Two weeks ago, US Congressman Joe Walsh published an op-ed in the The Washington Times in which he called for the US and Israel to abandon the two-state solution… Continue reading
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
The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, whose members are both trans-Jordanian and Palestinian in origin, is the main opposition in the country… Continue reading
The new Middle East strategic battle is heating up and this is only the start… Continue reading
Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional, and complex than the status of those persons known as Palestine refugees… Continue reading
A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet… Continue reading
The political history of the modern Middle East can easily be divided into three eras… Continue reading
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
This study examines the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and other Arab countries in the wake of the past year’s regional uprisings… Continue reading
It’s time for the Fifth Internationale, that of the Muslim Brotherhoods… Continue reading
Thus far the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has weathered the storm that has swept across the Middle East… Continue reading
The right of return for Palestinians is one of the issues at the heart of the debate… 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
The armies of Syria’s seven neighbors were already scrambling into position on standby on its borders for acts of… Continue reading
Jordan’s King Abdullah II arrived in Ramallah at very short notice for his first visit in more than a decade… Continue reading
The Assad regime suffered a major shock when self-styled “Free Syrian Army” deserters firing shoulder-borne rockets and… Continue reading
I think there is going to be less coordination with the West and therefore a chance of more misunderstandings… Continue reading
A two-state solution, that ends the conflict by meeting the needs of both sides, is and can be the only secure and lasting peace… Continue reading
Such a move is expected to cause an environment of intensified strife… Continue reading
Since much of what I write about regional politics seems pessimistic… Continue reading
A gunfight is going on in the early afternoon of Friday between terrorists and the Egyptian army… Continue reading
Israel’s historic position toward the territories captured in the 1967 war has been: Israel will control this land until… Continue reading
A new video by Ayalon alludes to the point that the mainstream media continually forwards certain basic fabrications of the historical record… Continue reading
The 1948 Arab-Israeli War caused great indignation and humiliation for the Palestinians… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood emerged in Egypt as a fundamentally Egyptian Sunni-Muslim movement… Continue reading
There are two types of strategic perspectives in Israel today. They aren’t contradictory but they have different priorities… Continue reading
In the absence of U.S. leadership, others want to direct the Middle East… Continue reading
A Turkish Islamist delegation, which in our assessment included IHH activists, was involved in violent clashes with Jordanian security forces… Continue reading
How can anybody continue to spout nonsense about how President Barack Obama’s policies and endless attempts to… Continue reading
IHH and its leader, Bülent Yildirim, conduct a propaganda campaign to prepare the ground for the flotilla planned for the end of June… Continue reading
Following the example of this month’s Nakba Day marches, Palestinians and their supporters are preparing to launch another multipronged assault… Continue reading
Since the United States is not leading the anti-Islamist forces in the Middle East and protecting the relatively moderate Arab states… Continue reading
MEMRI has translated several Arab reactions to the “Nakba Day” marches on Israel’s border… Continue reading
In 1947 the UN voted to partition the British mandate of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. The Jews accepted partition… Continue reading
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