Many are the lessons to be learned between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the current revolutions of the Arab world… Continue reading
A group of terrorists has attacked Israel from Egyptian territory Monday morning. As for the presidential election, the Brotherhood candidate, Muhammad al-Mursi, seems the likely winner… Continue reading
There are three possible outcomes to the Syrian civil war… Continue reading
The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court has invalidated the parliamentary election there… Continue reading
Consider just a small part of what’s gone on in Tunisia, a relatively moderate country where the radical Islamists “only” got 40 percent of the vote… Continue reading
The threat of Radical Islam across America is very real issue and should not be trivialized by vilifying its opposition… Continue reading
Hardly surprising, deeply upsetting, and geostrategically catastrophic, it’s official. Turkey has now passed over towards being an Islamist state… Continue reading
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party is demonstrating an unwillingness to leave any room in society to those who are not its supporters… Continue reading
Egypt’s fate, I think, will not be settled by the June 16-17 second round presidential election… Continue reading
What happens when political ideology meets real people… Continue reading
While the Brotherhood claims victory, the election was actually a defeat for the Brotherhood and Islamism… Continue reading
Consider one fact that demolishes the apparatus of nonsense about moderate Islamists and the credibility of those claiming there is nothing to worry about… Continue reading
If I’ve ever seen a single sentence that spells disaster in the Middle East it’s this one… Continue reading
If you want a sense of where the Middle East is going, consider this viewpoint from an unlikely source… Continue reading
Countries may vary, but civilization is one, and for a nation to progress, it must take part in this one civilization… Continue reading
When a delegation of Syrian Kurdish rebels recently visited Washington DC, the State Department met them to ask for a favor. What was it?… Continue reading
It’s once again time for that exciting game of Spin the Polls by the Pew Foundation. Here are the rules… Continue reading
We all know that the number of Muslims who explicitly put forward a systematically coherent moderate theology of Islam is very small… Continue reading
However, unfortunately, we have no voice among the so-called progressive leftists… Continue reading
Michael Hirsh has responded to my critique of his article. Amazingly, yet typical of our era, he didn’t engage with a single—not a single—idea I presented… Continue reading
Suppose you read in the Washington Post about a democratic politician who was a refugee from persecution by a dictatorship. Would you be surprised to learn that he was in fact a vicious antisemite… Continue reading
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THE CLUELESSNESS OF CLAIMING THAT OBAMA'S MIDDLE EAST POLICIES WERE A FAILURE CANNOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH, WHAT THE...
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