EINAT WILF
The Middle East as we’ve known it for the past one hundred years is unraveling right before our eyes. In its place, new and the old loyalties are raging a battle to shape the new Middle East.
Why the ‘Netanyahu Doctrine’ makes sense
EINAT WILF
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged from his meeting Monday with President Barack Obama, he may have recognized in the president a fellow proponent of the Netanyahu Doctrine: to avoid the use of force, be ready to use it.
A Call to Service by MK Dr. Einat Wilf
EINAT WILF
For the past few years, during which I had the honor and privilege of serving the citizens of Israel in the Knesset, I have kept you updated about my work.
YOUR LOCAL DICTATOR KNOWS BEST
YORIKIRII
I always knew that bombing Libya and killing Gaddafi was a mistake. Dictators are here for a reason. Only they are capable, through their ruthless characters and their sledgehammer actions, to hold a country together.
THE U.S. –TURKEY COOPERATION IN BRINGING DOWN ASSAD: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBLE SCENARIOS
BURHAN GURDOGAN
The U.S. is trying to obtain Turkey’s support in order to bring down Assad, and although the Turkish side, especially Foreign Minister Davutoglu, supports strengthening this partnership, there are some major obstacles that might cause a shift in Turkey’s attitude toward cooperation with the U.S.
ROMNEY’S REMARKABLE SPEECH IN JERUSALEM
DANIEL PIPES
Mitt Romney, the all-but-official Republican presidential candidate, delivered a stem-winder of a speech to the Jerusalem Foundation today, packing emotional support with frank policy statements.
DARK NIGHT RISING
DEREK BARRY
It was impossible not to think of the Denver shootings as I attended the new Batman movie at the local cinema tonight. This latest random mass murder could have been scripted in the film itself, though it would have been the work of a cardboard-evil mastermind rather than just an unhinged student.
CHRIS CHRISTIE’S ISLAM PROBLEM
DANIEL PIPES
A Quinnipiac poll in April showed Chris Christie the most popular potential Republican vice-presidential candidate, thanks to his budget cuts and standing up to government employee unions.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
DIMPOOL NEWS
Over the past year, while economic woes captured world headlines, an ongoing crisis of equal breadth and scope frequently went unnoticed.
UNTRUTHS ABOUT TURKEY HURT DIPLOMACY
ORRIN FORD
Rick Perry said Turkey should be expelled from NATO, and he called Turkist leaders “Islamic Terrorists.”
US WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ – MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?
IRAM RAMZAN
In the run up to the invasion of Iraq, The Sun ran the headline: ‘Brits 45 mins from doom”. Other newspapers echoed the sentiments. Saddam Hussein, it was claimed, did have weapons of mass destruction and was prepared to use them.
OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY IN A BRIEF : THE PRESIDENT AS TURKEY
BARRY RUBIN
On October 5, 1938, Winston Churchill said in the House of Commons, regarding the Munich agreement in which Britain and France forced Czechoslovakia to cede the strategic Sudetenland to Germany, leading a few months later to that country’s extinction and a year later to World War Two.