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By David Bedein
Above Solomon’s Stables - where years ago a huge mosque was built underground, it is possible to build a synagogue.
By J. E. Dyer
The Gitmo Five were released without a prisoner exchange.
By Barry Rubin
Did President Obama have to lie in a UN speech?
By dvora
From 1993 on, the Israeli government's fundamental mistake in the war against terror was to capitulate to the terrorists’ political demands.
By dvora
Among the most important policies which must be adopted in the face of terrorism is the refusal to release convicted terrorists from prisons.
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.
In Lebanon there is a rare opportunity to cut off a significant part of one of the most important arms of the Iranian octopus, which comprises Syria and Hezbollah.
By Barry Rubin
Why would the PA keep any post-treaty commitments? We know that Hamas will not.
By J. E. Dyer
If we should have learned anything since January 2011, it’s that Middle Eastern unrest is growing because of a good half a dozen really important things other than “Israel.”
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 CAMERA
First published on CAMERA Palestinian officials and the public have long pressed for the release of Palestinian prisoners, who are revered as heroes in government-controlled Palestinian media. Over the last several decades, Israel has released thousands of such prisoners, often times as goodwill gestures. This spring, President Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly insisted in talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the release of all Palestinian prisoners, […]
It took the Europeans more than thirty years to understand that the Hizb'Allah organization, founded in 1982, is a terror organization. Good Morning, Europe!
By Barry Rubin
Does anyone notice that the Palestinians keep demanding more preconditions, Israeli concessions but never come to the table?
By J. E. Dyer
Is this the face of Christianity, as Christian Century would like to see it displayed? For my part, I repudiate it without hesitation.
By Barry Rubin
The PA will keep doing stalling tactics and come up with new preconditions that it hopes Israel will not meet.
The State Department and the White House fear Islamic terror more than anything else.
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 J. E. Dyer
Western culture as a whole lost the habit of defining authority for social purposes, and training its children to both respect and administer it.
The target of the car bomb attack was the Center for Islamist Cooperation, the operational center for many of Hezbollah's offshoot organizations.
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.
Egyptians cannot make believe that they can have both Sharia and freedom.
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.
The crowds in the streets of Egypt will increase during the month of Ramadan, which begins on July 9, and religious sensitivities will be heightened as well.
By Barry Rubin
"We have to prove to the world that we are capable of democracy..."
By J. E. Dyer
It could not have happened at all if Britain weren’t already pretty far gone.
By Barry Rubin
No Jew need ever starve, because they always make a good living as a critic of Israel.
By Barry Rubin
Al Gore has sold out his admittedly obscure channel to al-Jazeera and taken a position on its board.
By Barry Rubin
"He who tells the truth is driven from nine villages" -- Turkish proverb.
By Steven Plaut
It began as just another exercise in political academic wackiness at Hebrew University. A graduate student there claimed that the absence of any history of rapes of Arab women by Israeli soldiers proves that Jews are racists and oppressors, people who do not even regard Arab women as sexually desirable. The student at the Mount Scopus campus and her “research” were then awarded a university honor for these impressive “discoveries.”
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 Nadia Matar
The gradual annexation of Area ‘C’ territories by the Palestinian Authority.
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 Ben Sales
Adding Turkey to the list of volatile states would mean even more uncertainty for Israel.
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?
Egypt is like a car with ninety million problems, and to describe it as a 'total loss' is to understate the situation.
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?
Shavuot reflects the centrality of 'seven' in Judaism.
By Barry Rubin
Even Muslim Brotherhood think-tanks have said that the Shia, and especially Iran, are more dangerous threats than is Israel.
Throughout all of history, did an Emir, Sultan Caliph or Arab or Islamic King rule in Jerusalem even for one day?
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.
Israeli technologies, shared with the U.S. industry, have enhanced the U.S. employment, research & development and exports.
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.
When the borders of a state are breached, its existence as a state is undermined.
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 J. E. Dyer
This is the second time reports have surfaced that Israel hit Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Center.
By Barry Rubin
Whatever happens, there will be a Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria and Obama will support it.
Though it can boast many achievements, in Fisher's view, 'The state of Israel’s economy is very good, not excellent as it was in recent years.'
By Erez Tadmor
Israel’s 'most respected newspaper' is a case study in the collapse of modern journalism.
Killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen Muslim, has been identified by the FBI as a “strong believer” in Islam, and an adept of jihadism. Tamerlan was unabashed in his Muslim piety and avowal of jihad—the latter bringing him to the attention of both Russian intelligence and the FBI. Indeed, Tamerlan Tsarnaev […]
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 J. E. Dyer
Ghe Iran nuclear problem is not one that can be dealt with via a small, pinpoint strike, in a matter of only minutes on target.
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.
The infamous hadith about the Jew hiding behind a tree is not some apocrophyl canon held in esteem by an unimportant few, but runs parallel to anti-Jewish motifs throughout the Koran.
By J. E. Dyer
It is not obvious that any group or type of person in particular mounted this one, nor can any be ruled out.
Straight from the Jerusalem boardroom: Companies around the world invest millions in Israel.
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 J. E. Dyer
Slinging force around, with press notices, is not what a strong president does.
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 J. E. Dyer
Based on the Associated Press's definition, whom exactly can a reporter call an Islamist?
As the #OpIsrael cyberattack against Israel began, Israeli hacker retaliated, and now the official #OpIsrael site www.opisrael.com is playing Hatikvah.
Democracy does not have to allow jihad to be waged against it, even if this jihad uses means that appear to be legal.
By Barry Rubin
Even in the Dutch mass media there are shocking things written on a regular basis about Jews and Israel.
By J. E. Dyer
Now is a good time for the EU to take stock and recognize that the entire Cyprus problem, like the Greece problem, was created by the actions of government.
By Barry Rubin
Ignoring Abdullah's warnings, it seems the Obama administration has backed an Islamist candidate to lead the Syrian opposition.
Connections between the Jewish and American traditions of liberty.
The civil servants at Israel's foreign ministry seem to believe it is their job to shape government policy rather than to be faithful to it.
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 J. E. Dyer
Nukes aren’t something you wave around like a drunk brandishing a knife.
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?
August 7, 2026 
