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The WikiLeaks documents only confirmed the extent to which the US and Europe are concerned about the dangerous regime that has come to power in Turkey. There are already two entities in the Middle...

British Prime Minister David Cameron recently called Gaza a “prison camp.” Former President Jimmy Carter has called it a “cage.” At first glance, these characterizations of the Hamas-ruled ­province seem like rhetorical excesses designed...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a press conference in Tehran today. Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has positioned himself as a left-wing whistleblower whose life mission is to call the United States to task...

WikiLeaks revealed Sunday that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered a probe on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as well as an investigation on possible ties between UN members and terror groups such as...

Who killed Rafik Hariri? His assassination in February 2005 rocked the power arrangements in the Middle East and turned him into an overarching symbol of everything that was wrong in Lebanon. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters) It wasn't...

In October there was a debate in Cambridge; the proposition - "Israel is a rogue state". Gabriel Latner was the Cambridge University law student who was assigned by the Cambridge Union debating society to...

By The Israel Air Force (IAF) has a rich history of employing unmanned aerial vehicles in battle with excellent results, and is set to expand significantly its drone operations in the coming decades, as the...

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#search/middle+east+forum/12c06c8e5b7552af MiddleEast Quarterly Summer 2010, pp. 63-69 (view PDF) Benny Morris is professor of history in the MiddleEast Studies Department at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva, Israel. For many years, his academic...

In the early 1980s, there was a palpable concern among staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of the looming rise of an Arab-American lobby aimed at challenging the pro-Israel community. The National Association of...

Old joke: A lion and lamb share an exhibit at the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem illustrating the prophetic vision of the Messianic era. Each morning, before visiting hours, the carcass of the lamb from the previous...