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 ...
Bernard Lewis
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Why Does Germany’s Young Generation Hold Negative Views of Israel?
The peerless Middle East historian Bernard Lewis wrote nearly 30 years ago in his groundbreaking book Semites and Anti-Semites that German guilt after the Holocaust contributed to the positive re...
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Still Needed: Regime Change in Iran
In December 2010, a Tunisian fruit-stand vendor set himself ablaze to protest the arbitrary closure of his business. Mohamed Bouazizi’s suicide sparked an upheaval in Tunisia that...
Op-eds
What Netanyahu didn’t say
What is it about Israel in general and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular that leads to so much careless reporting and tendentious commentary? Start with The New York Times,...
Op-eds
When Iran Goes Nuclear
Our attention these days with regard to security is understandably riveted on the Islamic State, or ISIS, and its hideous decapitations, rapes and live immolations. We must deal with the...
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Violent Extremist vs. Holy Warrior
Is Barack Hussein Obama wrong to avoid appending “Islamic,” “Muslim,” “Islamist,” or even “jihadist” to the terrorism that has struck the West with...
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Terrorist Attack In Paris Proves We Must Defeat The Islamist Jihadists
Ever since 9/11, Western leaders have scrambled to convince the public of two things: that terrorist acts are not driven by religious beliefs, and that Islam is a “religi...
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The Futility of Obama’s Letter Writing Campaign to Iran’s Regime
President Obama has penned at least four letters to Iran&rs...
Op-eds
Modern Jihadists
A secret CIA plot was revealed last week: Beginning almost ten years ago, the agency set in motion a plan to make Osama bin Laden...
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Do We Have To Destroy Radical Islamism In Order To Save Islam?
Is "Islamic democracy" a contradiction in terms, a big fat oxymoron? Years ago, a sympathetic French scholar wrote that Islam was inherently "totalitarian," and Bernard Lewis, when asked by Presi...
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The Jihad According to Rand Paul
Last month, at the Values Voter Summit, a gathering of conservative activists from around the country, Senator Rand Paul gave a speech on...
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U.S. Allies and Syrians Deserve Better
The Turkey-Syria border — President Obama’s overtures to the Islamic Republic of Iran – the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism since its inception in...
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The False Normalization of Iran’s Mullah Regime
Gaziantep, Turkey — The Obama administration’s overtures to the new president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, recall the great Middle East his...
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How Orientalism Shaped Obama
The White House’s response to the anti-Islam video is proof of the enduring influence of Edward Said’s ideas