Posted on Sun, April 3, 2011 at 00:40 am CEST
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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

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Miscellaneous • The Middle East 
Posted on Thu, March 31, 2011 at 17:33 pm CEST
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Syriana

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in his Damascus speech on Wednesday that foreign conspirators are responsible for the ongoing… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, March 27, 2011 at 13:45 pm CEST
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Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu: “We Need to Hinder the Despotic Ambitions of AKP”

In this exclusive interview for Turkish Policy Quarterly, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu outlines his views and his Party’s position on the pressing foreign policy choices Turkey faces… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Cyprus • Islamism • NATO • The Middle East • Turkey 
Posted on Sat, March 19, 2011 at 18:58 pm CET
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Hamas Backed Now by Egyptian Government Strikes Israel with Mortars

Israeli civilians living around the Gaza border woke up Saturday, March 19, to the most massive mortar attack in years… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Hamas • Islamism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Syria 
Posted on Wed, March 16, 2011 at 21:01 pm CET
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Past Iranian Attempts of Weapons Smuggling

In recent months two more Iranian attempts to ship weapons were exposed. Their destinations were Hezbollah and Gambia… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Islamic Terrorism 
Posted on Sat, March 12, 2011 at 19:31 pm CET
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Arab Political Upheavals: Obsession with Israel Blinded Westerners to the Real Middle East

As we consider the lessons of the dramatic upheavals in Arabic-speaking countries one of the main ones is this: the overriding obsession with… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Islamic Countries • Islamism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, March 11, 2011 at 00:28 am CET
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Why Does the Media Report the Opposite of What’s True in the Middle East?

Here’s one of a thousand examples of how Middle East reality is being misrepresented. I’m told by people that the deputy head of… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Media Bias • Muslim Brotherhood • The Middle East 
Posted on Wed, March 9, 2011 at 21:55 pm CET
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Hamas Applauds anti-Israel Position of the New Egyptian Foreign Minister

Hamas applauded Nabil al-Arabi’s statements. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called his positions “honorable” and said he… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Hamas • Israel 
Posted on Tue, March 1, 2011 at 21:25 pm CET
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Iran to Build Permanent Naval Base in Syria

Just two days after two Iranian warships reached the Syrian port of Latakia via the Suez Canal, an Iranian-Syrian naval cooperation accord was signed… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Iran • Russian Federation • Syria • The Middle East 
Posted on Tue, March 1, 2011 at 01:24 am CET
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Egypt’s Revolution and Israeli Interests: A Strategic Assessment

What does the Egyptian revolution mean for Israel? A great deal and, unfortunately, none of it is particularly good, though Israel will have to adjust… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Israel • The Middle East 
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 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 01:57 am CET
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Egypt’s Revolution: The More They Reassure Us, The More We Worry

I think I was the first person to warn that the Egyptian revolution wasn’t all roses but also had a dangerous amount of thorns… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Hamas • Islamism • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Jasmine Revolution • Libya War • Muslim Brotherhood • The Middle East 
Posted on Sat, February 19, 2011 at 01:09 am CET
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Israel on High Alert for Iranian Warships’ Suez Transit Carrying Missiles for Hizballah

Cairo’s approval Friday, Feb. 18 for two Iranian warships to transit the Suez Canal on their way to the Mediterranean has brought Israel and Iran… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Hezbollah • Iran • Israel • Saudi Arabia • Syria • United States of America 
Posted on Sat, February 19, 2011 at 00:16 am CET
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Egypt: Qaradawi Tries to Take Charge of the Revolution

Let history show that neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post reported on the return of the world’s single most important Islamic cleric to Cairo… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Mon, February 14, 2011 at 19:58 pm CET
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Address by PM Netanyahu to the European Friends of Israel Conference in Jerusalem 2011

It’s very good to see all of you, to welcome you in Jerusalem. It is a great city that has great significance for each of your countries and for Europe… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • China • Egypt • Europe • Global Islam • Greece • Islamic Countries • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Jordan • Peace Process • The Middle East 
Posted on Sat, February 12, 2011 at 19:47 pm CET
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Netanyahu welcomes Egypt Military Pledge to maintain Peace Treaty

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday welcomed a pledge by the Egyptian military to maintain the peace treaty between the two countries… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Israel 
Posted on Fri, February 11, 2011 at 10:55 am CET
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Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty: A Warning Sign

The idea that a new government in Egypt might simply cancel Egypt’s Peace Agreement with Israel has been greeted with disinterest by both the… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Israel • Palestinian Authority • Peace Process • Satire 
Posted on Thu, February 10, 2011 at 09:52 am CET
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Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty: Return Policy?

I was supposed to post a “Golden Oldie” today, but I just couldn’t resist doing another cartoon about the events in Egypt… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Israel • Satire 
Posted on Tue, February 8, 2011 at 08:40 am CET
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ElBaradei: Israel Has No Peace Treaty with Egyptians

After the U.S. president [Obama] repeatedly called for Mubarak’s instant departure someone in Washington actually read Egypt’s constitution and discovered that… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Israel • Muslim Brotherhood • United States of America 
Posted on Sat, February 5, 2011 at 04:17 am CET
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Muslim Brotherhood Leader Says Will End Peace Treaty With Israel

Over and over again we have been told that the Muslim Brotherhood is weak, moderate, and is not calling for ending the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. But now… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Islamism • Jew-Hatred • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Fri, February 4, 2011 at 02:26 am CET
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Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Will Abrogate Peace Treaty with Israel

We have been repeatedly assured in the media — on the basis of no evidence — that if the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power in a coalition or even directly that the radical Islamist group… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Sun, January 30, 2011 at 19:27 pm CET
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Germany Banned the anti-Israeli Movie “Valley of the Wolves: Palestine”

Germany banned the distribution of the anti-Israeli movie “Valley of the Wolves: Palestine,” which was supposed to premiere on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Anti-Zionism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Gaza Flotillas and Convoys • Germany • Islamism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Jew-Hatred • Turkey 
Posted on Fri, January 14, 2011 at 01:18 am CET
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Christians and Jews Under Attack

The main threat to the Jewish people today is no longer physical, as it was in the past. Rather, it is directed at the legitimacy and survival of the State of Israel itself, the Jewish State… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Christianity • Global Islam • Israel • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, January 7, 2011 at 18:33 pm CET
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Repackaging the Conflict

The Islamist war against the Jewish State has been successfully repackaged as an Israeli war against the “Palestinians”. Even Zionist organizations now refer to the conflict as… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Global Jihad • Islamism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Satire