Israel Prepares For Assad Victory

http://www.menewsline.com/ Israel has begun preparing for the prospect of a victory by Syrian President Bashar Assad over Sunni rebels. The government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been briefed of the likelihood of an Assad victory...

Russia’s new Middle Eastern role

http://www.meforum.org/3528/russia-middle-east-role Russia has thrown a monkey wrench into Western plans for Syria by promising to deliver its top-of-the-line S300 surface-to-air missile system to the Bashar al-Assad government. Exactly when the missiles might arrive remains unclear;...

BLIND TO TERROR: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S DISASTROUS MUSLIM OUTREACH EFFORTS AND THE IMPACT ON...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/the-u-s-governments-disastrous-muslim-outreach-efforts-and-the-impact-on-u-s-middle-east-policy-blind-to-terror1/ Why has the U.S. government called certain Islamic groups supporters of terror in federal court, and then turned around and called these same organizations “moderates” and embraced them as outreach partners? In a number...

Obama Middle East Policy: Wrong Team, Wrong Ideas

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/obama-middle-east-policy-wrong-team-wrong-ideas/ In the Middle East, to paraphrase President Barack Obama’s mentor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the dodo birds are coming home to roost. At this moment, the administration’s policy team consists of CIA director John Brennan,...

Israel’s Military Prepares For Rocket Strikes

Israel's military has been ordering equipment to defend against massive missile and rocket strikes. All of Israel's military services plan to receive equipment to defend bases and other facilities. They said much of the...

Strategic Assessment, Volume 16 | No. 1 | April 2013

Contents Leading from Behind: The “Obama Doctrine” and US Policy in the Middle East Sanford Lakoff Eleven Years to the Arab Peace Initiative: Time for an Israeli Regional Strategy Ilai Alon and Gilead Sher The Emergence of the Sunni...

Happy Israel

http://www.danielpipes.org/12962/happy-Israel In a typically maladroit statement, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry recently complained that Israelis are too contented to end their conflict with the Palestinians: "People in Israel aren't waking up every day...

J Street’s Spin Reversed by CAMERA Op-Ed

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=2474 The Washington Jewish Week featured J Street, the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby in page one articles twice in April, published J Street opinion columns once that month and again in the May 16 edition,...

When Sunni and Shiite Extremists Make War

http://www.danielpipes.org/12961/syria-sunni-shiite-extremists In his article "The Muslim Civil War," Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal disagrees with my argument about Syria. He characterizes the position I hold this way: If al Qaeda fighters want to murder...

Samantha Power, Obama’s pick as America’s Ambassador to the UN, will fit right in

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/samantha_power_obamas_pick_as_americas_ ambassador_to_the_un_will_fit_right_in.html Samantha Power has been a notorious critic of Israel for years and that, naturally, makes her well-qualified under President Obama's criteria to serve in such a crucial post. She will be welcomed with open...