by Daniel Pipes April 28, 2010 updated May 2, 2010 U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said yesterday that Hezbollah now has “far more rockets and missiles than most governments in the world”, an apparent reference to Israeli reports that Damascus had supplied it with the latest version of Scud missiles, capable of carrying a […]
by Daniel Pipes May 3, 2010 While the U.S. government has a faith in Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority that borders on the mystical, some of us see them merely as the “good terrorists” (good because willing to talk to Israel) as opposed to the “bad terrorists” of Hamas (bad because unwilling to talk). […]
by Eric Golub FrontPage Magazine April 30, 2010 A conference at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on April 16, 2010, offered “Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the War on Terror.” Co-sponsored by the UCLA International Institute, the Critical Race Studies Program, and the UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near […]
by Daniel Pipes National Post April 29, 2010 [DP note: The title is slightly changed] This month, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak declared that Israel must withdraw from Palestinian territories. “The world isn’t willing to accept — and we won’t change that in 2010 — the expectation that Israel will rule another people for decades […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online April 27, 2010 “Nothing is more Western than hatred of the West.” So writes the French novelist and essayist Pascal Bruckner in his book La tyrannie de la pénitence (2006), capably translated into English by Steven Rendall and recently published by Princeton University Press as The Tyranny of Guilt: […]
by David J. Rusin • Apr 16, 2010 at 12:28 pm For Siraj Wahhaj, a New York-based radical imam, it is a time of recovery. Just as good medicine has improved his health, bad journalism is helping to improve his image. Wahhaj appeared in Philadelphia last month to announce the creation of a network of […]
by Brendan Goldman American Thinker April 15, 2010 A capacity crowd of 860 students, professionals, hijab-clad women, and others filled Cooper Union’s Great Hall on Thursday, April 8, to hear Tariq Ramadan deliver his first public address in the U.S. since the Bush administration revoked his visa in 2004. The controversial Swiss Muslim, who teaches […]
by Jeffrey Herf Yale University Press, 2009, 352 pages Reviewed by Daniel Pipes Commentary April 2010 [Differs slightly from the published version] The impact of National Socialism in the Middle East used to appear brief and superficial. Unlike with Communism, whose local parties and outside influence through the Soviet bloc lasted over many decades, the […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online April 13, 2010 Things are not always as simple as they seem; the current crisis in U.S.-Israel relations has a silver lining. Four observations, all derived from historical patterns, prompt this conclusion: First, the “peace process” is in actuality a “war process.” Diplomatic negotiations through the 1990s led to […]
by Cinnamon Stillwell • Apr 6, 2010 at 4:26 pm Teaching Middle Eastern Affairs is certainly more problematic than other regions. Due to the geopolitical realities of the ME, it is more politicized as an academic subject than any other region. As a result, academics dealing with the Middle East have the tendency to espouse […]
