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September 12, 2012 Fate Sealed for Egypt’s Jews Outside of Israel, the Jewish community of Alexandria is perhaps the Mediterranean’s oldest, dating back to Alexander the Great’s found... September 12, 2012 Zawahiri’s Brother at Cairo Embassy Assault During the assault on the U.S. embassy in Egypt, demonstrators reportedly chanted “Obama! Obama! We are all Osama!” They yelled this obvious reference to Osama bin Laden as an al Qaed... September 12, 2012 Sanctions Won’t Stop Iran First, the good news: sanctions have helped drive Iran’s currency to its lowest level ever, ... September 11, 2012 Gaza Prepares to Declare Independence (From Palestine) It’s no secret that Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist faction that controls Gaza, has long considered exchanging its underground smuggling tunnels to Egypt for a policy of above-board trade.... September 11, 2012 The Real Rules of the U.N. Human Rights Council The good news is that genocide-tainted Sudan has withdrawn its bid to join the United Nations Human Rights Council, a move that suggests there may actually be some outer... September 11, 2012 How the Tragedy of 9/11 Made Canada a Better, More Sensible Country How much has Canada changed in the last eleven years? Consider this: As the World Trade Center rubble was still smoldering, the then-leader of Canada’s left-wing NDP party, Alexa McDonough,... September 11, 2012 The Terrorists Fight On Eleven years after the most devastating terrorist attack in history, some in America pretend that the threat of jihad or Islamist terrorism has waned to such an extent that it is no long... September 10, 2012 Iran Releases Persecuted Christian Pastor Iran has released Youcef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor, after three years of imprisonment on charges of aposta... September 10, 2012 The Post-Self-Destructivism of Judith Butler Co-authored by Richard Landes In 1938, shortly after philosopher Martin Buber, formerly of the University of Frankfurt, came to Israel to teach at Hebrew University, a reporter... September 10, 2012 LIFG and Al Qaeda: A Response to Zelin On Friday, I had a post at G&L questioning the field’s conve... September 10, 2012 AQAP Deputy Emir Reported Killed in Recent Drone Strike The Yemeni military claimed that Said al Shihri, a former Guantanamo detainee and the current deputy emir of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed in a recent military operation in Hadram... September 10, 2012 Waiting for the US on Iran is Like Russian Roulette It is no mystery that US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are not each other’s first choices for their respective jobs. Washington and Jerusalem... September 10, 2012 Why Canada Branded the Iranian Regime as Terrorists Prior to cutting diplomatic ties on Friday with Tehran, the administration of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had garnered the reputation among human rights NGOs and media commentators as... September 10, 2012 The Kurdish Factor If Syria is a testing ground for the larger struggle of the American-led order in the Middle East against the Iranian-led resistance bloc, it’s also an example of the importance of the Kurd... September 7, 2012 FDD Applauds Canada for Terminating Ties with Iran Washington, DC (FDD, September 7, 2012) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies congratulates the Government of Canada for terminating its ties with Iran. This... September 7, 2012 FDD Applauds Canada for Terminating Ties with Iran Washington, DC (FDD, September 7, 2012) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies congratulates the Government of Canada for terminating its ties with Iran. This... September 7, 2012 The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Al Qaeda, and Epistemology Yesterday I was quoted in a Spencer Ackerman article over at Wired, saying, “We don’t know... September 7, 2012 Obama Politicizes Bin Laden Raid, Again During his acceptance speech last night, President Obama claimed, “I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and we have.” The clear impli... September 7, 2012 Canada’s Extremely Worthwhile Iran Initiative Among journalists, there’s an old joke: What’s the world’s most boring headline? “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative.” Exce... September 7, 2012 US Adds Haqqani Network to List of Terror Groups The US Department of State announced that the Haqqani Network, a terror group linked to the Taliban, al Qaeda, and Pakistan's military and intelligence services, has been added to the list o... September 6, 2012 Hoover’s Lessons It was Herbert Hoover’s misfortune to be president when the stock market crashed in 1929. Three years later, Franklin Roosevelt would blame him for the Great Depre... September 6, 2012 Al Qaeda Operative Killed in Kunar Airstrike Coalition special operations forces killed yet another al Qaeda leader in an airstrike in a district that serves as a haven for the terror group in northeastern Afghanistan. Abu Saif and... September 6, 2012 Analysis: The Taliban’s ‘Momentum’ Has Not Been Broken "We've broken the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and begun the transition to an Afghan lead," President Obama said during his... September 5, 2012 6 ‘Islamist Militants’ Killed in US Drone Strike in Yemen US drones struck yet again in Yemen's eastern province of Hadramout today, killing six "Islamist militants" in a strike on a compound. Today's strike is the fourth in Yemen in eight day... September 5, 2012 The Public Sphere is Failing Because We Are Failing In late May, I met my friend and G&L colleague Jonathan Rue for drinks in Washington’s Chinatown district. The day, even as evening approached, could best be described as... September 5, 2012 Why Rachel Corrie Went to Gaza Last week an Israeli court dismissed the civil lawsuit brought b... September 5, 2012 Fatah al Islam Emir Killed While Waging Jihad in Syria Fatah al Islam, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that operates throughout the Middle East, announced the death of the leader of its Al Khilafah Brigades during an ambush in Syria. Abu H... September 4, 2012 No Red Lines in Syria Last week, Iran reportedly dispatched more of its Revolutionary Guard shock troops to Syria to prop up its ally. And with that the Obama administration lost another of its justifications for sitt... September 4, 2012 Natural Gas for Cars Co-authored by T. Boone Pickens. Recent headlines provoked by two positive but modest developments — a slight early-summer decline in gasoli... September 4, 2012 Princeton’s Iranian Agent of Influence As the Islamic Revolution has devoured its own, many Iranians have sought refuge in the West. After the fraudulent 2009 presidential elections and the crackdown that followed, the United States a... September 4, 2012 UN Brings US a New Low in Iran Diplomacy Every time you think it can’t get worse…. It’s quite bad enough that Iran is taking over the three-year chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement — one of the lar... September 4, 2012 Suicide Bomber Kills 30 Afghans in Attack at Funeral A suicide bomber killed 30 Afghans in an attack at a funeral in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar today. The suicide bomber attacked civilians at a funeral ceremony for a resident... September 4, 2012 US Drone Strike Kills AQAP Operative Involved in Limburg Tanker Attack A wanted al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operative who was involved in the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker was killed in a drone strike on Friday. And today, the US launched another strike... August 31, 2012 Bashar’s Cult of Personality Last week, the daily Al-Joumhouria published the transcripts of the surveillance tapes in the case of former mi... August 31, 2012 A Bad Joke: The Sad Reality of Jews in Europe On Sunday, 27 countries across Europe will celebrate the annual European Day of Jewish Culture 2012. What begun in 1996, near Strasbourg, France, as a local effort to open abandoned and... August 30, 2012 Disturbing Western Tepidness on Saudi Homophobia When Saudi Arabia informed the international body responsible for approving Internet domain name suffixes that it opposed the creation of a .gay category, the kingdom’s pervasive controls o... August 30, 2012 Nostra Culpa The lazy days of August were overshadowed by the latest round of speculation on whether Israel will attack Iran — an ongoing guessing game that has produced ponderous studie... August 30, 2012 The Arafat Probe is Fuel for Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theorists On Tuesday, French prosecutors announced that they had opened an inquiry into the 2004 death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Specifically, they will investigate the suspicions of Suha Arafat... August 30, 2012 US Adds 8 Lashkar-e-Taiba Members to Terrorism List The US Treasury Department has added eight Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) leaders to the list of specia... August 29, 2012 Dangerous Pakistani Taliban Commander Thought Killed A Pakistani Taliban leader who has been responsible for numerous attacks and kidnapping in the tribal areas is rumored to have been killed by a family member. The report has not been confirmed.... August 29, 2012 US Drone Strike Kills Saudi ‘Militant’ in Yemen The US killed two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a drone strike in Yemen yesterday. The strike, which reportedly killed a Saudi jihadist, is the first in Yemen more than three week... August 29, 2012 Ban Ki-moon Over Tehran Is there no point at which we conclude that the United Nations has evolved into an organization that is not just flawed, not just in need of reform, but fundamentally, structurally and incorrigib... August 28, 2012 Kenyan Muslims Riot After Murder of Shabaab-Linked Cleric Kenyan Muslims in Mombasa have rioted for the second day in a row after a Shabaab-linked cleric who was recently added to the US's list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists was gunned d... August 28, 2012 Envoy to Germany: Awardee Ignores Terror on Israel Israel’s Ambassador to Germany Yakov Hadas-Handelsman criticized on Monday the decision of the city of Frankfurt to award the Adorno prize to US professor Judith Butler.... August 27, 2012 Review: The Politics of Change in Palestine by Michael Bröning New York and London: Pluto Press, 2011. 247 pp. $30, paper Regurgitating the Palestinian meme that Israeli intransigence has made a two-state soluti... August 27, 2012 Afghan Soldier Kills Two ISAF Troops in East An Afghan soldier opened fire on Coalition soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, killing two of them before being killed himself in return fire. The attack is the latest in a string of so-called green... August 27, 2012 An Apology for Hamas The cover of Paola Caridi’s new book, Hamas: From Resistance to Government, should have served as a warning. If the title didn’t sugge... August 27, 2012 Where Should Ahmadinejad Bunk Down in New York? Plaudits to the watchdog group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), which is again tackling the mission of persuading New York City hotels to spurn Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and h... August 26, 2012 Badruddin Haqqani ‘Is Alive and Healthy,’ Taliban Spokesman Says A top spokesman for the Afghan Taliban denied reports that senior Haqqani Network leader Badruddin Haqqani was killed several days ago in a drone strike in North Waziristan. "A number of... August 24, 2012 A Perverse Quid Pro Quo "Proud to be Goyim," read the man's appropriately brown T-shirt, "Goyim" written in Hebraic-style English letters. "100% Unkosher." This was my welcome to a rally two weeks ago for...

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