Being drawn into the Syrian civil war forced Hezbollah to pay both a political price and a price to its image in the Arab-Muslim world… Continue reading
Hezbollah supports the Syrian regime as the civil war drags on… Continue reading
For Iran and Hezbollah, the preservation of Bashar Assad’s regime is of supreme strategic importance… Continue reading
Knee-jerk proof-texting of the “Islam is peace” claim will benefit no one… Continue reading
To get a picture of current U.S. Middle East policy just imagine a “Cold War” in which the United States would side with the Communists… Continue reading
The ongoing Islamification of Turkey… Continue reading
How the Assad regime has managed to survive the revolution, for the time being and in contrast to other recent upheavals in the Middle East… Continue reading
The battle over the Syrian town Ras al-Ain on the border to Turkey damaged Turkish relations with the Kurds in Syria, and with parts of Syrian opposition… Continue reading
To understand what happened one must examine the long negotiations on this issue… Continue reading
Much has been made of the Palestinian exodus of 1948. Yet during their decades of dispersal, the Palestinians have experienced no less traumatic ordeals at the hands of their Arab brothers… Continue reading
Should Iran give more importance to Syria than to the Khuzestan region… Continue reading
Cairo conference to support Arab minority in Khuzestan region stirs up Arab-Sunni and Persian-Shia animosity… Continue reading
Is there any Middle Eastern Muslim-majority country where Islamism is being defeated?… Continue reading
The Turkish-Iranian relationship is primed for problems due to differing geopolitical and sectarian interests… Continue reading
Reining in the Gülenists can be seen as a welcome development, but it will also consolidate Erdoğan’s already alarming monopolization of power… Continue reading
A report on the alleged aggressions by the Arab states in the period just before the Israeli War of Independence… 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
My main goal of forty years of Middle East analysis has been trying to explain the Middle East as it actually exists, how its politics work, and how its history can be understood… Continue reading
The massacre of the Ottoman Armenians helped persuade the Nazis to exterminate national minorities as well… Continue reading
Is U.S. Middle East policy aligned with the ‘Sunni bloc’ in a grand sectarian alliance against the ‘Shi’ite crescent’?… Continue reading
People who believe the Arabic-speaking world is heading toward democracy don’t understand that Islamist forces are unleashed quite willing to engage in violence until total triumph… Continue reading
Obama should have to pay for his pro-Islamist behavior in public opinion and the loss of congressional support… Continue reading
Why didn’t Obama go at a time when it would presumably have benefited him politically… Continue reading
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Hello Mike, Thank you for your positive feedback to the article. I felt there wasn’t too much critical analysis of ...
Thanks for this considered and well constructed article. A follow up article on the manner in which the editorial contro...
THE CLUELESSNESS OF CLAIMING THAT OBAMA'S MIDDLE EAST POLICIES WERE A FAILURE CANNOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH, WHAT THE...
As long as Obama is the president of the usa do not trust the us government......
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