The Relegitimization of Israel and the Battle for the Mainstream Consensus: Article from the...
Joel Fishman is a historian and a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is also a member of the board of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and served as...
Turkey’s Middle East Policy of Seeking To Gobble, Gobble Up the Middle East Makes...
Spinning in his grave, indeed. for now his successors not only think they can revive a Turkish-ruled imperium but have made the very mistake of turning their backs on the West that the republic's...
The Obama Government Backs the Atrocity-Producing Forces So How Will it Stop Atrocities?
http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/05/obama-government-backs-atrocity.html
How can one write satire when the Obama Administration has created an Atrocities Prevention Board to prevent mass murder and genocide at the same time as it has been largely supporting the forces most...
NGO: UN renews rights chief Pillay without consultations on her record
http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/05/15/ngo-un-renews-rights-chief-pillay-without-consultations-on-her-record/
After Ban Ki-moon’s announcement today that he supports a two-year extension for rights commissioner Navi Pillay, a non-governmental watchdog group says that the decision was made - pending the UNGA’s rubber stamp -...
Is Islam Innately Evil? Is Islam Innately Good? Why This Debate is A Waste...
http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/05/is-islam-innately-evil-is-islam.html
We all know that the number of Muslims who explicitly put forward a systematically coherent moderate theology of Islam is very small. We also know that radical Islamists pretend to be moderates and fool...
Israeli Attack on Iran Won’t Follow the American Script
http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/jinsa-fellows/israeli-attack-iran-wont-follow-american-script
"Credible experts," wrote New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof in March, "overwhelmingly" view an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as "a catastrophically bad idea," deeming the benefits uncertain and the consequences dire: An...
The Muslim Brotherhood and Washington: Courtship and Its Discontents
http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2012/201204.tadros.muslim-brotherhood.html
Middle East Media Monitor is an FPRI E-Note series, designed to review once a month a current topic from the perspective of the foreign language press. These articles will focus on providing FPRI’s readership...
Now Anyone Can Understand That Israel Isn’t About to Attack Iran
http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/05/now-anyone-can-understand-that-israel.html
“After a winter of alarm over the possibility that a military conflict over the Iranian nuclear program might be imminent, American officials and outside analysts now believe that the chances of war in the...
Studying Antisemitism on Campus
http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1085/studying-antisemitism-on-campus
A very gallant Dr. Charles Asher Small just delivered an important lecture at the 92nd St Y. in New York. Yes, this is the same Dr. Small who, in 2004, founded the Institute for...
Here’s What Middle Eastern Moderates Actually Think and Say
http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/05/heres-what-middle-eastern-moderates.html
Over and over again I hear them: Egyptians who have lost hope that their country can be saved from Islamist dictatorship (this is what the people want, one says); the Lebanese who can no...