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Daniel Pipes is a world-renowned Middle East and Islam expert. He is President of the Middle East Forum. His articles appear in many newspapers. He received his A.B. (1971) and Ph.D. (1978) from Harvard University and has taught at Harvard, Pepperdine, the U.S. Naval War College, and the University of Chicago. He is a board member of the U.S. Institute of Peace and other institutions. His website is DanielPipes.org.
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By Daniel Pipes
Palestinians, in other words, are not an aboriginal, autochthonous, first, indigenous, or native people; most of them are as recently arrived as Zionists. They are also as ethnically diverse.
By Daniel Pipes
The contents of the deal only made matters worse, for a desperate Israel made a majority of the concessions.
By Daniel Pipes
:I have my own idea, which is that the Israelis carefully and quickly turn the administration over to Gazans who are opposed to Hamas, opposed to the goal of destroying Israel. Gazans who are willing to live in a neighborly way next to Israel."
By Daniel Pipes
The right policy is to convince West Bankers, Gazans, and Muslim Jerusalemites that Israel is tough and permanent and that they have lost and should give up the war on Israel. Convince them to abandon their fantasy of eliminating the Jewish state of Israel.
By Daniel Pipes
INSTEAD OF LECTURING ISRAELIS, SAUDIS, AND OTHERS, KNOW-IT-ALL U.S. POLICYMAKERS SHOULD START LEARNING FROM THEM.
By Daniel Pipes
As a clandestine phenomenon, the practice of what are sometimes called Muslim Background Believers (MBBs). Iranian MBBs tend to be fervently pro-Israel.
By Daniel Pipes
It startles to realize that the academy's low reputation began so long ago and is not something recent.
By Daniel Pipes
Netanyahu has been an excellent leader, but is now the focus of national dispute.
By Daniel Pipes
80% of Jewish Israelis seek victory. Half that number are willing to pay the price for it.
By Daniel Pipes
Five Muslim parties are mainly engaged in this intricate, consequential struggle for the Temple Mount: the Palestinian Authority, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Turkey, and the Kingdom of Morocco. Each has distinctive strengths and goals.
By Daniel Pipes
This intolerance means that conservatives under the age of 45 have effectively been shut out of leading institutions
By Daniel Pipes
Israel Victory offers the only path to end Palestinian rejectionism.
By Daniel Pipes
The airport in the City of Brotherly Love. Seems, one brother is the favorite.
By Daniel Pipes
How disappointing that Jordan, which wishes to be seen as responsible and moderate, publishes such twaddle.
By Daniel Pipes
There is a brand-new game: decipher the rhetoric of Joe Biden, former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
By Daniel Pipes
Ben Gurion would reject paying a probably massive price for self-indulgent symbolism.
By Daniel Pipes
I hardly expected my article to arouse high emotions. It deals with a tactical issue distant from philosophical foundations, principles or ideology.
By Daniel Pipes
A leading conservative American commentator on Middle Eastern affairs gives six reasons to believe that taking over Palestinian territory would harm both U.S.-Israel relations and Israel's status as the Jewish state.
By Daniel Pipes
Israelis lead in the search for a COVID-19 cure is being twisted to confirm conspiracist suspicions of Israeli profiteering.
By Daniel Pipes
The Trump plan repeats the old, failed approach of promising the Palestinians benefits.
By Daniel Pipes
The Mid-East situation remains fluid...
By Daniel Pipes
Palestinian logic boils down to blackmail: You Israelis are rich, strong, and happy, so we will make you miserable unless you give us or give us access to more money. It's weird, it's sick
By Daniel Pipes
A battle pitting the mighty State of Israel against small and shrinking Jewish communities, takes place in many European countries, invariably arguing over the same subject: what the press calls far-right, populist, nativist, or nationalist parties – and what I call civilizationist parties (because they primarily aspire to maintain Western civilization).
By Daniel Pipes
Muslims show increasing indifference to the breakdown in Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy, but Leftists express growing anger over it. Thanks to a mix of Palestinian public relations expertise and continued antisemitism, the welfare of this small and powerless but fanatical population has transmogrified into the premier global issue of human rights
By Daniel Pipes
Many of Trump's Israeli and Zionist admirers, including Evangelicals, will be rudely shocked by his proposal and lash out further weakening the conservative movement and diminishing Trump's chances at re-election.
By Daniel Pipes
One day, imagine, a U.S. president tells an Israeli prime minister: “Palestinian extremism damages American security. We need you to end it by achieving victory over the Palestinians.”
By Daniel Pipes
Rabin stuck with Arafat, whom he considered, in a curious twist of logic, both a tacit supporter of terrorism and a peacemaker.
By Daniel Pipes
It's time to drop all "peace plans" and instead work for an Israeli victory, Palestinian defeat, and both sides moving forward.
By Daniel Pipes
Kedar concludes that 'Arabs and Muslims are incapable of accepting Israel as the Jewish State,' but can 'learn to live with it.'
By Daniel Pipes
Denying UNRWA money does not get to the heart of the problem, which lies not in its sponsored activities but in its perpetuating and expanding population of "Palestine refugees" in three unique, even bizarre ways
By Daniel Pipes
40 years after the Islamic Revolution, only a small minority of Iranians enthusiastically support it. This confronts the leadership with a problem: it wants to act aggressively but it understands its own fragility.
By Daniel Pipes
When it comes to Washington, Israeli concession is not the Palestinians' priority. For West Bankers, it's US . pressure on the PA to make it "more democratic and less corrupt"; for Gazans, the priority is "increased economic aid."
By Daniel Pipes
Sisi:"The religious nature of the Middle East creates challenges for the governing authorities."
By Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes's websites cannot be accessed through the British Library's system. Why? Intolerance.
By Daniel Pipes
Special Ops used to be about capturing or killing enemies; now it's about shaping public opinion.
By Daniel Pipes
As U.S. credibility and stature diminish, the president and his secretaries of state and defense engage in eloquent denial.
By Daniel Pipes
BBC: Gaza militants launch missiles at Tel Aviv in 1st rocket attack on Israeli capital since 1991 Gulf War.
By Daniel Pipes
In general, the regions these days hosts unchanging, repetitious and dreary news.
By Daniel Pipes
Oman will grant Iran a strategic location on a mountain overlooking the whole gulf region.
By Daniel Pipes
White racists invented the idea that accomplished black Americans are not Africans but "Moors."
By Daniel Pipes
"U.S. Weighing Closer Ties With Hardline Islamists in Syria"
By Daniel Pipes
Saudi media warned that the Iran regime will not be fettered by the accord.
By Daniel Pipes
Anti-Islamic sentiments in the West are increasing, probably at a faster rate than Islamic practices.
By Daniel Pipes
Dallas was a bastion of right-wing kooks with a vast legacy -- now, watch how this bastion gets blamed for the communist Oswald...
By Daniel Pipes
Barack Obama's approach pulls the United States back from its customary adult role and has it join the children.
By Daniel Pipes
Israeli responses have been stark, blunt unlike anything in memory.
By Daniel Pipes
Unlike nearby Israel, which is also surrounded, Cyprus lacks either a military option or protective fences.
By Daniel Pipes
Should the crackdown succeed in isolating, weakening, and destroying the Islamists, then others will replicate it elsewhere.
By Daniel Pipes
In Russia, Christians are declining by 0.6 percent a year and Muslims are increasing at the same rate, which will have dramatic effects over time
By Daniel Pipes
In fact, I disagree often and volubly with Israeli policies.
By Daniel Pipes
"Whoever tries to uproot us from the city of our forefathers will achieve the opposite."
By Daniel Pipes
By all accounts, the mullahs in Tehran are getting ever closer to the point where they at will can order nuclear bombs to be made and readied for use.
By Daniel Pipes
Surviving the strikes will permit Assad to boast that he defeated the United States.
By Daniel Pipes
His singular foreign policy accomplishment, trumpeted ad nauseam, was the execution of Osama bin Laden.
By Daniel Pipes
Ahmed Shafiq, the former air force commander and former president Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, actually won the presidential race by a narrow margin.
By Daniel Pipes
The point of having embassies in the first place is for them to remain open...
By Daniel Pipes
As Netanyahu appears to be making excessive and immoral concessions to the Palestinian Authority, Danon has emerged as a leading dissident ready to challenge his prime minister
By Daniel Pipes
The military has grown so large because of preferential tax treatment, subsidized labor, an extra-legal status, and old-boy networks.
By Daniel Pipes
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By Daniel Pipes
Things have never been so good in the Jewish state.
By Daniel Pipes
Far from presenting "new and diverse perspectives," this $1 million project offers the usual academic obfuscation mixed with Islamist triumphalism.
By Daniel Pipes
Other characteristically Muslim crimes taking place in Western countries include honor killings, female genital mutilation, and slave holding.
By Daniel Pipes
Islamism represents the transformation of Islamic faith into a political ideology.
By Daniel Pipes
If Assad is winning, Western governments should respond by helping the rebels to prevent Assad from crushing them.
By Daniel Pipes
Muslims make up 30 out of 31 most wanted terrorists, or about 97 percent of them.
By Daniel Pipes
Unfortunately, we who live in democracies learn best about Islamism when blood flows in the streets.
By Daniel Pipes
Sometimes one is better off when an opponent feels compelled to prove his bona fides.
By Daniel Pipes
One must expect future non-suicide bombers to turn to niqabs or burqas, as many terrorists and criminals have repeatedly done.
By Daniel Pipes
Though my suggestion to now back Assad to prevent Jihadi takeover and allow both sides to fight themselves to exhaustion was rejected, it seems now the administration is taking note of my counsel.
By Daniel Pipes
On the happy day when Assad & Tehran fight the rebels & Ankara to mutual exhaustion, Western support then can go to non-Baathist and non-Islamist elements in Syria.
By Daniel Pipes
The Egyptian publication Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that the U.S. government has supplied five containers carrying 140,000 teargas canisters to Egypt's Interior Ministry. It further reports that this shipment left Wilmington, Delaware, on Mar. 14 aboard the SS Jamestown and that it has just arrived the port of Suez. They cost the Egyptian government just under US$2.5 million. According to ministry spokesperson […]
By Daniel Pipes
What is it about Jewish organizations that they acclaim their opponents?
By Daniel Pipes
Middle East expert Daniel Pipes advocates backing Assad in Syria to keep the civil war there going.
By Daniel Pipes
Now that Israelis humiliated themselves and Erdogan is rampaging ahead, some are awakening to the fact that this apology only made matters worse.
By Daniel Pipes
This will likely be Obama's most important, most lasting and most constructive contribution to Arab-Israeli diplomacy.
By Daniel Pipes
Erdogan's government has mastered the art of provocation and is being rewarded for it.
By Daniel Pipes
To understand Obama's visit to Israel, the next four years, and European Union diplomacy, keep this strange and contorted logic in mind
By Daniel Pipes
Western powers enjoy overwhelming battlefield superiority but face great difficulty when trying to shape other countries.
By Daniel Pipes
Both Hamas and Fatah are playing the game of pretending to end violence.
By Daniel Pipes
Erdoğan can be seen as the anti-Atatürk, the leader who seeks to undo substantial parts of his predecessor's legacy, especially Atatürk's rejection of Shari'a, or Islamic law.
By Daniel Pipes
Publishing house Palgrave Macmillan apologized for appearing to endorse "the Palestinian struggle."
By Daniel Pipes
As ever, Muslims raise startling new issues and Islam drives the social and legal agenda in the West.
By Daniel Pipes
Even the modestly dressed and Islamist friendly Catherine Ashton did not escape being photoshopped.
By Daniel Pipes
Before the "8 March Revolution," Syria had been exceptionally unstable. Then came the heavy hand of the Ba'athists.
By Daniel Pipes
Extra thoughts that could not make the main text of "When AIPAC Went AWOL."
By Daniel Pipes
Assassination sends a specific signal to others not to follow in the victim's footsteps.
By Daniel Pipes
Both law enforcement, the media and elected officials are reluctant to give out information about the attackers' religion, much less their motives.
By Daniel Pipes
Government workers need to surmount their timidity and apply normal procedures even to those wearing full-body covers.
By Daniel Pipes
You expressed having had "genuine concerns" about Hagel prior to your White House meeting with him; now is the moment for you to follow the dictates of your conscience.
By Daniel Pipes
The AWACS Israel is selling to Turkey will potentially be used against Israel in the Mediterranean Sea.
By Daniel Pipes
Erdoğan's Turkey is no longer a trustworthy partner for the West but more like a mole in its inner sanctum.
By Daniel Pipes
When will American politicians and military leaders eventually realize that training foreign soldiers does not allies make them?
By Daniel Pipes
The sort of reasoning going around in Turkey regarding the Israeli strike in Syria can quickly leave one with a sore head.
By Daniel Pipes
What a launch for Kerry, whose mental vapidity promises to make Hillary Clinton actually look good in retrospect.
June 19, 2026 
