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:...

Incisive Commentary from the Past Ten Days

"A Pre-Sukkot Contemplation" I received an e-mail from a very serious reader (who shall remain anonymous here, as I've not received permission to use his name). Things are dire, he told me with a heavy...

Will Baker and Gates Leave Bush with a Defeatist Legacy?

As George W. Bush enters his final two years in office, he may be preparing a doctrine of defeatism authored by James Baker and Robert Gates that alienates allies and emboldens enemies. Three critical decisions...

Middle Eastern Upheavals Enter Round Two

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2011/08/middle-eastern-upheavals-enter-round-two The following replies to a question posed by National Review Online: "With Qaddafi vowing a win or martyrdom and Assad being urged to step down by the West, what has happened to the Arab...

Why Everything Reported from Gaza is Crazy Twisted

http://www.thetower.org/article/why-everything-reported-from-gaza-is-crazy-twisted/ You’re seeing civilians dying and suffering in Gaza. You’re seeing the destruction Israel’s military operation against Hamas has caused. You’re hearing from Israel that Hamas is firing rockets from crowded neighborhoods, using helpless Gaza civilians...

The Saudi Arms Deal

On August 13, 2010, several reports appeared in the US media on plans by the Obama administration to sell arms to Saudi Arabia valued at $60 billion over a period of ten years. The reported deal...

Whose taxpayers fund UNRWA?

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...

How to Defeat Hezbullah: Hold Syria Accountable

This war is unique in the history of Israel's wars. Contrary to other wars, the enemy on the other side of the border is not a state, it is an organization. Governments throughout the world, with...

Reining in Abbas: How America Should Punish the Palestinian Leader

http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/reining-abbas-how- america-should-punish-the-palestinian-lead-6028 A new budget battle is brewing between the Republican-led Congress and the Obama White House. This time it’s not about trimming domestic spending. It’s about the $600 million in annual financial assistance the United...

As Its Middle East Policy Crumbles, The Obama Administration’s Defense: It’s Not a Revolution,...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2012/09/as-its-middle-east-policy-crumbles.html So now we have the answer of the “best and the brightest” expressed in the most explicit terms by American leaders and the mass media. The problem in the Middle East is not mass revolutionary...