Egypt and the Way of Revolutions
Nothing in politics is certain. But history offers some guides to what we can expect from the Egyptian revolution.First, revolutions are highly contagious, although the speed at which they spread...
View ArticleUS ‘Intelligence’: Blinded by Ideology
President Obama is reported to be upset that US intelligence agencies failed to foresee Egypt’s unrest, and he has apparently ordered an accounting. Experience, however, teaches that political events...
View ArticleMake Libya a No-Fly Zone
Muammar Qaddafi is willing to fight to the last Libyan to cling to power. The stakes in this mounting battle are bigger than Libya itself.One of the tragic realities of politics is that while dictators...
View ArticleLibya: The Next Great Betrayal?
The West’s refusal to come to the aid of Libya’s lightly-armed freedom fighters as they face planes, tanks, and heavy weapons may turn the Libyan civil war into the first great betrayal of the 21st...
View ArticleNothing Shocking About Kerry’s Coddling of Hamas
Israel was shocked by Secretary of State John Kerry’s diplomatic maneuvers regarding Gaza. David Horovitz, the editor of the Times of Israel, a man who takesmiddle-of-the-road positions and chooses...
View ArticleEncouraging Al-Qaeda Kidnappers with Appeasement
It turns out that financing for al-Qaeda and like groups does not come primarily from oil-rich sheikhs but from closer to home. According to a blockbuster piece of investigative journalism by the New...
View ArticleThe Left’s Fixation with Israel
“Israel has broken my heart: I’m a rabbi in mourning for a Judaism being murdered by Israel,” reads the devastating headline in Salon.com. But it turns out the author is not really a rabbi. He is...
View ArticleCivilians or Plainclothes Combatants in Gaza Death Toll?
Could it be that most of the Palestinians who died in Gaza were combatants? The claim that the vast majority were civilians fueled a global anti-Israel outpouring during the war in Gaza to which even...
View ArticleWild Rumors As News in the Arab World
During the horrible fighting in Bosnia in 1995,the Onionproposed that the US should send vowels to that country. “For six years, we have stood by while names like Ygrjvslhv and Tzlynhr and Glrm have...
View ArticleAmerican Conservatives Find Common Cause with Israel
The much-publicized episode in which Republican Senator Ted Cruz was booed and walked off the stage of a gathering of Middle Eastern Christians tells us that Middle East Christians remain anti-Israel...
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