Tag: Arab Spring

Radical Islamist ideology must be analyzed and challenged or the fight against terrorism wil have no end.

Jordanian-Palestinian activist Mudar Zahran says King Abdullah is seeking to save Himself by colluding with Islamists, Iran and Assad

A fatwa allows the jihadis to have sexual intercourse with women who fall captive during war.

The argument that democracy had made the Muslim world dysfunctional was always chancy.

In August 2010, Obama ordered a secret report on unrest in the Arab world.

"If revolutions are suppressed they turn into armed action, and if they are ignored they expand and spread."

Ambassador Rice touted the notion of a spontaneous mob action for several days after the event despite the evidence to the contrary. On what basis did Ms. Rice promote the false storyline?

The American foreign policy error was to assume that the political grievances of the Arab Street could be appeased with democracy.

What the Obama Administration has done is like trying to reduce crime by turning over the cities to the Mafia and letting it make the laws and also run the police and court systems.

This is all a tragedy for the poor victims in the Middle East and a farce for the well-paid, much-honored careerist opportunists and ideologues in the West.

According to former Mossad official Rafi Eitan, the Egyptian military was ready to announce that Ahmed Shafiq won elections, but the US pressured them to announce in favor of Morsi.

In Tunesia, where non-Islamists are actually the majority, the elimination of Choukri Belaid wasn't just a crime, but a political strategy.

The crisis in Port Said has exposed deep problems in Egypt's political system.

Dubai Police Chief has recently attempted to discredit the Brotherhood by alleging a nefarious allegiance to Israel and Jews.

The issue is simply this one: When you say something or do something or spend something whose side are you on?

The Palestinian youth sees what has happened in the Arab world and despite the suffering, has the feeling of "yes, we can," even if it requires blood.

U.S. influence is markedly less than we – or our enemies – think it is, or ever thought it was.

Two years after the beginning of the upheaval in the Arab world, the picture does not arouse too much optimism.

Chuck Hagel writes his own narrative, in which threats aren’t really threats and policies that actually work are just horrible.

The democratic opposition—like its counterparts in Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and Iran—has learned that the United States will not help them.

What happens, then, if the regime doesn’t give in and the army doesn’t stop the demonstrations?

At least we can probably count on the Muslims Brotherhood to refrain from making bunny-snuff videos.

The genie will be let out according to the strategic needs of Sunni Islam.

The constitution, as important as it may be, is not a cure for the genetic illnesses of the states of the Middle East.

Ideologues are dictators on steroids who don't moderate upon reaching power but dig themselves in.

The Salafi political victories, militia victories and terror attacks are all part of the same phenomenon, and it is about time that we confronted it for what it is.

Those of us living just south of the Syrians intuitively understand how much more serious the consequences can be for us.

A new book shows clearly the parallels between Iran during Carter's regime and today.

In events being ignored not only by the Egyptian authorities, but also by the mainstream media and human rights organizations in the West, Muslim terrorists have in recent weeks attacked Christian families and forced them out of their homes and businesses in the Sinai town of Rafah. The terrorists have threatened to pursue their jihad against Christians until all of them leave the Sinai.

I am a Zionist. That means that I support a Jewish state in its historical homeland. I oppose efforts to change it into another Arab state, or to kill and disperse its Jewish inhabitants. It does not mean that I think that Jews are superior to Arabs or anyone else.