Lebanon

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/08/27/fed-up-saudis-look-to-russia-for-help-in-syria/ Talk about a cry for help. The Saudis have apparently judged President Obama to be rudderless in his Middle East policies, judging by their recent diplomatic moves toward Russia: They appear to have plied...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/08/by-barry-rubin-in-1848-new-communist.html In 1848, the new Communist movement issued a manifesto. It began with the opening line: “A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism.” For our purposes today, this threat might be reworded as: “A specter is...

http://www.meforum.org/3584/syria-arms As the Syrian civil war rages on with no end in sight, many advocates of U.S. intervention are claiming that an infusion of Western arms to carefully vetted rebel factions will help bring about...

http://www.meforum.org/3583/america-problems-middle-east It's 2015, and there is a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas), financed by Iran, wins an election on a platform demanding the expulsion...

http://freebeacon.com/unrwa-investigating-jordanian-official-who-quoted-hitler/ The United Nations’ refugee arm has launched an investigation into one of its top Jordanian officials after he posted on his Facebook page a “motivational” poster featuring Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Dr. Fares Haider, reportedly...

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Whose-taxpayers-fund-UNRWA-322135#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled&id=I0_1375747952821&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com&pfname=&rpctoken=43187279 The United Nations Relief and Work Agency is the only UN refugee agency dedicated to a single group of people. It is the only agency that designates individuals as original refugees if they lived...

The hazy, crazy, lazy endless days of summer are upon us and children are enjoying vacation from school, the luxury of going to bed late and then sleeping in the next morning and for...

http://www.danielpipes.org/13124/islamism-doom As recently as 2012, it appeared that Islamists could overcome their many internal dissimilarities - sectarian (Sunni, Shi'ite), political (monarchical, republican), tactical (political, violent), or attitudes toward modernity (Salafi, Muslim Brotherhood) - and cooperate....

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/07/kerry-runs-around-in-rings/ Once again a lot of people think that Secretary of State John Kerry is on the verge of making a breakthrough toward peace. The problem is that these people believe that the contenders were...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3847/egypt-punishes-palestinians The Palestinians often complain that Israel, the US and other countries keep intervening in their internal affairs. These complaints often draw much attention from the Western media and many in the international community. But when...