King Abdallah Compliments President Obama, Sort Of?
July 2, 2010
http://www.gloria-center.org/blog/2010/07/king-abdallah-compliments-president-obama
According to the press pool reporter for the meeting between King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia and President Barack H. Obama of the United States, who wrote it just after stepping out of...
Geneva: A Historic and Dangerous Agreement
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4071/geneva-agreement
In terms of nuclear infrastructure Iran will be as close to getting the bomb in six months as it is today. Geneva leaves Iran with something it was never granted before: the right to...
20 Middle East Policy Questions to Ask Candidates Running for Public of Office in...
I have spent the past week covering Middle East policy issues during the presidential primaries in Pennsylvania, in my capacity as the Middle East correspondent for the Philadelphia Bulletin.
I find that people hesitate about...
Congress secretly approves U.S. weapons flow to ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-syria-rebels-20140127,0,3701116.story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Light arms supplied by the United States are flowing to "moderate" Syrian rebel factions in the south of the country and U.S. funding for months of further deliveries has been approved...
Hugo Chávez’s Jewish Problem
In December 1998, preaching a gospel of socialist revolution that had gone blessedly unvoiced in the decade following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Hugo Chávez won a landslide election for the presidency of...
ISIS Success in Iraq and Syria: Strategic Ramifications
http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=7112
Several factors are at the base of the military success of ISIS and other jihadist organizations: the structural and functional weaknesses of Arab nation states; the organizations’ networked and decentralized structure, which makes it...
When the Palestinian Army Invades the Heart of Israel
Whatever they may have accomplished or failed to accomplish politically, the Oslo accords of 1993 between Israel and Yasir Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization have transformed Israel's security situation in ways that have still not...
Incisive Commentary
December 6, 2007
"Stumbling Blocks"
Here we have, as if they were needed, more reasons why negotiating with the PA is impossible:
The Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council has passed a law (first reading) saying that any concession...
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...
Hate Radio: The long, toxic afterlife of Nazi propaganda in the Arab world
http://chronicle.com/article/Hate-Radio-Nazi-Propaganda-in/49199/
Between 1939 and 1945, shortwave radio transmitters near Berlin broadcast
Nazi propaganda in many languages around the world, including Arabic
throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and Persian programs in Iran.
English-language transcripts of the...