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Turkey-Iraq Relations: From Bad to Worse

Relations between the governments of Iraq and Turkey continue to deteriorate… Continue reading

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The Iraqi Model: As Good As It Gets

Iraq is in a mess. Violence continues. Factionalism leads to endless bickering. Corruption is at high levels. Christians live in fear or flee altogether. Islamism is constantly creeping forward… Continue reading

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On Massacres and Motivations

Commenting on the recent massacre of 17 Afghan civilians that was allegedly carried out by Staff Sergeant Robert Bales… Continue reading

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The New Middle East: Arab versus non-Arab Muslims; Sunni versus Shia

The new Middle East strategic battle is heating up and this is only the start… Continue reading

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Ankara and Baghdad: A Parting of Ways?

Until now, Turkey’s presence in Iraq has generally been encouraged by all major Iraqi groups… Continue reading

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Obama’s State of the Union Speech: My Response Discovers Some Curious Insights and Strange Formulations

In his State of the Union message, President Barack Obama began by wrapping himself in the flag, patriotism, and love of the armed forces while trying to highlight his foreign policy achievements… Continue reading

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America and the Arab Spring

A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet… Continue reading

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The Middle East in 2012: The Year of Living Dangerously

The region-wide upheaval known as “the Arab Spring” would make it seem that terrorism, especially Islamist terrorism, is pretty much as dead as are its thousands of victims… Continue reading

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How I Learned About Courage From an Arab Marxist and About Cowardice From Western Phony “Liberals”

A little man stood on the stage in a British university hall… Continue reading

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Identity Among Middle East Christians

In the course of the present unrest across the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading

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What happens to terrorism suspect Ali Musa Daqduq: Will he be tried or be released?

Ali Daqduq was recently handed over to the Iraqi administration… Continue reading

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Sunni versus Shia: The Middle East’s New Strategic Conflict

Conflicts between Sunni and Shia Muslims are not at all new, but… Continue reading

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My Critique of Two “Neo-Conservative” Presidents: Obama and Bush

A Huffington Post writer with no known expertise on the Middle East, has accused me of being not only an alarmist about revolutionary Islamism but also as a “neo-con… Continue reading

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Jordan Is Palestinian

Thus far the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has weathered the storm that has swept across the Middle East… Continue reading

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Overviewing Shi’a-Sunni Conflicts

As we approach the end of the first year of what has been called the Arab Spring… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Syria’s Proxy War in Iraq

The Islamists in Seidnaya responsible for the riots were part of a cadre of inmates sent to Iraq sometime after 2003 to fight with the insurgency… Continue reading

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The Coming Oil-Shale Revolution?

To preface, when it comes to global petroleum supplies, a distinction is drawn between… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Syrian-Iranian Show of Solidarity Masks Tensions over Iraq, Yemen and War with Israel

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

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WikiLeaks: Syria – State Sponsor of Terrorism

Syria in 2009 continued political support to Palestinian terrorist groups… Continue reading

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Syria, Turkey and the Kurds

Bashar al-Assad is apparently aiming to destabilize Turkey… Continue reading

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Turkish Foreign Policy in Evolution

Turkish government representatives insist that they want to develop good ties in all directions… 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

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King Abdallah of Jordan on How No One Trusts Obama’s Government

I think there is going to be less coordination with the West and therefore a chance of more misunderstandings… Continue reading

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The Arab Spring and the Jews

Throughout the ongoing unrest in the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading

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FM Walid Al-Moualem Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

There are two sides to the problem Syria faces today… Continue reading

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

Iraq is building a homeland where everyone lives in peace and stability without regard to sectarian, ethnic or factional affiliations… Continue reading

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Sheikh Naser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

End the Israeli occupation of all the Arab territories it occupied after 4 June 1967, including the Syrian Golan… Continue reading

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A Sectarian Issue

As Gaddafi’s regime crumbles, speculation has started to arise over whether the Syrian opposition will now be emboldened in their struggle against Assad… Continue reading

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Israel’s Strategic Situation: Plenty to Worry About But Little to Fear

Since much of what I write about regional politics seems pessimistic… Continue reading

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Erdogan’s War: Will Turkey’s Most Powerful Leader Since Ataturk Succeed in Securing the Country’s Unity?

Attacks carried out by Kurdish separatists since mid-July have set Turkey on the road to war… Continue reading

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Assessing Qaddafi

The world’s longest ruling head of state, Mu’ammar al-Qadhdhafi (the correct transliteration of his name), would have been ruler of Libya for exactly 42 years on… Continue reading

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Do Iraqi Documents Give Some Hints About the Iranian Regime’s Nuclear Strategy?

While an analogy doesn’t prove the point, I think that contemporary Iranian thinking is equivalent… Continue reading

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Obama and Erdogan grant Assad 15 days to finish Syrian Uprising

Thursday night, Aug. 11, US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan agreed to set Syrian… Continue reading

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The Big Split in the Revolutionary Islamist Movement: Sunni and Shia Blocs Emerge

A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the… Continue reading

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Spring comes, but not for Iraq’s Kurds

Amid widespread protests during this so-called “Arab Spring,” one place that has received relatively little media coverage is Iraqi Kurdistan… Continue reading

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