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The Interview: “Explaining the Latest Middle East Developments” (No Satire)

Revised and updated version of an interview Barry Rubin gave recently… Continue reading

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Driving in Neutral: Hillary Clinton Explains the Israel-Palestinian Conflict

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s said some very interesting and revealing things in her appearance at the Saban Center’s gala dinner, November 30. They are, however, being quoted out of context… Continue reading

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Obama Re-Elected: What He Should Have Done in the Last Four Years and Won’t Do in the Next Four Years

Over and over again I’ve written about what President Barack Obama should do. Now the voters have given him a whole new chance… Continue reading

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One Thousand and One Articles Later: Why Obama Should be Voted Out of Office in Today’s Election

For four years now, I have been chronicling the disastrous policies of President Barack Obama on the Middle East. Something should be done about that. And today is the day to do it… Continue reading

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Obama Administration Secret Talks with Iran Confirmed

The Obama Administration is secretly negotiating with Iran… Continue reading

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The Pro-Islamist Obama Administration: A Case Study in Syria

It is obvious that the Syrian National Council was a Muslim Brotherhood front group, yet the Obama Administration backed it any way… Continue reading

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Obama on His Own Middle East Record: Zero Percent Success

Obama is not listening to what the people who are fighting the U.S. say about this fight… Continue reading

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Romney’s Middle East Speech: I’ll be Tougher

Mitt Romney gave a speech at the Virginia Military Institute Monday which focuses on U.S. Middle East policy… Continue reading

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President Barack Obama Addresses the General Debate of the 67th Session of the General Assembly

President Barack Obama Addresses the General Debate of the 67th Session of the General Assembly… Continue reading

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How the U.S. Government Should Deal With the Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital Issue

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

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Court Dissolves Egyptian Parliament; Army Takes Over; Civil War?

The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court has invalidated the parliamentary election there… Continue reading

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Is Obama Strong on National Security? Of Course Not and Here’s the Iron-Clad Case Against Him

Let me explain to you why the Obama Administration’s propaganda leak effort to prove that the president is tough on national security is nonsense… Continue reading

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Why Isn’t Obama Visiting Israel?

By now it’s clear that President Barack Obama isn’t going to visit Israel in his term of office… Continue reading

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U.S. Syrian Policy: A Massacre in Progress; A Disgrace in the Making

U.S. policy toward Syria is turning into a scandal on both strategic and humanitarian grounds… Continue reading

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Can Afghanistan Be Rescued?

U.S. president Barack Obama entered office with a bold plan to combat Afghanistan’s escalating insurgency… Continue reading

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Such a “Great” Idea It Can Now Be Proclaimed But Not Criticized: Obama Supports the Muslim Brotherhood

The Obama Administration, as I’ve written for the last year, is favoring radical Islamist forces… Continue reading

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How Is Obama’s Middle East Policy Endangering Israel?

Recently a reader sent me a note from an Obama supporter responding to… Continue reading

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Obama’s Middle East Policy: A Unified Field Theory

Here’s an effort to bring together all of Obama’s regional policy into a single analysis and explaining everything… Continue reading

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Panetta Shows How the Obama Administration Is Selling Out Israel and U.S. Interests

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave us a clear picture of the Obama administration’s view of the region… Continue reading

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U.S. Political Engineering in the Middle East: Its Already Created Disaster Once Before

Few realize how U.S. policy at the start of the radical Islamist era in Middle East history parallels that… Continue reading

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Europe’s Underestimated Islamists

In early 1959, a small West German intelligence operation stumbled over a sensational find: U.S. collusion with the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading

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President Obama Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

There’s one issue that stands as a test for these principles and a test for American foreign policy, and that is the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians… Continue reading

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Why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Will Speak to Congress

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

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How The Bizarre World of Middle East Studies Messes Up U.S. Foreign Policy

Engaging in Middle East studies, as Lawrence says about putting your hand in a flame, hurts. The trick “is not minding that it hurts” and… Continue reading

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Syria: Bashar al-Assad to Demonstrators: Surrender or Die

Nowadays, Western officials and journalists seem to think nowadays that if you are a Middle East dictator and people start demonstrating… Continue reading