Egypt will hold its presidential election May 23-24 with a possible run-off on June 16-17. It is impossible at this point to predict what’s going to happen but I can make a good guess… Continue reading
The political history of the modern Middle East can easily be divided into three eras… Continue reading
When Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ leader in the Gaza Strip, visited Tunisia, he was met with an ecstatic welcome from both the Tunisian public and authorities alike… Continue reading
For the first time in forty years, Israel is not the American president’s favorite Middle Eastern ally… Continue reading
Is Tunisia, the Arab world’s historically most moderate country in social and intellectual terms, headed for Islamism… Continue reading
There is a constant effort to portray those who express Israeli public opinion and the views of professional analysts as “right-wing”… Continue reading
Turkey’s growing international profile has been controversial… Continue reading
As’ad AbuKahlil spoke last month at a day-long “teach-in” at the University of California… Continue reading
In a rare glimpse behind the curtain, a Palestinian scandal sheds a lot of light on the Palestinian Authority, Arab politics, and Western illusions… Continue reading
Let’s figure out what the voting in Egypt means in concrete terms… Continue reading
Here’s an effort to bring together all of Obama’s regional policy into a single analysis and explaining everything… Continue reading
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave us a clear picture of the Obama administration’s view of the region… Continue reading
Syrian Vice FM Miqdad flatly denying any Syrian role in the supply of weapons to Hizballah… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood held a rally at Cairo’s most important mosque… Continue reading
Why cannot Western elites see this kind of lightly camouflaged extremism… Continue reading
Assad resisted Iranian arguments for closer bilateral coordination in Iraq and Yemen and flatly rejected being drawn into a war between Iran and Israel… Continue reading
Syria in 2009 continued political support to Palestinian terrorist groups… Continue reading
An actual analysis of what I wrote on this controversial issue, understanding my points, and pointing out the misquotes… Continue reading
There is a man who Obama loves to deal with, if not every day at least as often as possible… Continue reading
U.S. Embassy cables leaked by Wikileaks in September exposed the ugly truth that self-described champions of Israeli democracy would… Continue reading
Fifty Libyan Muslim Brotherhood mercenaries arrived in the Gaza Strip from Tripoli last month… Continue reading
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
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
Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja has done it again… Continue reading
Turkish-Israeli bilateral relations remain strained… Continue reading
On September 30, 2000, state-owned France 2 Television broadcast a news report, filmed by a Palestinian cameraman, of the fatal shooting of a… Continue reading
Israel is under assault from within and not just from the usual suspects… Continue reading
There are some substantial misunderstandings on the nature of the Gilad Shalit exchange deal… Continue reading
This cable give us more background on Norway’s (Muslim) minorities, anti-semitism, anti-Israeli incitement and… Continue reading
Christians are fleeing the Middle East and Western Christians are indifferent… Continue reading
These three cables from the U.S. embassy in Oslo give us a nasty view on Norway’s anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias… Continue reading
With the comedy of the UN obsessing over Israel this week, and the Durban III Conference, where the acceptable face of racism will hold sway, it is perhaps appropriate to look at the anti-Israel bias of the biggest international news agency in the world… Continue reading
I hate Israel and want to destroy it! And besides we’re all Muslims. So let me lead the Middle East… Continue reading
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