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January 21, 2011 Tempest in Tunis Much is being made about the role that social networking and other technologies played in the mass protests which forced Tunisia’s President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country, end... January 20, 2011 China: The First Mature Fascist State In 2002, I speculated that China may be something we have never seen before: a mature fascist state. Recent events there, especially the mass rage in response to Western criticism, seem to confir... January 20, 2011 Tunisia’s Anti-Israel Eliza Doolittle Christian Ortner, a commentator for the Austrian dailies Wiener Zeitung and Die Presse, picked up a golden journalistic nugget about Leila Trabelsi, the wife of Tunisia’s former authoritari... January 20, 2011 Canada Stands Up to Iran Last week, Canada’s Free Thinking Film Society — love that name — was scheduled to screen Iranium, a new documentary about the regime that has ruled Iran since 1979, its d... January 20, 2011 Sanctions Must Respond to Iran’s Anti-Gay Genocide Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's lethal homophobia requires strong medicine. The international campaign to stop the stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was sentenced to... January 20, 2011 With Stuxnet Delaying Iran’s Bomb, Is the Urgency Gone? WASHINGTON (JTA) -- In the wake of revelations that a computer virus may have set back Iran's nuclear weapons program, the Western groups and analysts that track the Islamic Republic are saying "Mo... January 20, 2011 A More Civil and Honest Public Discourse? President Obama last week refuted – clearly and commendably -- those who have been attempting to exploit the bloodbath in Tucson to smear conservative polemicists and law-abiding gun owners... January 20, 2011 Iran’s Road Rules There’s much white noise surrounding the situation in Lebanon, as several actors stir frantically on the margins. Whether it’s France’s proposal for a Lebanon “contact gro... January 20, 2011 The Ossification of Egypt After decades of looking to Egypt to provide stability in the Middle East, Washington finds Cairo contending with an increasingly dangerous combination of ossified leadership, Islamist violence,... January 20, 2011 Tunisia Vulnerable to Forces Against Democracy When his computer science degree failed to corral meaningful employment, 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi resorted to selling vegetables on the street in Sidi Bouzid to support his family of eight.... January 19, 2011 Der Spiegel Is Worried About Jewish Revenge Contentions Der Spiegel Is Worried About Jewish Revenge Benjamin Weinthal 01.19.2011 - 10:18 AM This week’s Der Spiegel magazine cover story is titled &... January 19, 2011 Enforcing Sharia, Suppressing Speech in Canada Canada’s National Post reports: After receiving threats and two suspicious letters Tuesday, the National Archives of Canada canceled the screening... January 19, 2011 Tunisia at a Tipping Point? As the situation surrounding the flight of Tunisian dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali last Friday continues to develop, the battle for the future of Tunisia is just beginning. Thousands of protest... January 19, 2011 Looking for Gitmo Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released the fourth edition of its Inspire magazine online in recent days. As with the previous three editions, the PDF publication is a combination of de... January 19, 2011 The Beginning of the End of Swiss ‘Active Neutrality’? Tuesday morning, NBC News broadcast an interview with Saad Iqbal Madni, a former Guantanamo detainee. Madni’s story is an old one and there is no real “news” here. The New... January 19, 2011 Great Decisions As the U.S. seeks to reign in rogue regimes like Iran and North Korea, do sanctions actually work? Watch the video here.... January 19, 2011 Wrong on Rauf Imam Feisal Rauf, the cleric behind the provocative Ground Zero Mosque (GZM) project, as one critic put it, “is no moderate. He presents himself as a peacemaking Islamic Gandhi, but he is i... January 19, 2011 Senior German al Qaeda leader killed in Afghanistan A German national who served as a senior member of al Qaeda's external operations branch as well as a leader in the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was killed during fighting last year in Afg... January 18, 2011 The Berlin-Rome-Tehran Axis One of those dirty secrets that broad swaths of European media and politicians avoid like the plague is the ways in which European countries are propping up Tehran’s regime and its proxies... January 18, 2011 New report: ‘Domestic Intelligence: New Powers, New Risks’ Today I was a panelist at the rollout event for a new report published by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, Emily Berman's Domestic Int... January 17, 2011 No War? Or a Just War? Some interesting responses to my NRO piece on “The War Against the Christians.” An academic, a man of the left, wrote to say that I was pushing a “paranoid right-wing fantasy.&r... January 17, 2011 Hypocrisy on Stilts On the New York Times Bloggingheads site (linked here on NRO), Adam Serwer of The American Prospect makes the case that conservatives, because of their rhetoric, were complicit in the Tucson shoo... January 17, 2011 Iranian Woman Not Stoned for Alleged Adultery Iran’s pariah regime said today that it plans to drop the death-by-stoning penalty against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was sentenced to death for alleged adultery. All this mean... January 17, 2011 Germany is Encouraging Trade with Teheran’ BERLIN – Emmanuel Nahshon, the deputy chief of mission for the Israeli Embassy in Germany, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that two seminars jointly sponsored by the German Economic Ministry... January 17, 2011 Iranian Woman Not Stoned for Alleged Adultery Iran's pariah regime said today that it plans to drop the death-by-stoning penalty against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was sentenced to death for alleged adultery. All this means is tha... January 17, 2011 The Italo-German Double Game in Iran In 2010, Germany and Italy put themselves further on the wrong side of history. Although both countries agreed last summer to support new European Union sanctions against Iran, the latest data sh... January 17, 2011 Anwar al Awlaki: Jihadists Should Steal From Disbelievers Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has released the fourth volume of its Inspire magazine online and it features a potentially revealing commentary by al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki. In an... January 17, 2011 China’s President Hu Will Visit U.S. This Week But His Country Will Continue to Test U.S. Resolve As President Obama prepares to welcome Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House this week, China is debuting new military capabilities and issuing threats of an arms race with Japan.... January 17, 2011 Fatal Intersection Although many Americans and Europeans would like to believe that contemporary Islamic fundamentalism is an exclusive subsidiary of the Koran, the sharia, and other things tribal and Islamic, the... January 16, 2011 Tunisia and the Lessons of the Iranian Revolution What happened in Tunisia over the past few days was reminiscent of scenes from Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe in the 1980s and ’90s: people’s power in action. But it is... January 15, 2011 So When Does Saudi Arabia Say Thank You to Israel? It’s a good bet that in Tehran and Pyongyang, officials will be poring with great interest over every detail in a lengthy piece in Sunday’s New York Times, all about the “digita... January 15, 2011 The United States, France, and Their Allies Cannot Allow Terror Group Hezbollah to Deny Justice On Wednesday , Hezbollah brought down Lebanon’s democratic government. The group withdrew its ministers from the cabinet, crumbling the unity government in an impeccably-timed constitutiona... January 14, 2011 Thank You for Not Packing Heat Sane and reasonable people agree that political battles should be fought with ideas, principles, and words — not guns, bullets, and bombs. But in a nation of more than 300 million, it must... January 13, 2011 Reading the Developments in Lebanon Berlin — Lebanon’s de facto government, the Iranian proxy Hezbollah, dissolved Beirut’s coalition administration on Wednesday while Lebanon’s Western-leaning prime ministe... January 13, 2011 The War Against the Christians Imagine if Muslims in Europe were being arrested for nothing more than peacefully practicing their religion. Imagine if Muslims in South America were being sentenced to death for “insulting... January 13, 2011 Côte d’Ivoire Crisis: Some Lessons to Be Learned In my review last week of Africa's likely top flash points for 2011, I expressed my concern that The year that was supposed to be Côte d'Ivoire's "ann... January 13, 2011 Dangers of Ignoring the Contrasts in Euro Hatreds It is now a commonplace in Europe to regard antisemitism and the more recent phenomenon, "Islamophobia", as much of a muchness. Yet there are important historical distinctions between the hatred... January 13, 2011 We Saw It Coming The resignation of Hezbollah and its allies from the Lebanese government was, in many ways, foreseeable. Hezbollah and Prime Minister Saad Hariri's respective positions on the Special Tribun... January 13, 2011 Mossad Playing a New Iran Game Deterrence sometimes demands taking credit for your victories - but in its covert war against Iran, Israel has rarely done so, despite its likely role in many successful sabotages of Iran's... January 13, 2011 Turkistan Islamic Party Identifies Senior Leader Killed in Afghanistan The Turkistan Islamic Party, an al Qaeda affiliate that operates in Central and South Asia, has identified a senior member of the group who was killed in a US airstrike last year in northwestern... January 12, 2011 Obama Administration Endorses ‘Jihad Rehab’ Program in Yemen The Obama administration supports the establishment of a jihad rehabilitation program in Yemen, according to remarks Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made during a town hall in the region. Clin... January 12, 2011 Julian Assange Isn’t Going to Gitmo Here is a new myth about Guantanamo. The attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claim that if Assange is extradited to Sweden he may end up detained in Cuba. The Guardian (UK) reports:... January 11, 2011 Data Shows German Trade with Iran Increased in 2010 BERLIN – Despite new rounds of UN and EU sanctions in 2010, German-Iranian export and import trade showed increases last year, according to an examination of new German government trade sta... January 10, 2011 A New Chapter for Africa On Sunday, Southern Sudanese in their millions flocked to some three thousand polling stations set up not only in Sudan, but around the world to the accommodate the far-flung diaspora, to cast th... January 9, 2011 Are EU Sanctions Influencing Iran’s Behavior? Europe's submissive attitude toward Iran and its nuclear weapons program must change, political analyst Diana Gregor, a leading expert in Central European policies vis-a-vis Iran told Benjam... January 8, 2011 The Elusive Syria Track There was a minor hoopla in recent days over reports of possible stirrings between Israel and Syria, leading to speculation of a US-sponsored secret back channel to renew peace talks on the Syria... January 7, 2011 German Left Party Seeks to Reintroduce Stalinism “We can only find the ways to communism if we get started and try them out, whether in the opposition or in the government,” Gesine Lötzsch, co-president of the German Left Party... January 7, 2011 Gitmo Detainee Transferred to Algeria The Department of Defense announced the transfer of a Guantanamo detainee to Algeria on Thursday. The detainee, Saiid Farhi (also known as Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed in US government documents), ha... January 6, 2011 Jihad 101 Last month, Americans celebrated the holidays without a terrorist attack on American soil. That should be a source of relief but not complacency. – Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria and the Ph... January 5, 2011 Welcome back, Sadr Muqtada al Sadr, the Iranian-backed, pseudo-cleric derisively known as Mullah Atari and hailed in US media circles as "the most powerful man in Iraq," has returned from his self-imposed three-yea...

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