Near East

February 25, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Weisenthal Urges Germans to Stop Business with Bank that Enables BDS

The bank was classified number 7 on the Wiesenthal Center’s 2018 top 10 list of worst outbreaks of antisemitism.

September 12, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

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...

October 28, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

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...

August 21, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

It’s War, You Idiots

It’s hard to get our minds around the dimensions of the slaughter underway in the Middle East and Africa, and harder still to see that the battlefields of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, S...

February 24, 2011 |

Why Didn’t the U.S. Foresee the Arab Revolts?

President Obama was reportedly upset that America’s intelligence community didn’t foresee the great Arab revolt. He shouldn’t be. The intelligence community comprises m...

September 9, 2008 | Michael Ledeen

The War Against the Terror Masters

The War Against the Terror Masters is a must-read guide to the terrorist crisis. Michael A. Ledeen explains in startling detail how and why the United States was so unprepared for the September 1...

August 29, 2008 | Tony Badran Beirut2Bayside

Yet Another Message to the Army

An excellent editorial from NOW Lebanon on Hezbollah's latest murderous attack against the Lebanese army. At best, Hezbollah must accept the fact t...

January 9, 2007 |

Religion of Peace?

Islam is quintessentially tolerant. Its adherents are hospitable to liberty, equality, and pluralism, the rudiments of modern democracy. Those committing terror in its name are heretics — a...

June 7, 2006 | World Defense Review |

Faith-Based Realpolitik

Notwithstanding that it is arguably one of the strangest documents in the annals of modern diplomacy, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent 18-page letter to President George W. Bus...

October 12, 2004 |

Egypt and Militant Islam

Last week, three suicide bombings within an hour left at least 34 people dead and hundreds wounded at resorts frequented by Israeli tourists in the Taba region of the Sinai Peninsula. In the afte...

September 1, 2003 | Michael Ledeen

The War Against the Terror Masters

The War Against the Terror Masters is a must-read guide to the terrorist crisis. Michael A. Ledeen explains in startling detail how and why the United States was so unprepared for the September 11th c...