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Will someone sue the US government over politicized tax enforcement?
Does Kerry think it would be better for Israel to approach negotiations from a position of precarious poverty?
By Barry Rubin
In the 6400 words used by Obama, Islam only constitutes three of them.
Neither Secretary of State Kerry nor the president he serves seem to understand Russia's goals in the Middle East.
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.
The Russian Yakhont missiles already delivered to Syria threaten Israel Navy ships carrying out vital missions in the Mediterranean.
By Daniel Pipes
If Assad is winning, Western governments should respond by helping the rebels to prevent Assad from crushing them.
Muslim hearts and minds are the obsession of the policymakers of the dying West, but who cares about the hearts and minds of the men and women who defend us.
Israeli technologies, shared with the U.S. industry, have enhanced the U.S. employment, research & development and exports.
There is more than enough area on the Temple Mount to reach an accommodation for Jews who wish to pray there.
In the face of seemingly irrational threats from North Korea, at least one American conclusion should be obvious and prompt: Nuclear strategy is a "game" that sane world leaders must play, whether they like it, or not. President Obama can choose to play this complex game purposefully or inattentively. But, one way or another, he will have to play.
Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent embrace of the Arab Peace Initiative is, to say the least, unnerving. Certainly the response of Arab leaders to his action reflects the dangers for Israel inherent in the plan. President Obama seems to be preoccupied these days with Syria and Iran as well as serious domestic issues and is largely leaving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Mr. Kerry. But the secretary of state seems poised to roil things up without any prospect of real progress.
The Arab League is an incompetent and ineffectual body that has long been ridiculed by most Arabs.
The fourth Great War is less 'Islam against the West' than it is Sunni expansionists vs. Shiite expansionists.
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 Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Arash Farin
Too many times, the world has learned the hard way by 'turning the other cheek' while dictators terrorized both their own people and other nations.
Netanyahu made an invaluable turnabout in the way Israel explains itself. We must complete that turnabout. We must not go half way.
A fundamental inequality is evident in all expressions of the Middle East peace process.
The policy of engagement of China was enlightened, far-sighted, and generous.It was also a mistake.
By Batya Medad
With regards to Iran, the United States is reverting to its pre-World War II isolationist mode.
Anyone anyone who talks negatively about Islam is accused of bigotry and hatred on the level of the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazi party.
Blaming America and appealing to a presumed guilt will not solve the problem of Muslim radicals wishing to infiltrate, dominate, Islamize and kill Western citizens.
By Barry Rubin
Whatever happens, there will be a Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria and Obama will support it.
The United States pays about 22% of the UN’s budget, which amounted to almost than $8 billion in 2010.
Deterrence requires a credible threat. It isn’t enough to issue ominous-sounding ultimata unless they are believed.
By Daniel Pipes
Sometimes one is better off when an opponent feels compelled to prove his bona fides.
From December 2002 to January 2009, Elliott Abrams was an insider. As deputy assistant to the president and later deputy national security adviser – with the Middle East as his focus – Abrams interacted daily with such figures as President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Israeli Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert.
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 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
On the happy day when Assad & Tehran fight the rebels & Ankara to mutual exhaustion, Western support then can go to non-Baathist and non-Islamist elements in Syria.
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 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.
Fayyad has no grassroots support or political power bases among Palestinians.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Israel, for its part, knows that developing E-1 is critical for its own existence.
We must have peace in our time, the peacemakers say. And Israel must provide it.
Disarmed despots are soon-to-be-dead despots. It is a lesson the North Koreans have taken on board with understandable eagerness.
The State Dept. has forked over $4 billion to the Palestinian Authority since the Oslo Accords. Some funds go to terrorists, but the State Dept. is arguing against a suit challenging its largesse.
By Batya Medad
Even the United Nations seems occupied with problems in the Middle East much greater than anything going on in Israel.
By J. E. Dyer
Slinging force around, with press notices, is not what a strong president does.
Jordanian-Palestinian activist Mudar Zahran says King Abdullah is seeking to save Himself by colluding with Islamists, Iran and Assad
By Barry Rubin
A situation is being set up in which a future Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria can blackmail the United States.
Criticizing terror as a means while approving of its ends leads to absurdity.
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 Daniel Pipes
Middle East expert Daniel Pipes advocates backing Assad in Syria to keep the civil war there going.
By Steve Maas
Dewey Stone worked behind the scenes for the establishment of the State of Israel.
By Daniel Pipes
This will likely be Obama's most important, most lasting and most constructive contribution to Arab-Israeli diplomacy.
By Barry Rubin
Obama must learn now about the dangers of Islamism or his administration will continue to be a net minus for Israel.
Like the rest of the Arab and Islamic countries, Palestinians have been told that the U.S. is the "Great Satan" and the number one enemy of all Arabs and Muslims.
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 David Wilder
We cannot and must not allow responsibility for our security to be in the hands of anyone else but ourselves. Not at any time.
By Daniel Pipes
Western powers enjoy overwhelming battlefield superiority but face great difficulty when trying to shape other countries.
Obama's visit is costly and complicated, and will have objectives that the President thinks are important, like Israeli withdrawals.
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.
It is unthinkable that Israelis should look at Jonathan through American eyes.
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?
By Barry Rubin
Israeli officials will be very polite in discussions and sarcastic when they talk among themselves afterward.
If the U.S. is truly serious about honoring moderate Muslims, why is it not honoring those people who stick their necks out in stating their love for America and peace with Israel?
US-Israel security relations have undergone a subtle, negative change in the past four years.
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?
Visits of Western leaders complicate old problems and create new ones, and moreover, the chances that these visits will yield a positive effect or result in a real solution to any problem, is quite low.
A tangled web of non-profit political organizations reveals that George Soros is behind yet another Jewish anti-Zionist front.
It's not surprising that, especially in Egypt, the State Department had a hard time finding someone who did not share the common prejudices against Jews.
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.
The Obama administration's various policies have signaled to the mullahs that they ultimately have nothing to fear from Washington.
By Ben Cohen
What this year’s AIPAC confab proves is that there is considerable mileage in the values Israel shares not just with the U.S. but with other western states like Canada.
By Daniel Pipes
Extra thoughts that could not make the main text of "When AIPAC Went AWOL."
We'll be here, Mr. President, long after you have turned to dust, your memory not even a breeze in the wind.
The American foreign policy error was to assume that the political grievances of the Arab Street could be appeased with democracy.
By Barry Rubin
Despite Obama's disastrous Middle East policy, in practice, there have been no real, material, or huge problems in direct U.S.-Israel relations.
Overlooking incendiary rhetoric is exactly what led to the global delegitimization of Israel.
It is very doubtful that Obama, whose big plan for Afghanistan was to copy the Bush plan for Iraq that he denounced in the Senate, has a backup plan. Brennan certainly does not.
By Daniel Pipes
Assassination sends a specific signal to others not to follow in the victim's footsteps.
Once it becomes operational, the Arrow 3 will form another layer of defense over millions of Israelis.
The Gaza Strip is swarming with radical Islamist groups whose goal is to destroy Israel and the U.S. Most emerged after the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005.
By Greg Lauren
The best thing we can do is educate the next generation on what the source of our light in the world is.
Four Republican senators voted in favor of Hagel, including Rand Paul of Kentucky.
Obama, don't come...or at least have the decency to bring Jonathan Pollard home.
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.
It now remains to be seen whether Obama is aware of this attempt to put pressure on him, or whether he will continue to turn a blind eye.
In the version of events provided by Argo, it wasn't radical Islamists who stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, but the Iranian people as a whole.
By Barry Rubin
A secretary of defense should not just be a “yes-man.” He should represent an independent point of view and also represent his department’s interests.
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.
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 Barry Rubin
Obama went to sleep and he has yet to wake up. And there's graphic proof for that assertion in the streets of Benghazi today.
If the Mullahs can simply buy a usable and tested bomb design from North Korea, they could transform their status into a nuclear weapons state overnight.
Iran is waiting for the United States to flee from Afghanistan in order to take control of it and its resources.
By Barry Rubin
Obama's State of the Union address touted an American return to world leadership, but concealed the failure of Obama's policies, especially in the Middle East.
Palestinian Arab terrorism is subsidized and rewarded by money from Western sources.
By J. E. Dyer
To advance our objectives in the War on Terror there was and will be nothing to justify the extra-judicial, standoff-distance execution of a US citizen.
By Daniel Pipes
When will American politicians and military leaders eventually realize that training foreign soldiers does not allies make them?
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.
By Batya Medad
The timing of Obama's announcement, that he is davka now accepting the long-standing invitation to visit Israel is worse than rude.
Now that the U.S. is closer to energy independence, importing less oil now than at any time since 1987, the Saudis do not have anywhere near the leverage that they had in 1973.
By Barry Rubin
While such a visit would resolve previous criticism that Obama never visited Israel as president, it is a mistake, especially given the timing, for a number of reasons.
The Emergency Committee for Israel released a new web ad highlighting Chuch Hagel's confused response about U.S. policy on Iran.
What are brave United States lawmakers to make of AIPAC’s surrender?
June 21, 2026 
