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 […]
Two Katyusha rockets reportedly fired at Eilat from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula landed in Jordan. One of the rockets fired early Thursday morning scored a direct hit on an air-conditioning storage building in the Red Sea port of Aqaba, according to reports. The second fell into the Red Sea, Israel’s Channel 10 reported. Some reports said […]
By: Jim Meyers Sen. Joe Lieberman says the world is at a “turning point in history,” and the United States should begin preparing plans to attack Iran’s nuclear program — and use that option if all diplomatic and other means fail. In an exclusive interview with Newsmax, the Connecticut independent discloses that he probably will […]
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 […]
Posted by Erick Erickson Updated: As the night goes on speculation has moved to the guy smoking on the plane and being a jerk – joking about lighting his shoe. No explosives residue has been found. ————– Today, the White House leaked that it was ditching the phrase ‘radical Islam’ from government language. Though details […]
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 […]
For the second time in less than a month, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has moved to publicly glorify mass murderers of innocent Israeli civilians. Yehiye Ayash Just today, a street next to a Presidential compound in Ramallah was renamed in honor of Yehiye Ayash, Hamas’ arch terrorist and chief bomb maker, whose advanced […]
by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com April 6, 2010 As U.S.-Israel tensions climb to unfamiliar heights, they recall a prior round of tensions nearly thirty years ago, when Menachem Begin and Ronald Reagan were in charge. In contrast to Binyamin Netanyahu’s repeated apologies, Begin adopted a quite different approach. The sequence of events started with a statement […]
by David J. Rusin • Apr 6, 2010 at 8:04 am Tariq Ramadan, Europe’s slickest Islamist, is set to appear in the United States for the first time since the Obama administration lifted a six-year-old entrance ban — imposed not to muzzle speech, as is often claimed, but because of donations he had sent to […]
Iran continues to defy international law and advance its nuclear weapons program. A newly released CIA report revealed that Iran is poised to begin producing nuclear weapons, The Washington Times reported Tuesday. “Iran continues to develop a range of capabilities that could be applied to producing nuclear weapons, if a decision is made to do so,” […]
