It’s time to stop the Palestinian sports boycott of Israel
Jibril Rajoub's strategy to boycott and isolate Israel in sports had worked until this summer. But the reactions by FIFA and other bodies shows how weak his claims have always been.
Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
Saudi King Salman’s Audacious Power Play
“You deserve more.” That’s what Saudi Arabia’s new King Salman tweeted to his peopl...
Op-eds
New Kuwaiti Justice Minister Has Deep Extremist Ties
Officials from over sixty countries gathered in Kuwait City yesterday for a United Nations donor conference, raising ...
Op-eds
How Saudi Arabia and Qatar are the Tortoise and the Hare of the Middle East
The toppling of Mohammed Morsi in Egypt was a major setback for Qatar. The uber-wealthy Gulf emirate had pumped billions of dollars into Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood government, only to watch...
Op-eds
The Kingdom Boils
Nearly a month after a crude film caricature of the Prophet Muhammad made headlines, protests in response to it continue across the Muslim world. Yet in the ultraconservative Kingdom of Saudi Ara...
Op-eds
Black Gold And Black Veils
Women aren't allowed to drive, even to save their lives. Political parties are banned. Free speech doesn't exist.
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Moderation, Saudi-Style
Women will always be serfs under sharia.
Op-eds
WikiLeaks: The Iran-Al Qaeda Connection
A State Department cable released by WikiLeaks earlier this week contains a stunning new detail about the relationship between Iran and al Qaeda. The Saudis have privately complained to the Obama...
Op-eds
The Shape of Things to Come With Iran
Just as Egypt’s judiciary handed down convictions in the case of a Hezbollah cell that it uncovered, reports surfaced that an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps cell had also been broken up...
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The High Cost of Oil Dependence
With the price of oil over $125 a barrel and U.S. gasoline prices hovering around $4 a gallon, our nation’s energy dependence has been a top news headline. Although the economic effect of t...
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Khobar Towers
Ten years ago this Sunday, acting under direct orders from senior Iranian government leaders, the Saudi Hezbollah detonated a 25,000-pound TNT bomb that killed 19 U.S. airmen in their dormitory a...
Op-eds
A Saudi Glasnost?
By Andrew Apostolou Saudi Arabia's rulers are now paying lip-service to supporting an experiment with a Gorbachev-like program of Perestroika and Glasnost. But are they serious? If...
Op-eds
The Dysfunctional House of Saud
By Stephen Schwartz THERE COMES A TIME in the history of every oppressive state when the need for change is suddenly and widely understood to be imperative. Inevitably, an incident occur...
Op-eds
The Real Saudi Arabia
The Monday bombings in Riyadh are only the latest evidence that the Saudi government cannot and will not suppress extremism. The wake-up calls keep coming, but the U.S. refuses to recognize the k...