‘The Neck and the Sword’ is Rashid Khalidi’s distortion of history
The Palestinian intellectual is in denial of the long history of antisemitism in the Muslim world.
Bernard Lewis
The problem with Republican isolationism
Abandoning Ukraine is no way to make America great again
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The Israeli Moment
If anyone is going to derail the Islamic Republic’s regional ambitions, Israel is really the only local counterweight that counts.
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Remember Lepanto
A great battle in a war not yet ended
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President Biden had options
He chose the worst of them
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Progress on ‘the Jewish question’
Anti-Semites suffer defeats in the U.K. and the U.S.
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Did you have a horrible Thanksgiving?
The blame-America-first crowd always does, and insists you should, too
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Iran can cause a new Holocaust, warns Islam expert in Austrian Parliament
"If there is going to be a repeat of the Holocaust, it will not be in Europe - here people have matured - but in the Middle East."
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Extremism and fragile states
Last year, Congress asked the United States Institute of Peace, a government-funded think tank, to develop “a comprehensive plan to prevent the underlying causes of extremism in fragile states in th...
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Beyond Orientalism
Bernard Lewis, the incomparable scholar of the Middle East and Islam, died last week. I cannot claim to have known Professor Lewis well, but one didn’t need to spend much time in his...
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A Historian in Full
The university flag at Princeton is flying at half-mast. It’s an appropriate tribute to Bernard Lewis, who died on May 19, less than a fortnight from his 102nd birthday. Professor Lewis was...
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The proliferation problem from hell
On the surface, Iran and North Korea could hardly be...
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Tyrants And Their Hollow States
Frankly, I’m surprised Erdogan had to settle for a photo-finish win at the wire. Not a great result for a would-be ...
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Tyrants And Their Hollow States
Frankly, I’m surprised Erdogan had to settle for a photo-finish win at the wire. Not a great result for a would-be ...
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Analysis: Is the next ‘Arab Spring’ implosion around the corner?
The alarm bells sounding the impending youth revolt is perhaps the central takeaway from the UN’s report released Tuesday on the herculean challenges facing Arab states across the Middle Ea...
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Muslims in America
One of the most striking features of the British cemetery at Gallipoli is the attention given to honoring the diversity of the dead. Final farewells from loved ones carved upon stone plaques line...
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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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Israel and Turkey’s Awkward Tango
Relations between Jerusalem and Ankara resemble a sort of clumsy tango, alternating forward steps with backward stumbling. First, the progress: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...
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Why Obama Is Wrong to Compare Himself to JFK
Speaking at American University today in defense of his nuclear deal with Iran, President Obama twice invoked President John F. Kennedy. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, while we did not serve with J...
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Defeating Civilization’s Enemies
“The enemy has to be defeated,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter last week told American forces stationed in the Middle East. That is a simple truth, one that, regrettably, is...