Obama Apologizing for Egypt’s Failure to Protect our Embassy

Posted on: September 13th, 2012

Egypt tells us everything we need to know about the horror of Obama's Middle East policy. The latest development is that a group of several Salafist and Jihadist groups--including the local affiliate of al-Qaida--announced a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy. This was explained as a protest against some obscure film made in America by a crackpot that criticizes Islam but has never actually been shown to an audience and probably never will be!

Obama is a New Kind of Leftist

Posted on: September 11th, 2012

Barack Obama is not a Communist, a fascist, a Muslim, a Marxist, a Progressive or even a socialist. Obama and those who control much of America’s academia, mass media, and entertainment industry—plus a number of trade unions and hundreds of foundations, think tanks, and front groups—are believers in a new, very American form of leftism.

A Middle East Policy for President Romney

Posted on: September 10th, 2012

The basic grand strategy for the Middle East should be to form and lead a very broad and very loose—not institutionalized—alignment of forces opposing Islamism.

Democratic Platform: No Mention of Islamist Challenge, No Support for Arab Liberals

Posted on: September 7th, 2012

When I read the platform I am shocked and disappointed. I can pick at the issues of popularity, Afghanistan and Iraq. But the failure to deal with revolutionary Islamism is ridiculously glaring (they didn’t use the tiniest fig leaf to cover themselves), making a mockery about the democracy and human rights’ pretensions. The treatment of Middle East allies is shockingly insulting. The issues of Syria and Egypt are simply dodged. There is not a single mention of the opposition in Iran. All terrorists not involved directly in the September 11, 2001, attacks are ignored. There is not the slightest hint that any regional strategy exists at all.

Egypt Kicks Sand in Obama’s Face

Posted on: September 4th, 2012

Egypt, the Arab world’s most important single country, has been turned from an ally of America—albeit an imperfect one of course—in maintaining and trying to extend Arab-Israeli peace into a leading advocate of expanding the conflict and even potentially going to war.

Democrat Convention Plan Shows Obama will Lose the Election

Posted on: September 3rd, 2012

The information released about the Democratic convention seems to show it is designed to prove how radical the party is, to play to the most limited possible sector of the population.

Where are all the Anti-Islamist Muslims?

Posted on: August 30th, 2012

Muslim communities in Europe and America hardly ever renounce terrorism or fight the Islamists. Why? Because those radical forces are in power, often with collaboration from Western leftists.

A Layman’s Guide to Revolutionary Sunni Islamism, the World’s Greatest Threat

Posted on: August 28th, 2012

It’s the age of revolutionary Islamism, especially Sunni Islamism. And you better learn to understand what this is all about real fast.

Wake Up, America, It Ain’t 1895

Posted on: August 26th, 2012

America, this is not the Victorian age of dark satanic mills and brutal capitalists who laugh while watching children starve.

What Happened in Egypt?

Posted on: August 20th, 2012

Saaed Eddin Ibrahim, arguably the Arab world’s leading sociologist and certainly the leading advocate of liberal-Islamist alliance against the old Arab military regimes has now totally changed sides, warning that the Islamists want to hijack power and establish dictatorships. He pleads for Westerners to wake up.

Which Way for Syria? Listen to the Sermons

Posted on: August 19th, 2012

A friend of mine listened to the sermon given at the Ramadan evening prayer in a village near the north Syria town of Idleeb August 7. The closer one gets to ground level in the Middle East the crazier things become. Sure, by the time the Western-educated, suit and tie wearing leader sits down with the Western reporter everything sounds calm and cool. But the earth is boiling.

Getting Priorities Wrong in Egypt and Syria: Three Media Case Studies

Posted on: August 16th, 2012

I want to discuss three articles that I basically agree with to point out how they miss the key issue and thus are somewhat misleading. I’m glad to see these three articles being published but it’s a case of -to quote Lenin- two steps forward, one step back.

Egypt: There Goes the Free Media

Posted on: August 12th, 2012

Al-Destour, an independent Egyptian newspaper, has just had a full issue seized on charges of “fueling sedition” and “harming the president through phrases and wording punishable by law.”

The Meaning of the Egypt-Israel Cross-Border Attack

Posted on: August 8th, 2012

You will be reading a lot of accounts of this event mostly saying the same things. But what’s really important?

Who’s Really Isolated? He Who Misunderstands Middle East Realities

Posted on: August 7th, 2012

Israel’s “friends” abroad simply can’t seem to get out of their minds the idea that the country faces such terrible threats that it must make big concessions and beg for peace with the Palestinians on just about any terms, or try to appease hostile surrounding countries in order to stave off their wrath.

Why I’ve Always Written So Much With Such Intensity And Why I Won’t Stop Now

Posted on: August 5th, 2012

A famous Jewish story about that is the tale of Rabbi Zosia who said that he did not expect God to berate him for not having been Moses—who he wasn’t—but for not having been Zosia.To me, that means we must do the best to be ourselves while trying to make ourselves as good as possible.

Romney Lays It Out: Progress and Success Versus Name-Calling And Bragging About Being Victims

Posted on: August 1st, 2012

Since Palestinian Authority leaders want to discuss culture, here’s one out of thousands of examples. Recently, at a cultural performance whose audience included the PA minister of culture, the songs and poetry spoke of how the main priority of raising children is to make sure they were ready to use guns—not computers—against you-know-who.

Understanding Real Israeli Politics

Posted on: July 30th, 2012

To a remarkable extent—and this has nothing to do with his views or policies—Bibi Netanyahu is the only functioning politician in Israel today. No wonder he is prime minister, will finish his current term, and will almost certainly be reelected in 2013. Consider the alternatives.

Rubin Reports: Mitt Romney Captures Jerusalem

Posted on: July 30th, 2012

Speaking to an often-cheering group of about 400 people in Jerusalem, Governor Mitt Romney gave a speech less notable for what he said than for the fact that the audience believed he was sincere in saying it.

Alger Hiss, The “Loss” of China, and the Obama Administration’s Blindspot Toward The Islamist Threat

Posted on: July 29th, 2012

When Andrew McCarthy drew a parallel between the treatment of State Department official (and Soviet spy) Alger Hiss in the 1940s and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin Weiner today it reminded me of an interesting discovery from my own research, as documented in my history of the State Department, Secrets of State.