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By Daniel Pipes
Special Ops used to be about capturing or killing enemies; now it's about shaping public opinion.
By Daniel Pipes
Dallas was a bastion of right-wing kooks with a vast legacy -- now, watch how this bastion gets blamed for the communist Oswald...
By Daniel Pipes
Barack Obama's approach pulls the United States back from its customary adult role and has it join the children.
By Daniel Pipes
Israeli responses have been stark, blunt unlike anything in memory.
By Daniel Pipes
Unlike nearby Israel, which is also surrounded, Cyprus lacks either a military option or protective fences.
By Daniel Pipes
Should the crackdown succeed in isolating, weakening, and destroying the Islamists, then others will replicate it elsewhere.
By Daniel Pipes
In Russia, Christians are declining by 0.6 percent a year and Muslims are increasing at the same rate, which will have dramatic effects over time
By Daniel Pipes
In fact, I disagree often and volubly with Israeli policies.
By Daniel Pipes
"Whoever tries to uproot us from the city of our forefathers will achieve the opposite."
By Daniel Pipes
By all accounts, the mullahs in Tehran are getting ever closer to the point where they at will can order nuclear bombs to be made and readied for use.
By Daniel Pipes
Surviving the strikes will permit Assad to boast that he defeated the United States.
By Daniel Pipes
His singular foreign policy accomplishment, trumpeted ad nauseam, was the execution of Osama bin Laden.
By Daniel Pipes
Ahmed Shafiq, the former air force commander and former president Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, actually won the presidential race by a narrow margin.
By Daniel Pipes
The point of having embassies in the first place is for them to remain open...
By Daniel Pipes
As Netanyahu appears to be making excessive and immoral concessions to the Palestinian Authority, Danon has emerged as a leading dissident ready to challenge his prime minister
By Daniel Pipes
The military has grown so large because of preferential tax treatment, subsidized labor, an extra-legal status, and old-boy networks.
By Daniel Pipes
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By Daniel Pipes
Things have never been so good in the Jewish state.
By Daniel Pipes
Other characteristically Muslim crimes taking place in Western countries include honor killings, female genital mutilation, and slave holding.
By Daniel Pipes
If Assad is winning, Western governments should respond by helping the rebels to prevent Assad from crushing them.
By Daniel Pipes
Muslims make up 30 out of 31 most wanted terrorists, or about 97 percent of them.
By Daniel Pipes
Sometimes one is better off when an opponent feels compelled to prove his bona fides.
By Daniel Pipes
One must expect future non-suicide bombers to turn to niqabs or burqas, as many terrorists and criminals have repeatedly done.
By Daniel Pipes
Though my suggestion to now back Assad to prevent Jihadi takeover and allow both sides to fight themselves to exhaustion was rejected, it seems now the administration is taking note of my counsel.
By Daniel Pipes
The Egyptian publication Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that the U.S. government has supplied five containers carrying 140,000 teargas canisters to Egypt's Interior Ministry. It further reports that this shipment left Wilmington, Delaware, on Mar. 14 aboard the SS Jamestown and that it has just arrived the port of Suez. They cost the Egyptian government just under US$2.5 million. According to ministry spokesperson […]
By Daniel Pipes
What is it about Jewish organizations that they acclaim their opponents?
By Daniel Pipes
Middle East expert Daniel Pipes advocates backing Assad in Syria to keep the civil war there going.
By Daniel Pipes
Now that Israelis humiliated themselves and Erdogan is rampaging ahead, some are awakening to the fact that this apology only made matters worse.
By Daniel Pipes
Erdogan's government has mastered the art of provocation and is being rewarded for it.
By Daniel Pipes
Western powers enjoy overwhelming battlefield superiority but face great difficulty when trying to shape other countries.
By Daniel Pipes
Both Hamas and Fatah are playing the game of pretending to end violence.
By Daniel Pipes
Erdoğan can be seen as the anti-Atatürk, the leader who seeks to undo substantial parts of his predecessor's legacy, especially Atatürk's rejection of Shari'a, or Islamic law.
By Daniel Pipes
Publishing house Palgrave Macmillan apologized for appearing to endorse "the Palestinian struggle."
By Daniel Pipes
As ever, Muslims raise startling new issues and Islam drives the social and legal agenda in the West.
By Daniel Pipes
Even the modestly dressed and Islamist friendly Catherine Ashton did not escape being photoshopped.
By Daniel Pipes
Before the "8 March Revolution," Syria had been exceptionally unstable. Then came the heavy hand of the Ba'athists.
By Daniel Pipes
Extra thoughts that could not make the main text of "When AIPAC Went AWOL."
By Daniel Pipes
Assassination sends a specific signal to others not to follow in the victim's footsteps.
By Daniel Pipes
Both law enforcement, the media and elected officials are reluctant to give out information about the attackers' religion, much less their motives.
By Daniel Pipes
You expressed having had "genuine concerns" about Hagel prior to your White House meeting with him; now is the moment for you to follow the dictates of your conscience.
By Daniel Pipes
The AWACS Israel is selling to Turkey will potentially be used against Israel in the Mediterranean Sea.
By Daniel Pipes
When will American politicians and military leaders eventually realize that training foreign soldiers does not allies make them?
By Daniel Pipes
The sort of reasoning going around in Turkey regarding the Israeli strike in Syria can quickly leave one with a sore head.
By Daniel Pipes
What a launch for Kerry, whose mental vapidity promises to make Hillary Clinton actually look good in retrospect.
By Daniel Pipes
Odd that CUFI is out there swinging and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is silent.
By Daniel Pipes
Middle East expert Daniel Pipes appeared on the 'Cross Talk' program to argue that the West should use its influence to oppose Islamism instead of supporting it.
By Daniel Pipes
The 25-minute show was the most hare-brained and loony of my 35 years going on television.
By Daniel Pipes
It will be a long, hard road to traverse, but there is no short cut and it can succeed.
By Daniel Pipes
If Hamas knows it cannot defeat the Israel Defense Forces and will get a bloody nose for its efforts, it obviously has motives other than victory in mind.
By Daniel Pipes
I vote Republican because I support the party's core message of individualism, patriotism, and respect for tradition, in contrast to the core Democratic message of dependence, self-criticism, and "progress." I am inspired by the original reading of the U.S. Constitution, by ideals of personal freedom and American exceptionalism. I vote for small government, for a return of power to the states, for a strong military, and an assertive pursuit of national interests.
By Daniel Pipes
It happens every four years, as U.S. presidential elections roll around: I feel like a stranger. That's because news reports blare out what's not of interest: trivial statistics (171,000 jobs added in October; jobless rate up 0.1 percent to 7.9 percent), biographical irrelevancies (claims that Romney outsourced jobs to other countries when at Bain Capital), and forgettable gaffes (Obama saying that "Voting is the best revenge"). This limited discussion misses the main points.
By Daniel Pipes
The Nation of Islam's historic role as a bridge between American blacks and Islam ended in 1975 when W. Deen Mohammed followed his father, Elijah Muhammad, as leader of the Nation and immediately disavowed his father's folk religion, bringing his followers to normative Islam, the Islam of the Middle East. From then on, despite the theatrics of Louis Farrakhan, the Nation has been in a long downward trajectory. Now comes evidence, thanks to Tony Ortega in the Village Voice and Eliza Gray in The New Republic, of a jaw-dropping turn by Farrakhan, 79, to Scientology; as Gray's subtitle puts it, "America's two weirdest sects join forces."
By Daniel Pipes
Barack Obama has a weak record in the Middle East, but one would not learn this from the debate, where Mitt Romney praised Obama's achievements ("It's wonderful that Libya seems to be making some progress"), agreed with Obama more than he disagreed, and rarely pointed out his failings. Presumably, Romney took this mild approach to establish his likability, competence, and suitability to serve as commander-in-chief.
By Daniel Pipes
Obama got away with saying that he had characterized the attack on the Benghazi consulate as a terrorist incident because the moderator confirmed his point; in fact he misrepresented the facts when he said "The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that … this was an act of terror."
By Daniel Pipes
Shimon Shiffer reports in Yedioth Ahronoth that in secret talks in 2010 via U.S. government mediator Frederic C. Hof, Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed in principle to a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights to the June 4, 1967, lines in return for the "expectation" of Bashar al-Assad cutting ties with Iran, and that the nearly-completed negotiations ended because of the anti-Assad uprising that began in January 2011.
By Daniel Pipes
Middle East expert Daniel Pipes' thoughts on the Biden-Ryan debate.
June 19, 2026 
