Cairo conference to support Arab minority in Khuzestan region stirs up Arab-Sunni and Persian-Shia animosity… Continue reading
We are continually told that Obama’s policy has been supportive of democracy and human rights, but this is not true at all… Continue reading
Open letter to President Obama by Bahieddin Hassan… Continue reading
Obama should have to pay for his pro-Islamist behavior in public opinion and the loss of congressional support… Continue reading
2012 will likely be remembered as the year that Islamists made the greatest gains in their quest for a new caliphate in the region… Continue reading
Kerry isn’t just wrong, he’s totally clueless… Continue reading
The Western left were for decades apologists for repression carried out by the USSR, Soviet bloc, and other communist dictatorships, and now they are apologists for Islamist repression carried out against Arab leftists… Continue reading
What’s the major problem for U.S. foreign policy during Obama’s second term… Continue reading
What are the next steps for Mursi?… Continue reading
How politics work in the Arabic-speaking world today… Continue reading
Whatever the outcome from the upcoming referendum to begin on Saturday in Egypt for the draft constitution, the superior position of the Islamist factions is unlikely to be overthrown in the near future… Continue reading
Only a week after being praised by the Obama Administration for his supposed helpfulness in ending the fighting in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, Egyptian President Mursi apparently decided to cash in his praise “chips” early… Continue reading
A critical moment has arrived for Egypt. But what does it mean?… Continue reading
Around 1985, current al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri fled his homeland of Egypt, presumably never to return, he never forgot his original objective: transforming Egypt into an Islamist state that upholds and enforces the totality of Sharia law, and that works towards the resurrection of a global caliphate… Continue reading
Egypt’s population will be given two weeks to consider the Constitution, which has 236 articles, that will govern their lives for decades to come… Continue reading
What are the early warning signs of an Islamist totalitarian state… Continue reading
What’s been happening in Egypt this week is as important as the revolution that overthrew the old regime almost two years ago… Continue reading
The cease-fire agreement that Israel accepted Wednesday night to end the current round of Palestinian rocket and missile attacks is not a good deal for Israel by any stretch of the imagination… Continue reading
Egypt’s President Morsi assumes sweeping powers, branded new pharaoh… Continue reading
Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire Wednesday to end eight days of fighting, promising to halt air strikes and rocket attacks… Continue reading
Whenever the Israel-Palestine conflict is in the news, too much ink is wasted over moralizing rather than analyzing… Continue reading
A lot of people have asked the purpose of Israel’s defensive war against Hamas… Continue reading
Focus is everything — knowing what the central problem is, and dealing with it… Continue reading
A short history of democracy in Egypt… Continue reading
So can you write “Arab Spring,” free elections, democracy in Egypt, and such things 100 times?… Continue reading
One of the mantras from Israel’s supposed foreign well-wishers is that the country is now “isolated.” Sure, on the surface this makes sense… Continue reading
A 35-man seemingly bedouin terrorist team invaded an Egyptian army base in eastern Sinai, stole a truck and armored personnel carrier, and tried to crash the Israel border gate… Continue reading
Prior to Egypt’s presidential elections, Islamists made clear that the electoral process was an obligatory form of “holy war”… Continue reading
The interesting news was not that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was pelted with stuff while visiting Cairo, the important issue was who was doing the pelting… Continue reading
Obama came into office with a theory on which he based his Middle East policy. His theory was that jihadists hate America because the US supports Israel… Continue reading
Although it isn’t official, the first two articles of Egypt’s new Constitution have been reportedly drafted by the committee of parliamentarians charged with that task… Continue reading
According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids… Continue reading
An interesting and important question about the Middle East is whether being in power or running in an election inevitably moderates those who are radicals… Continue reading
What is being dubbed as Egypt’s “first sex-slave marriage” took place mere days after the Muslim Brotherhood’s Muhammad Morsi was made president… Continue reading
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