Countries may vary, but civilization is one, and for a nation to progress, it must take part in this one civilization… Continue reading
Michael Hirsh has responded to my critique of his article. Amazingly, yet typical of our era, he didn’t engage with a single—not a single—idea I presented… Continue reading
America has started to leave our region and there will be no ally left to you… Continue reading
It is the year 2012, yet the hysterical hatred for Israel in the Arabic-speaking world and among Muslims in general has only increased… Continue reading
In the Middle East, the vultures are coming home to roost… Continue reading
As the high hopes for a brave new Middle East fade rapidly, Western policymakers must recognize that promoting market economics and its inevitable cultural changes are far more critical to the region’s well-being than encouraging free elections or resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict… Continue reading
What do you tell soldiers who are risking their lives on Middle East battlefields about the people they are fighting for and against simultaneously?… Continue reading
Diehl’s challenge to the critics of the mainstream thinking on the Middle East is very serious… Continue reading
And the Americans brought them to power… 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
Do I have to draw you a picture of how Islamism is just pretending to be moderate… Continue reading
How can U.S. government officials believe such silly and wrong things about the Middle East… Continue reading
The radical is always the more glamorous… Continue reading
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech justifying Obama Administration Middle East policy changes everything… Continue reading
The question of multilingualism and the decline of the Arabic language in polyglot, multiethnic Middle Eastern societies… Continue reading
Many people find it hard to comprehend what the Obama Administration thinks it’s doing in the Middle East… Continue reading
Every day in the Middle East, terrible things take place… Continue reading
What can we learn from the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Qadhafi… Continue reading
A small country, its land reclaimed from a hostile nature, fights for survival against overwhelming odds for 80 years… 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
Turkey is aspiring to broaden its horizons to include not just Europe but the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia in its strategic… Continue reading
Is the Palestinian bid for UN recognition of unilateral statehood “causing diplomatic panic” in the United States and Israel… Continue reading
Ten years after September 11, 2001, when the very phrase “war on terrorism” is barred from U.S. government usage by the president… Continue reading
Since much of what I write about regional politics seems pessimistic… Continue reading
A few hours ago I wrote that the Egyptian military government reportedly told Israel that a major Israeli offensive… Continue reading
Any criticism one can make of Beck regarding Middle East issues rather pales in comparison to all of the above points on which he is quite correct… Continue reading
A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the… Continue reading
It’s fascinating to see not only the Middle East going backward but Western analysts and officials cheering on a return to even more war and terrorism… Continue reading
Foreign and defense policies did not figure prominently in the recent general election in Turkey… Continue reading
There’s a remarkable exchange from a May 2009 presidential press conference that is extraordinarily revealing… Continue reading
In the absence of U.S. leadership, others want to direct the Middle East… Continue reading
Twenty years ago, I was a school kid chanting with my peers, “Our leader forever, the father, Hafez Assad!” Back then, I could not have imagined… Continue reading
A remarkable amount of what’s written on the Middle East in the mass media is nonsensical… Continue reading
What’s most scary in America today may be the financial deficit and it may be government policies, but for me the scariest thing is… Continue reading
Turkey’s recent decision to spend billions of dollars buying U.S.-made helicopters underscores the continuing significance of… Continue reading
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