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WikiLeaks: U.S. Discusses Goldstone Report with Israeli Human Rights Activists, Red Cross, Academic and Legal Experts

U.S. diplomat Michael Posner met with several non-governmental interlocutors regarding the Israeli response to the Goldstone Report… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: U.S. Discusses Goldstone Report with Senior Israeli Officials

A delegation met with senior Israeli officials in early January 2010 to discuss Israel’s response to the UN Goldstone Report… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: U.S. Discusses Operation Cast Lead Investigations with IDF

The meetings reviewed legal and operational issues related to IDF activities during Operation Cast Lead… Continue reading

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Binding and Non-Binding Agreements Pertaining to the Arab-Israeli Conflict

International law has played a central role in attempting to solve the Arab-Israel conflict… Continue reading

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Will Turkey Get a New Constitution that is a Societal Compact, and not a Dictate of the State?

The new constitution of Turkey needs to be societal compact that reflects the pluralism of society… Continue reading

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Why Did Sarkozy and Obama “Dis” (Disrespect) Bibi?

During a conversation when they thought nobody was listening French President Nicholas Sarkozy and U.S. President Barack Obama said… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Mustafa Abdul Jalil, an Islamist all along

When Abdul Jalil talks about reforms, he is (and was) doing so with an Islamist agenda in mind… Continue reading

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The Latest KCK Arrests: One Step Closer to Breaking Point

The AKP is using the KCK investigation as an instrument to try to crush all opposition to its increasingly hawkish policies on the Kurdish issue… Continue reading

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Fifty Libyan ‘Islamist’ Rebels Join the Jihad against Israel

Fifty Libyan Muslim Brotherhood mercenaries arrived in the Gaza Strip from Tripoli last month… Continue reading

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Libya Heading Towards Islamism

Islamism will be the dominant political force in Libya… Continue reading

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Obama Administration Promotes Islamist Regimes; Insists They are Moderate

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech justifying Obama Administration Middle East policy changes everything… Continue reading

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John Quincy Adams on Islam

The average American’s lack of awareness of the past has left our nation in an extremely vulnerable position… Continue reading

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Turkey: in between Political Islam and the Military

This paper analyses the impact of domestic dynamics on its relations with Israel during the current AKP government and the RP led government in the 1990s… Continue reading

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The Unmasking of Namik Tan

It is truly amazing that the Turkish government would send to Washington in 2010 an Ambassador who had opposed Erdogan’s Islamist party… Continue reading

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Russia says military strike on Iran ‘very serious mistake’

On Monday Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that a possible Israeli military strike against Iran… Continue reading

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Finnish delusions

Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja has done it again… Continue reading

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The Arab Political Left and the Islamist Drive for Power

In the “good old days” of Stalinist Communism, the Left would have called the Islamists, “clerical fascists”… Continue reading

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Does Anyone Speak Arabic?

The question of multilingualism and the decline of the Arabic language in polyglot, multiethnic Middle Eastern societies… Continue reading

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A Parable of Middle East History: The Well-Intentioned Arab and the Malicious Genie

One day in 1952, a young Arab intellectual was walking along the shore of the Nile… Continue reading

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The Battle for Egypt: The Army Strikes Back

They claim to be protecting the country from Islamic fundamentalists, who appear likely to capture a plurality of seats in parliament… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Israeli Ambassador Traces His Problems to Erdogan

Erdogan simply hates Israel… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Turkish-Israeli Relations Continue to Sour

Turkish-Israeli bilateral relations remain strained… Continue reading

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Hizballah Leader Nasrallah: we can fight Israel without aid from Iran or Syria

Nasrallah assured Hizballah troops they are capable of fighting Israel without Iranian or Syrian help… Continue reading

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Turkey’s Anti-PKK Operation Faces Major Obstacles

The Turkish government has now responded with one of its largest counterinsurgency operations in years… Continue reading