Syrians know that Israel has been helping families who have been wounded and displaced by the war.
By Barry Rubin
Iran is a rational actor in terms of its own objectives.
Jihad will spread outwards to the region, then threaten global security -- possibly with biological and chemical weapons.
If Hamas believes Egypt wants to topple their regime, they would never dare initiate war against the Egyptian army, but firing rockets at Israel is cheap and easy.
By Ben Cohen
Rather than the “Lobby” running the administration, it is the administration that runs the “Lobby.”
It is high time we stopped empowering those who wish us ill: not just to recognize a blood-soaked regime, but to keep on recognizing it.
By giving the issue to Congress, he evades sole responsibility and makes himself look "principled."
By Paul Alster
Within hours of Morsi's departure, the streets of Cairo were awash with anti-Qatari banners accompanied by the obligatory anti-US and anti-Israel slogans.
"The occupation of Palestine and Jerusalem is a wound that has sat on the body of the Muslim world for years and needs to be removed," says Iran's new "moderate" President, and the centrifuges keep spinning.
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.
A mother doesn’t tend to call the man who freed the murderer of her child "Bibi."
Ahmadi criticizes Iranian leadership’s view of Israel as “little Satan” to the US’ “big Satan.”
