Four Down: Saleh No Longer Yemen’s President?

by Daniel Pipes February 25, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Three Arab dictators-for-life lost power in 2011: Ben Ali of Tunisia on January 14, Mubarak of Egypt ...

Hezbollah and Hamas in Decline

by Daniel Pipes December 21, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online In their 30- and 25-year histories, Hezbollah and Hamas have gone from strength to strength, going from simple terrorist ...

Gantz: Israel is a Strong Country

Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said that Israel is strong and will be able to face any potential conflict. In an interview on Channel 10 News Gantz said, “If you ...

U.S., Jordan Plan to Face Syrian Weapons Threat

The United States and Jordan are preparing to secure Syria’s vast stores of chemical and biological weapons in case the Syrian government loses control, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. ...

McCain Calls for Air Strikes on Syria

Senator John McCain (R–AZ) yesterday called for a U.S. military intervention in Syria that would include air strikes on Syrian government forces to protect the Syrian people. McCain said that ...

Video Blasts Obama’s Commitment to Israel

The Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI), which has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on public campaigns prior to the upcoming U.S. presidential elections and pivotal AIPAC policy conference, has ...

Pentagon Has Desk-Drawer Military Plan to Attack Syria: Report

The Pentagon has detailed plans for military action if President Barack Obama decides to intervene in a humanitarian move to stop the Syrian President Bashar Assad’s death machine that has ...

Syria: Arguing for U.S. Inaction

by Daniel Pipes February 25, 2012 updated Feb 26, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Some thoughts on U.S. policy toward Syria on the occasion of the just-ended ...

Syria Storms Out of UN Human Rights Meeting

Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva threw a tantrum and then stormed out of an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday. Faysal Khabbaz Hamoui ...

Russian President Medvedev Honors Syrian Who Praised 9/11

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recently honored a Syrian writer who praised the 9/11 attacks and once wrote about “hated Jew Shylock.” The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) quickly condemned Medvedev for presenting ...