A Historian Turns 100
Twenty years ago, Bernard Lewis and I were walking along the Thames. We’d just seen a dreary English take on naughty French theater, which provoked remembrances of Paris in the 1930s when L...
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A Baleful Peace Process
To be outrageously iconoclastic among the Washington foreign-policy crowd is easy: Just suggest that the Israeli-Arab peace process is not merely pointless but actually damaging to America’...
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Benghazi Suspect Fled to Pakistan, Recently Detained in Libya
A suspect in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi has been detained in Libya, according to multiple press outlets. CNN...
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Unlikely Peacemakers
Sharon disengaged from Gaza because he wanted to disentangle the people he had spent a lifetime protecting from their nemesis.
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The Israel Lobby’s GOP Past
The influence of the late Benzion Netanyahu over his son Benjamin, the prime minister of Israel, is perhaps the most over-discussed Oedipal theme in the psycho-history of international affairs. B...
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The First Time
Desert Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia by Charles Townshend Belknap Press, 624 pp., $35 THIS BOOK IS an exquisite history of the excruciatingly diffi...
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The Egyptian Army and Obama
An unrelentingly severe critic of the fallen Tunisian dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, my longtime Tunisian taxi driver Moussa, who has lived in Brussels for 20 years, sounded an optimistic note...
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Democracy Will Prevail in Egypt and Across the Middle East
Democracy has been the dominant form of political organization in Canada and other English-speaking countries for so long that we often forget just how historically unusual it is. Until the estab...
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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...
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Who Says Islam Is Totalitarian?
Who says Islam is a totalitarian doctrine? Well, Geert Wilders does, of course. As the editors point out in Monday’s superb National Review Online editorial, the Dutch parliamentarian has e...
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Who Obama Should See in Iraq
Barack Obama is headed to Baghdad, probably within days. It’s a shame he chose to pre-empt the visit with a big speech and an op-ed on the subject. He just might learn a thing or two while...
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Putin and Russia’s Middle Eastern Policy
Auhtored by Ilya Bourtman Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently pursuing a two track policy towards the Middle East, allowing Russia to develop friendly ties with Israel...
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Kim Philby Was Here
Richard Carlson is Vice Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism. He has experience in journalism and diplomacy and is a former United State...
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How the Lebanese Won Their Freedom Back
By: Dr. Walid Phares. Since the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, four major benchmarks have had an impact on Lebanese politics: the 9/11, the Syria Accountabili...
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A Mid East American Revolution Is Coming
Since September 11, 2001, a major question crossed the minds of many U.S. citizens: What would make 19 men from the Middle East hate us so much that they would massacre 3,000 Americans? Every anc...
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9/11: A Failure of Academia
A few months ago, when the 9/11 Commission released footage of the communications between several command centers and the transportation network during the dramatic minutes of September 11, one p...
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The War is Justified by Saddam’s Evil…It Will Give Iraq a Better Future
By Richard Chesnoff There's a lot of hand-wringing over what happens to Iraq after Saddam Hussein is ousted, which he will be very shortly, now that the war has begun....