United States-Russian Friction: Implications for the Middle East

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=11891 Tension between Russia and the United States has risen recently, following the cancellation of President Obama’s scheduled meeting with President Putin at the G20 summit in Russia in early September 2013. The immediate background...

Weekly Commentary: Caveat emptor: policy recommendations of Israeli security officials

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=62523 It is important to put the policy recommendations of Israeli security officials - and former officials - in context. Security officials may have a good handle on the gizmos our various enemies now possess and...

The Jordan Valley: Israel’s security belt

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6929 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is once again in town trying to reach a framework agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. One of the issues of dispute is the fate of the...

Israel’s New Neighbor Egypt: Radical Nationalist President; Islamist-Dominated Parliament

By Barry Rubin May 11, 2011 http://www.gloria-center.org/ gloria/2011/05/egypt-radical- nationalist-president Amr Moussa, probably Egypt's next president, has given a comprehensive picture of his views, a foretaste of the likely policies of someone about to become the Arab world's...

Choose your enemy: Assad or Israel?

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2013/05/06/Choose-your-enemy-Assad-or-Israel-.html There is no need to support either. When Israel attacks the Syrian regime, it does so because it aims to defend its security and interests. And the same goes for us when we were happy...

Nasrallah’s Decline

The war in Syria will bring an end to the career of two prominent leaders in the Middle East. The first, that of President Bashar Assad, will end quickly, maybe even by sword or...

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...

Just Say “No”: I Get Personally Invited to Help the Obama Administration Engage–and Thus...

Director of Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of Middle East Review of International
Affairs (MERIA) Journal.