Posted on Sun, May 22, 2011 at 18:28 pm CEST
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U.S. Policy: To Understand the Middle East Why Not Study The Real Middle East?

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

Topics: Arab Spring • Islamism • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, May 22, 2011 at 17:14 pm CEST
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Arab Spring: What Does It Really Mean?

There are 20 Muslim-majority political entities in the Middle East — counting the Gaza Strip and West Bank separately… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, May 20, 2011 at 21:38 pm CEST
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Obama’s Middle East Speech: The Opposite of Strategy Is Catastrophe

President Barack Obama’s big Middle East speech is extraordinarily important. I think that it has been largely misinterpreted… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Islamism • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Muslim Brotherhood • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, May 20, 2011 at 01:43 am CEST
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President Obama’s Middle East and North Africa Speech, May 19, 2011

Official release of President Obama’s Middle East and North Africa speech… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Islamic Countries • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Maghreb • Palestinian Authority • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Fri, May 20, 2011 at 00:00 am CEST
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Obama’s Muslim Outreach 2.0: Doing business with the Muslim Brotherhood

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

Topics: Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Muslim Brotherhood • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:43 pm CEST
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Egypt: Amr Moussa Vows Tough Israel Policy if Elected President

Amr Moussa, the outgoing Arab League chief and leading candidate for Egypt’s presidency, said Friday that if elected he would break with… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Israel 
Posted on Fri, May 6, 2011 at 22:47 pm CEST
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Syria: Why Are Western Governments Protecting Their Worst Enemy…While Trashing Their Friends

Here’s an unavoidable question: Why is it that when a relatively moderate Middle East state is threatened by demonstrations… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, May 5, 2011 at 01:20 am CEST
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Mass Media Nonsense and Western Blindness

It is amazing what nonsense appears in the mass media. Consider the following paragraph from a Washington Post story… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Britain • Fatah • Hamas • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • The Media 
Posted on Mon, April 25, 2011 at 19:17 pm CEST
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Syria: Who Is the Opposition and When Is The Moment of Truth?

There’s a bit of a mystery regarding Syria. First, who is the opposition? Second, what will happen… Continue reading

Topics: Alawis • Christianity • Sunni Islam • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Wed, April 13, 2011 at 17:15 pm CEST
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Reading Ahmadinejad in Riga

There’s nothing like having to explain a complex subject to people to improve one’s own understanding of the issues… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Communism • Egypt • Europe • Iran • Islamism • Latvia • Russian Federation • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, April 7, 2011 at 18:29 pm CEST
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How Many Points did Iran and Islamists Score So Far this Year?

Events in the Middle East have moved so quickly that one almost needs a daily scorecard to keep up. This article will try to give a basic picture… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • Egypt • Hamas • Iran • Islamism • Lebanon • Libya • Muslim Brotherhood • Palestinian Authority • Peace Process • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Tunisia • Turkey • U.S. Middle East Policy • Yemen 
Posted on Sat, April 2, 2011 at 19:33 pm CEST
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Syrian Revolution Takes Off – Where is American Support?

As of today, one can say that the revolution in Syria must be taken seriously. Not only were the demonstrations large but also they… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, April 1, 2011 at 20:53 pm CEST
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Libya Is To Obama as Iraq Was to Bush

This is what happens when the United States gets involved in a war without knowing what’s going on beforehand… Continue reading

Topics: Libya War • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, March 30, 2011 at 21:17 pm CEST
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Multiple Crises – Yemen Next

Since the ousting of Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt’s Husni Mubarak, the change Yemen is undergoing is lost in the dramatic events… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Arab Spring • Yemen 
Posted on Sun, March 27, 2011 at 01:12 am CET
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Turkey’s Regional Leadership in the Middle East: Principle or Realpolitik?

In stark contrast to its support for the protest movements in Egypt and Tunisia, Turkey has abstained from taking a principled, democratic stand… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Libya War • The Middle East • Turkey 
Posted on Fri, March 18, 2011 at 23:58 pm CET
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No Wonder Hillary Resigned! Mr. Burns Explains U.S. Middle East Policy

For a comprehensive statement of current U.S. Middle East policy you can’t do better than the testimony of Undersecretary of State for… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Egypt • Hamas • Hezbollah • Iran • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religious Terrorism • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Sun, March 13, 2011 at 15:26 pm CET
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Hamas ordered five Israelis murdered following secret Islamist Khartoum parley

The Itamar attack was the first result of an Iran-funded secret conference in Khartoum last week of the heads of the national branches of the Muslim Brotherhood across the Arab world… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab Spring • Global Jihad • Hamas • Iran • Islamic Terrorism • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Muslim Brotherhood • Sudan 
Posted on Tue, March 8, 2011 at 17:09 pm CET
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Iran: Rafsanjani Loses Key Post, Mahdavi Kani New Assembly of Experts Chairman

Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been replaced as head of the Assembly of Experts committee constitutionally tasked with… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Iran • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Thu, March 3, 2011 at 08:23 am CET
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Turkish Camouflage Model: Arab Radicals Learn How to Hide Your Islamism

Newsweek explains how the “Turkish Model” works… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Islamic Countries • Islamism • Jordan • Morocco • Tunisia • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, February 27, 2011 at 18:51 pm CET
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Iran and the “New Middle East” vision: “Time is on our side”

Iran once again portrayed the developments in the Arab world as reflecting the formation of a new Middle East inspired by the Islamic revolution… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Zionism • Global Islam • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Islamism • The Middle East • United States of America 
Posted on Sun, February 27, 2011 at 15:08 pm CET
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Israel-Bashing: The Al-Jazeera Mirror

American journalists on the ground in the Mid-East these past few weeks, elbow-to-elbow with al-Jazeera reporters like never before… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Media Bias 
Posted on Sat, February 26, 2011 at 01:13 am CET
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Swiss: Ben Ali Son-In-Law Wanted Residency

Former Tunisian president Ben Ali’s son-in-law Sakher Matri had requested a residency permit for Geneva, apparently to… Continue reading

Topics: Switzerland • Tunisia • United States of America • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Fri, February 25, 2011 at 22:17 pm CET
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Changes in the Middle East? Much More Never Changes at All

In 1938 the Saudi diplomat Hafiz Wahbah secretly met with Zionist leader (and future Israeli prime minister) David Ben-Gurion… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Islamic Countries • Israel • Palestine Papers • Saudi Arabia • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, February 25, 2011 at 20:29 pm CET
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Libya: US Military Advisers in Cyrenaica

Hundreds of US, British and French military advisers have arrived in Cyrenaica, Libya’s eastern breakaway province… Continue reading

Topics: Britain • France • Libya • Libya War • United States of America 
Posted on Thu, February 17, 2011 at 19:30 pm CET
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Revolution in Tunisia, Reform in Jordan Unleashes Anti-Jewish Forces

Recently, when I spoke on developments in Egypt, a serious and respected Middle East expert claimed that there was no sign of anti-American or anti-Israel… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Jasmine Revolution • Jew-Hatred • Jordan • Palestine Papers • The Middle East • Tunisia