistling past the… Continue reading
IHH, which plays a central role in organizing the upcoming flotilla to the Gaza Strip, joined Turkish Islamist organizations in… Continue reading
Recently, it was revealed that President Barack Obama had consulted Tom Friedman in formulating his Middle East policy… Continue reading
Turkey faces what could be historic elections on June 12. Opinion polls suggest the ruling Justice and Development Party… Continue reading
The Flemish-language newspaper De Morgen has a major article about a survey of Muslim students in Brussels high schools… Continue reading
There’s an interesting point about pre-World War One Europe that applies very well to today’s international situation as well… 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
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