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...
Bernard Lewis
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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
Op-eds
The New War Against America
Last January, President Obama went over to the Pentagon to announce deep cuts in defense. He took the occasion to proclaim: “Even as our troops continue to fight in Afghanistan, the tide of...
Op-eds
“Islamophobia” and the Silencing of Dissent
In recent years, much has been written on and discussed about “Islamophobia,” that contrived prejudice that is said to attach to those who question, however sincerely, prevailing unde...
Op-eds
First the Ahmadi, Then Everybody Else
It isn’t al-Qaeda that’s slaughtering religious minorities in Muslim lands.
Op-eds
The Historian, the Diplomat, and the Spy
How the experts see the threat posed by Iran’s rulers.
Op-eds
Iran Options
Most are bad. The rest are worse. But actions must be taken.
Op-eds
Disoriented
The state of too many Western leaders ten years after 9/11/01.