Happy Israel: John Kerry Complains About Israel’s Happiness

by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times June 5, 2013 N.B.: Washington Times title: “Reasons to smile in Israel” In a typically maladroit statement, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry ...

When Sunni and Shiite Extremists Make War

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online June 5, 2013 In his article “The Muslim Civil War,” Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal disagrees with my argument about Syria. He ...

Islamism’s Decade of Spreading Polio

by Daniel Pipes June 1, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The polio disease was on the verge of eradication when Ibrahim Datti Ahmed, president of the Supreme ...

Hizbullah’s Travails in a Graphic

by Daniel Pipes May 27, 2013 updated May 26, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The logo of Hizbullah, the Lebanese terror group, consists of a hand emerging ...

Muslim Heinous Acts of Beheading in the West

by Daniel Pipes May 23, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The gruesome murder yesterday of a soldier outside London by a Muslim convert, Michael Adebolajo, brings to ...

Viscount Samuel, Meet Secretary Hagel

Emerging from intense controversy, the British politician Herbert Samuel (1870-1963) was appointed the first High Commissioner of Palestine, where he served 1920-25. A Jew and an influential Zionist, Samuel bent ...

Erdogan’s Decade as Prime Minister of Turkey

by Daniel Pipes March 14, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has served longer than any person as prime minister of the Republic of ...

Education by Murder in Boston

by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times April 24, 2013 N.B.: Text differs slightly from the Washington Times What will be the long-term impact of the Apr. 15-19 Boston Marathon attack ...

Boston Bombing Lesson: Ban Niqabs and Burqas

by Daniel Pipes April 21, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The Tsarnaev brothers pulled off their terrorist attack with great skill but made a fatal mistake in ...

Obama Sends 140,000 Canisters of U.S. Teargas to Egypt’s Morsi

by Daniel Pipes April 14, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The Egyptian publication Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that the U.S. government has supplied five containers carrying 140,000 teargas ...