The Syrian Crisis and the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry
Dr. Benedetta Berti is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, a Young Atlanticist at the Atlantic Council, and the coauthor of Hamas and Hezbollah:...
Centcom Ignores Israel-Pal Dispute
The U.S. military no longer sees the Arab-Israeli war as a priority.
The military's Central Command, in contrast to that of the administration of President Barack Obama, has not designated either the Arab-Israeli or Israeli-Palestinian...
Why the Current U.S. Foreign Policy Debate Doesn’t Make Sense and How to Fix...
http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/01/a-totally-new-american-foreign-policy.html
Something very bad is happening with the U.S. foreign policy debate. Aside from all of the specific problems and bad appointments, the whole discussion is being conducted on the wrong assumptions and context.
There is...
The Gaddafi Precedent
There are many reasons to be worried about the bridge-leap the Obama Administration has just undertaken in its war with Muamar Gaddafi. How it will all end is just one of them.
What I find...
The Forces the Brought Crown Prince Hassan Down
The following is an adaptation of an article that appeared in The Wall Street Journal European Edition on Monday, January 25, 1999.
One might question the wisdom of the Clinton Administration's ongoing attempts to secure...
News Analysis: Wiki Leaks Puts an End to the Notion of a Link Between...
Obama and company have been insisting, with enormous perversity, that "peace" between Israel and the PA was necessary in order to make the "moderate" Arab states happy, and that until these states were satisfied,...
Israel at Peace
http://www.danielpipes.org/12145/israel-at-peace
Those concerned with the security and welfare of the Jewish state keep asking questions like "Is Israel Doomed? " and Will Israel Survive? (also in French, Israël peut-il survivre? ). One even titled a...
Libya: some good reasons to do it
http://fiammanirenstein.com/articoli.asp?Categoria=5&Id=2561
We are at a great turning point, and we must not be afraid. Aircraft carriers position themselves in the Mediterranean, NATO organizes itself, and military bases are on the move. The road of no-fly...
Jordan’s Protests: Arab Spring Lite?
http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201107.helfont_helfont.jordan.html
Samuel Helfont is a Ph.D Candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and an Associate Scholar of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Islam and Modernity (2009)...
The Palestinian Conflict with Israel is Not the Core of the Middle East Conflict
http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/evelyn-gordon/palestinian-conflict-israel-not-core-middle-east-conflict#.UKHaubJmTpw
As Syria's civil war drags on, it is increasingly destabilizing its neighbors. First, hundreds of thousands of refugees poured over their borders; now, violence has as well. Turkey and Syria have repeatedly exchanged deadly...