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Arab Spring

Middle East / Levant / US / Politics

Hillary Clinton’s Emails Exposed – ‘American Support for Political Islam and Chaos’

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

Clinton’s emails are arousing resentment in moderate Arab countries as they demonstrate her apparent support for extreme Muslim elements in the Middle East and the chaos caused by the so-called Arab Spring.

Government / News Briefs / Israeli Arabs / Intifada

Cabinet to Talk on Dealing with Radical Muslim Groups

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Prime Minister will meet with radical Islamic leaders Sunday simultaneous with a clampdown on incitement.

Israel / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs

Arab Spring May Be Blowing into Gaza

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

A growing number of Arabs in Gaza are calling on people to burn down Hamas institutions.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Media

Former AP Reporter: I Didn't Leave Journalism, It Left Me

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Former AP correspondent exposes the shoddiness of modern journalism, especially about Israel.

J.E. Dyer

In the Short Run, Biden Might Well Keep his Promise that Iran Won’t Get Nukes

By J. E. Dyer

We would be fools to take seriously assurances from Joe Biden.

The Muqata

The Israeli-Arab Ice Age Begins

By JoeSettler

Even if every Jew in Israel were secular, we'd still be in a religious war with the Arab-Islamists, because for them this is a religious war for Islam's survival.

Op-Eds

Why are Feminists Not Standing Up for Israel?

By Michael Curtis

These feminists are so anti-Israel that they ignore Arab women's lack of political and social freedom

Shiloh Musings

Worth Watching: '1000 days in Syria'

By Batya Medad

Avi Lipkin talks about the Arab spring, Syria and Hillary Clinton.

Terrorism / Israel / Syria / US / Iran / News Briefs / Egypt / Iraq

Peres Hoping for a Possible ‘Iranian Spring’ Rebellion

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Shimon Peres is wonderful man. The older he gets, the more he is optimistic – and the more he is detached from reality. He foresees an “Iranian Spring.” Doesn’t he know what happened in Libya and Egypt?

Terrorism / Syria / News Briefs

Syrian Mine Blows Up Minibus; Women and Children among 21 Dead

By Jewish Press News Desk

A mine explosion as a minibus drove by on Wednesday killed 21 people, including women and children, near the birthplace of the Arab Spring revolution against the Assad regime more than three years ago. Four children and six women were among the victims in the city of Noa in the Deraa province, according to the […]

Terrorism / Israel / Middle East / Levant / US / News Briefs

Obama Tries to Buy Democracy in Egypt with Cut in Military Aid

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Strike one: Obama turns his back on Mubarak in favor of radical Muslims. Strike two: He turns his back on them and backing another non-democratic regime. Now he tries for strike three by cutting military aid.

Rubin Reports

Why US Policy Betrayed the Moderates

By Barry Rubin

Lost: Obama's Middle East policy, 2013-2016.

J.E. Dyer

Egypt: This Is Big

By J. E. Dyer

The Muslim Brotherhood is willing to keep chaos and misery going for as long as necessary to topple the military’s interim government.

Shiloh Musings

S.O.S.: USA, UN, Europe, Go Help Egypt and Leave Israel Alone

By Batya Medad

Poets love to describe "spring" as the sweet smell of flowers and freshly cut grass in the spring, but this spring smells more like the sickly stink of a lot of broken bottles of cheap perfume in a closed space.

News Briefs / Turkey / Lebanon

Turkey Warns Lebanon to Free Kidnapped Pilots

By Jewish Press News Desk

Turkey has warned Lebanon, that if the two Turkish pilots kidnapped last week aren't released, it will damage the ties between the two countries.

Interviews and Profiles

Yishai and Walid Schmoozing

By Guest Author

Our Radio guy Yishai Fleisher is joined by Walid Shantur, an Arab American hailing from a village near Ramallah whom Yishai had met in Ithaca, NY.

This Ongoing War

Hunger Games

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

The judges who sentenced him expressed regret that condemning Abdullah Barghouti to the death penalty was not an option available to them.

Middle East / Levant / News Briefs / Europe

The West Looks Forward, Muslim Immigrants Look Longingly Backward

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Anat Berko has spent 15 years interviewing those involved in every aspect of the suicide bombing industry. Her parents fled Iraq, but had been there for generations. She knows the Arab world and she warns the west that the Arab Spring is coming their way.

Sultan Knish

Savages of Socialism

By Daniel Greenfield

Most governments subsidize or price control some necessities to win over the underclass... or at least keep them from burning down everything in sight.

Op-Eds

It Was Erdoğan's Fault

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The demonstrations against Erdoğan stem from a sense among his opposition that he has crossed the line in Turkey.

Syria / Police and Crime / Iran / News Briefs / Turkey / Egypt

Erdogan’s Police May Be Using Chemical CR Gas on Protesters (Video)

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Turkey is burning. Nine days of riots. Three dead. Erdogan’s police arrest society’s enemy – Twitters. Now, a Turkish doctor charges police are using Condoleezza Rice gas, a chemical agent.

United with Israel

Ex-Jordanian Spy: Abdullah is Anti-Israel

By Rachel Avraham

Ouni Abed Botrous Hadaddeen compares the Jordanian king to Yasser Arafat, claiming that Abdullah to is two faced.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / NY / News Briefs / Religion

HRW Founder: Human Rights Must Focus on Arab Regimes' Hate Speech

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Human Rights Watch founder Robert Bernstein said that today's human rights advocates ignore the repression of basic freedoms across the Middle East and mistakenly call "free speech" and "advocacy' what is really state-sponsored hate speech.

Op-Eds

The War of Ideologies in the Arab World

By Najat Fawzy AlSaied

Radical Islamist ideology must be analyzed and challenged or the fight against terrorism wil have no end.

Interviews and Profiles

Will the Arab Spring Reach Jordan?

By Rachel Avraham

Jordanian-Palestinian activist Mudar Zahran says King Abdullah is seeking to save Himself by colluding with Islamists, Iran and Assad

Khaled Abu Toameh

Raping Women in the Name of Islam

By Khaled Abu Toameh

A fatwa allows the jihadis to have sexual intercourse with women who fall captive during war.

Daniel Greenfield

Democracy is Not the Answer

By Daniel Greenfield

The argument that democracy had made the Muslim world dysfunctional was always chancy.

Rubin Reports

The Secret Document that Set Obama's Mideast Policy

By Barry Rubin

In August 2010, Obama ordered a secret report on unrest in the Arab world.

Editorial

Unanswered Questions About Susan Rice

By Editorial Board

Ambassador Rice touted the notion of a spontaneous mob action for several days after the event despite the evidence to the contrary. On what basis did Ms. Rice promote the false storyline?

Daniel Greenfield

The Arab Street is Still Angry

By Daniel Greenfield

The American foreign policy error was to assume that the political grievances of the Arab Street could be appeased with democracy.

Rubin Reports

Why the CIA Director is Wrong: Islamism Scarier than Al Qaeda

By Barry Rubin

What the Obama Administration has done is like trying to reduce crime by turning over the cities to the Mafia and letting it make the laws and also run the police and court systems.

Rubin Reports

Who Will Morsi Heed: Allah or Tom Friedman?

By Barry Rubin

This is all a tragedy for the poor victims in the Middle East and a farce for the well-paid, much-honored careerist opportunists and ideologues in the West.

Fresno Zionism

'An Act of Stupidity That Will Resonate for Generations'

By Vic Rosenthal

According to former Mossad official Rafi Eitan, the Egyptian military was ready to announce that Ahmed Shafiq won elections, but the US pressured them to announce in favor of Morsi.

Rubin Reports

Arab Moderation Murdered in Tunisia

By Barry Rubin

In Tunesia, where non-Islamists are actually the majority, the elimination of Choukri Belaid wasn't just a crime, but a political strategy.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Egypt's Systemic Collapse

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The crisis in Port Said has exposed deep problems in Egypt's political system.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt

Conspiracy Theory Claims Muslim Brotherhood Allied with Jews

By Jewish Press Staff

Dubai Police Chief has recently attempted to discredit the Brotherhood by alleging a nefarious allegiance to Israel and Jews.

Rubin Reports

Why Current US Foreign Policy Debate Doesn't Make Sense and How to Fix It

By Barry Rubin

The issue is simply this one: When you say something or do something or spend something whose side are you on?

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Palestinians for the Dissolution of the PA

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The Palestinian youth sees what has happened in the Arab world and despite the suffering, has the feeling of "yes, we can," even if it requires blood.

Op-Eds

How to Use American Influence

By Shoshana Bryen

U.S. influence is markedly less than we – or our enemies – think it is, or ever thought it was.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Two Years Later, Arab Spring's Success Dubious

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Two years after the beginning of the upheaval in the Arab world, the picture does not arouse too much optimism.

J.E. Dyer

You Don’t Have to be Jewish to Oppose Hagel for Defense

By J. E. Dyer

Chuck Hagel writes his own narrative, in which threats aren’t really threats and policies that actually work are just horrible.

Rubin Reports

Egypt Democratically Adopts an Anti-Western Dictatorship

By Barry Rubin

The democratic opposition—like its counterparts in Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and Iran—has learned that the United States will not help them.

Rubin Reports

The Breakneck Speed of Islamist Transformation in Egypt

By Barry Rubin

What happens, then, if the regime doesn’t give in and the army doesn’t stop the demonstrations?

J.E. Dyer

Bunny Snuff Vid Shows Syrian Rebels Have Chemical Weapons

By J. E. Dyer

At least we can probably count on the Muslims Brotherhood to refrain from making bunny-snuff videos.

Op-Eds

Hamastan: The Genie in the Bottle

By Amin Farouk

The genie will be let out according to the strategic needs of Sunni Islam.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Constitutional Confusion and Contusions in Egypt

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The constitution, as important as it may be, is not a cure for the genetic illnesses of the states of the Middle East.

Op-Eds

Better Dictators than Elected Islamists

By Daniel Pipes

Ideologues are dictators on steroids who don't moderate upon reaching power but dig themselves in.

Daniel Greenfield

The Salafi Crusades

By Daniel Greenfield

The Salafi political victories, militia victories and terror attacks are all part of the same phenomenon, and it is about time that we confronted it for what it is.

This Ongoing War

Syria's Chemical Weapons May Not Be in Safe Hands

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

Those of us living just south of the Syrians intuitively understand how much more serious the consequences can be for us.

Politics / Media

Carter and Obama: 'He Who Is Merciful to the Cruel Ends Up Cruel to the Merciful'

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

A new book shows clearly the parallels between Iran during Carter's regime and today.

Op-Eds / Khaled Abu Toameh

Ethnic Cleansing of Christians in the Sinai

By Khaled Abu Toameh

In events being ignored not only by the Egyptian authorities, but also by the mainstream media and human rights organizations in the West, Muslim terrorists have in recent weeks attacked Christian families and forced them out of their homes and businesses in the Sinai town of Rafah. The terrorists have threatened to pursue their jihad against Christians until all of them leave the Sinai.

Fresno Zionism

Some Things I Believe

By Vic Rosenthal

I am a Zionist. That means that I support a Jewish state in its historical homeland. I oppose efforts to change it into another Arab state, or to kill and disperse its Jewish inhabitants. It does not mean that I think that Jews are superior to Arabs or anyone else.

Op-Eds

The US and Europe's "Oneness" Integration Project

By Daniel Greenfield

The United States did not jump into a tiger den in the Bronx Zoo. That would have been fairly sane compared to its leap into Libya. With the Arab Spring, the tigers were freed and men like Christopher Stevens jumped inside. The bloody marks on the walls of the Benghazi consulate are a grim reminder of what tigers eventually do to the men who move into their dens.

IDF & Security / Eye on "Palestine" / Settlements

IDF Ready for Escalation in Judea in Samaria, says Central Command Head

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Despite relative stability, the IDF is bracing for possible escalation of violence in Judea and Samaria, Commander of the IDF Central Command, Major General Nitzan Alon, said at a recent Rosh Hashannah ceremony attended by community leaders and mayors from Judea and Samaria.

Fresno Zionism

The President Sends a Message of Submission

By Vic Rosenthal

The Western media are not the only ones who fail to see the symbolism of raising al-Qaeda’s banner on 9/11. Our President missed it as well.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Dr. Mordechai Kedar: Iran's Culture of Deception Marks its Policies

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The Shi'a ethnic-religious tradition of pretending to be Sunni in order to avoid violent attack, even death, has resulted in a culture of deception which continues today, especially in Iran. This is reflected in Iran's dealings with the International Atomic Energy Agency and the West regarding its nuclear program and more recently when it hosted the Non-Aligned Movement conference in its capital. At the conference, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi - a Sunni - attacked Iran's ally Bashir al-Assad and his regime for slaughtering its own citizens in Syria as well as Assad’s unnamed supporters, i.e. Iran. Iran purposefully mistranslated the speech in Farsi to make it seem that Morsi was talking about Bahrain, not Syria.

Sultan Knish

Better Than They Are

By Daniel Greenfield

After Muslims killed thousands of Americans we did everything we could to learn about their religion, to celebrate it and soothe their ruffled feathers.

Op-Eds

Libya Fast Becoming the New Iraq

By Daniel Greenfield

Unlike Iraq, Libya is a back-burner issue, even if the oil-rich country is beginning to look a lot like Iraq. In defending U.S. military force there, President Barack Obama said that "To brush aside America's responsibility as a leader and -– more profoundly -– our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances would have been a betrayal of who we are." But with armed militias, car bombs going off, destruction of religious shrines, and Salafi violence, what does the current state of Libya say about who we are?

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The Sectarian Genie: The Sunni-Shi'ite Struggle Released by the Arab Spring

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

A more important and stronger phenomenon than Islamization is the escape of the factional genie from the bottle in which it was confined while dictators controlled the region.recognized the "factional genie" well , whether in the Shi'ite version or the Sunni version. The dictators took every means at their disposal, principally torture chambers, in order to deal with the factional jihadism which has no boundaries of law or ethics. Today, dictators are taken down one by one, and jihadism is flourishing.

Op-Eds

The Trouble with Tunisian Values

By Daniel Greenfield

There is no doubting the Islamist revolution in Tunisia.

Analysis / Khaled Abu Toameh

The Arab Spring: A Blessing for Hamas

By Khaled Abu Toameh

By meeting separately with Khaled Mashaal and Mahmoud Abbas, Mursi has created the impression that the Palestinians have two legitimate leaders. Even more, Mursi has put Mashaal on an equal footing with heads of state, thus granting legitimacy not only to the Hamas leader, but to his entire movement.

Israel / Global / President's Conference 2012

Former Mossad Chief: Arab Spring 'Incredible Opportunity

By Jewish Press Staff

Dagan and Ashkenazi made their comments on a panel at the 2012 Presidential Conference that included former Presidential adviser Dennis Ross. Dagan said in Egypt it matters not who votes but who counts the vote.

Analysis

Variations on the Theme of The Arab War Against Israel

By Shoshana Bryen

Israel has been threatened since birth by Arab politics in all its forms. Sometimes they send their armies to do battle. Sometimes they use terrorism. Sometimes rockets. Sometimes BDS. Sometimes what threatens Israel is the instability or potential fallout from internecine Arab warfare – as in 1970, when Palestinians threatened King Hussein; and 1991, when Saddam used rockets against Israel during a war in which Israel was not involved.

Analysis

Jordan and the 'Arab Spring'

By Missing Peace

From the outset of the revolts in other Arab countries King Abdullah was very concerned that a similar revolt could threaten his regime. He was therefore quick to announce reforms. He has also been trying to divert the attention towards Israel by blaming the Jewish state for the shortcomings and failures of the Jordanian government, just like other Arab leaders have been doing for years.

Analysis / Khaled Abu Toameh

Khaled Abu Toameh: Arabs Are Beginning to Miss the Dictators

By Khaled Abu Toameh

The "Arab Spring" is anything but a "great revolution." It is a spring of massacres, destruction and violence, as Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, the head of Lebanon's Maronite Church, put it. "We are with the Arab Spring but we are not with this spring of violence, war, destruction and killing," he told Reuters. "This is turning to winter. We cannot implement reforms by force and arms. How can it be an Arab Spring when people are being killed every day?"

News & Views / Analysis

Will Netanyahu Call Early Elections?

By Jewish Press Staff

Israeli national elections are scheduled for November 2013.

Israel / Middle East / Levant

Jordan's Queen Orders Solid Gold Shoes as King Pushes Two-State Solution

By Malkah Fleisher

Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan has commissioned a jeweler in Calcutta, India to make shoes for her out of gold.

Analysis / Khaled Abu Toameh

The Rise of Hamas & "Death to Jews!"

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Until recently, most of the Arab countries had boycotted Hamas. But now many Arab leaders are competing who will embrace Hamas stronger than the other.

News Briefs

Syrian Leader Assad Defiant in Speech to Nation

By Jewish Press Staff

Syrian President claims he still has his people's support.

Serials

Persuaded – Chapter III

By Barbara Bensoussan

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