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By Barry Rubin
The interviewer responds, "There was also Balfour."
By Barry Rubin
If the Obama/Kerry peace deal does go through, what would the risks be?
By Barry Rubin
Let me make it plain. There will be mass murder, even genocide in Syria.
By Barry Rubin
A large number of pro-Obama and radical or even anti-Israel cadre are Jews.
By Barry Rubin
Does anyone think the Palestinian Authority will resist daily attacks from Hamas and Fatah radicals?
By Barry Rubin
Secret Service security arrangements were overruled.
By Barry Rubin
The Obama Administration plan is very simple, assuming that everything goes smoothly–which of course it will not.
By Barry Rubin
The less you know about Islam, the better. Ignorance is strength.
By Barry Rubin
It would still be too hazardous for an Arab government to accept Israel's nationhood.
By Barry Rubin
This was the mainstream of democracy and democratic opinion: The "vital center."
By Barry Rubin
I have been working hard to explain to people that Iran’s nuclear weapons are not the major threat to Israel.
By Barry Rubin
Israel has not been given real security by the UN and Europe and most recently the United States.
By Barry Rubin
Since the Israeli argument is so cogent and backed by facts and observable realities, it would be dangerously persuasive to those who actually get to hear it.
By Barry Rubin
Just to make the point clear, I did not cherry-pick these examples. These are the first 11 which constitute the first page.
By Barry Rubin
If you have never understood U.S. Middle East policy here it is: The (wrong) response to September 11.
By Barry Rubin
Iran is a rational actor in terms of its own objectives.
By Barry Rubin
Not much progress—which is really moving backwards—will be made on the Israeli-Palestinian front.
By Barry Rubin
She wrote two articles, one calling the Syrian rebels radicals, another saying they're moderates.
By Barry Rubin
Georgetown was getting Arab money for teaching about the Middle East, but none of it could be used to teach about Israel.
By Barry Rubin
The NY Times is lying. Netanyahu cannot "block" an initiative and if Obama wants talks he will have them.
By Barry Rubin
Countries must be ready for a higher level of potential friction with the Obama Administration.
By Barry Rubin
One of the factors in British policy was a hope that if the Germans were flattered and treated properly, they would not be aggressive.
By Barry Rubin
The bottom line is the belief that if the Muslim Brotherhood is kept happy it won’t cause any trouble.
By Barry Rubin
The greatest danger for Israel would be to listen to the bad advice of Obama, Kerry, and their supporters.
By Barry Rubin
These threats should be laughed at.
By Barry Rubin
The Obama Administration believes that it can reconcile with Islamist states.
By Barry Rubin
Why have those who govern Syria followed such a pattern for more than six decades under almost a dozen different regimes?
By Barry Rubin
I sat there speechless. I simply couldn't believe what I was hearing.
By Barry Rubin
The supposed advantage of democracy is that the media, academia, and others speak—where did I hear this before?—truth to power.
By Barry Rubin
The Palestinian leadership's goal of wiping out Israel has not changed. Only if it ever does will there be any chance of a two-state solution.
By Barry Rubin
Did President Obama have to lie in a UN speech?
By Barry Rubin
Obama, a man who has spent a few hours in Israel and has no empathy with it, dares to say that he knows better what that country needs than does Prime Minister Netanyahu.
By Barry Rubin
Why would the PA keep any post-treaty commitments? We know that Hamas will not.
By Barry Rubin
Why is Israel releasing the worst terrorists for no gain, not even good publicity?
By Barry Rubin
America can never be helping the Brotherhood because America is evil and satanic.
By Barry Rubin
Does anyone notice that the Palestinians keep demanding more preconditions, Israeli concessions but never come to the table?
By Barry Rubin
The PA will keep doing stalling tactics and come up with new preconditions that it hopes Israel will not meet.
By Barry Rubin
This story brought home to me that to do one’s task rightly, to bear witness honestly, and to face the consequences without flinching should be the hallmarks of my field.
By Barry Rubin
The military-civilian governors of Egypt are the same people who have always run the country. They have not done a great job.
By Barry Rubin
You can no longer argue that solving the Arab-Israeli or Israel-Palestinian conflict will fix the region.
By Barry Rubin
Suddenly, as the still-alive Confederates reached the Union line, we charged forward to go into action.
By Barry Rubin
Originally published at Rubin Reports. Note: I beg you to read this article and I've never said that before. I think in the wake of the Egyptian coup, everything has come clearly together on U.S. Middle East policy. This is the most important article I've written in 2.5 years, since predicting the first Egyptian revolution in […]
By Barry Rubin
In this test, find which entry does not belong on this list.
By Barry Rubin
Fundamental transformation is not for the faint of heart.
By Barry Rubin
"We have to prove to the world that we are capable of democracy..."
By Barry Rubin
No Jew need ever starve, because they always make a good living as a critic of Israel.
By Barry Rubin
"He who tells the truth is driven from nine villages" -- Turkish proverb.
By Barry Rubin
A mob of up to 3000 regular people, the neighbors, marched on the house where the Shia were gathered.
By Barry Rubin
Tom Friedman doesn’t understand the Middle East, though he has persuaded a big audience otherwise.
By Barry Rubin
The ideas that this is some far left thing is a slander by Islamists.
By Barry Rubin
American policymakers are likely to be carried away and to see rebel victory as the equivalent of a good and heroic victory for freedom.
By Barry Rubin
Is there no one who remembers this recent history?
By Barry Rubin
The weapons will be given to people whose politics encompass hatred for Jews, Christians, the West generally, and Women.
By Barry Rubin
Yusuf al-Qaradawi knows how to express his ideas clearly and persuasively.
By Barry Rubin
Do you want to arm the Syrian rebels so they can establish another Sharia state?
By Barry Rubin
You have a massive counterterrorist project costing $1 trillion but when it comes down to it the thing repeatedly fails.
By Barry Rubin
The problem is not cynicism but naivete.
By Barry Rubin
Moderate Muslims have been neglected and isolated by this project which has helped the radicals, Islamists, and pro-terrorists.
By Barry Rubin
He knows how to deal with the West and will hopefully keep the money rolling in but cannot do anything and won’t try.
By Barry Rubin
Demonstrators charged that police undercover agents entered the protest areas, threw stones, and then went back behind the police lines.
By Barry Rubin
Put simply, who are the friends of Israel in the region and who are the foes?
By Barry Rubin
If billions of dollars have not bought PA support for a two-state solution in 20 years why should anything change now?
By Barry Rubin
In the 6400 words used by Obama, Islam only constitutes three of them.
By Barry Rubin
You might think that six Khamenei followers might split the hardline vote but don't worry as that will be taken care of in the ballot-counting if necessary.
By Barry Rubin
With a 'friend' like Erdogan, Obama’s policy toward Syria, Iran, the advance of revolutionary Islamism, and the Israel-Palestinian “peace process,” is in serious trouble.
By Barry Rubin
America could be said to be building a united front against Iran, but at what price?
By Barry Rubin
Even Muslim Brotherhood think-tanks have said that the Shia, and especially Iran, are more dangerous threats than is Israel.
By Barry Rubin
The Obama Administration has turned to Islamists in the belief that they are best suited to guard US interests in the Middle East.
By Barry Rubin
Obama wants Americans to believe that government is only the sum total of their efforts together. But that is nonsense.
By Barry Rubin
The Palestinian Authority is in a box of its own making. It cannot win militarily against Israel, nor will it engage in serious diplomacy with Israel.
By Barry Rubin
Perhaps if Western states studied its policies rather than endlessly criticized them they might gain from the experience.
By Barry Rubin
In other words, to speak in English in Washington to make the Americans happy is one thing; to do things in practice is something else entirely.
By Barry Rubin
When it comes to terrorism, many quarters of American society act as if race, religion and national background are taboo.
By Barry Rubin
Whatever happens, there will be a Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria and Obama will support it.
By Barry Rubin
A new paper at a Muslim Brotherhood-associated think tank has admitted that Israel is not the primary "threat" to Arab culture fingering Iran instead.
By Barry Rubin
Why are government officials, politicians, army officers, academics and journalists afraid to point out the truth?
By Barry Rubin
The works and the moderate individuals exist but they are not given support, even in Western countries, nor do they have the resources to wage the battle.
By Barry Rubin
Ironically, if Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed a peace agreement, the recruiting and encouragement of extremism in the region would be at far higher levels than it is now.
By Barry Rubin
What can the Copts do except resign themselves to continued persecution?
By Barry Rubin
If a radical movement seizes control of the state and can hold it for a very long time, it can fundamentally transform policies and foreign policy.
By Barry Rubin
A situation is being set up in which a future Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria can blackmail the United States.
By Barry Rubin
A country of 85 million people and which is heavily armed is burning with anarchy and violence is threatening genocide against a neighbor. Might this be a matter of concern?
By Barry Rubin
Even in the Dutch mass media there are shocking things written on a regular basis about Jews and Israel.
By Barry Rubin
Ignoring Abdullah's warnings, it seems the Obama administration has backed an Islamist candidate to lead the Syrian opposition.
By Barry Rubin
Obama must learn now about the dangers of Islamism or his administration will continue to be a net minus for Israel.
By Barry Rubin
Obama has not abandoned the pro-Islamist policy that has created a far more dangerous security situation for Israel.
By Barry Rubin
Perhaps these seeming word games and niceties are beyond the interest or comprehension of many people, but everyone involved directly on this issue knows exactly what is happening.
By Barry Rubin
Why help put into power and then favor people who hate you, lie about you, and want to destroy you? What is the pay-off?
By Barry Rubin
The problem of this government is more likely to be one of personalities, marginal issues that get blown up in importance, and jockeying for financial benefits for different constituencies.
By Barry Rubin
In August 2010, Obama ordered a secret report on unrest in the Arab world.
By Barry Rubin
Despite the current policy's serious problems and visibly dangerous outcomes there is no major debate it.
By Barry Rubin
Israeli officials will be very polite in discussions and sarcastic when they talk among themselves afterward.
By Barry Rubin
If the US cannot depend on its new “allies,” despite the supposed popularity of Obama and its policies in those places, then how can they be said to be allies at all?
By Barry Rubin
The Egyptian regime doesn't want a war or even a high level of conflict at this time.
By Barry Rubin
Historically, inasmuch as there was any European or American “imperialism” in the Middle East it made use of Arab political factors over Israel.
By Barry Rubin
We are going to be told often in the next two months that things are going to get better in Egypt. It's likely that they are going to get worse.
