Two Years of Arab and Muslim Failure
Today marks the second anniversary of the horrific attacks when Hamas militants stormed out of the Gaza Strip into nearby Israeli towns. They killed, maimed and burned 1,200 civilians in a brutal door-to-door...
Noam Chomsky
Jeane Kirkpatrick Goes to Tahrir Square — Two starkly Different Visions of the Arab Spring
Thirty-three years ago, Commentary magazine published an article by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick that stands as one of the most influential essays in the history of American foreign policy....
Op-eds
Read Me If You Can: Censorship Today
You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom Nick Cohen (London: Fourth Estate, 2012) If I complacently accept the idea that...
Op-eds
Hiding Cuba’s Crimes Behind Gay Rights Lies
On December 7, 1990, Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas ended his life. Forced into exile because of his political dissidence, and dying slowly of AIDS, he could no longer withstand the phys...
Op-eds
Iran’s March for ‘Martyrs’ in Jerusalem
Co-authored by Wahied Wahdat-Hagh Every year since 1976, on March 30, Israeli Arabs commemorate clashes with Israeli police over Israel’s land policy that left six de...
Op-eds
Among the Truthers
Do we live in the age of conspiracy? In April, after repeated prodding by then-Presidential candidate Donald Trump, Barack Obama felt compelled to release his "long form" birth ce...
Op-eds
Charlie Hebdo Attack: No More Excuses
There exists an unspoken rule in the Republic of Letters — that land where novelists, poets, mere ink-stained wretches like myself, think tank scholars who churn out dry policy reports&hell...
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Bin Laden Unplugged
Analyzing the latest video
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The ‘Bin Trotsky’ Video and the Jihadi Failure in Iraq
Has Osama bin Laden turned into Osama bin Trotsky? As I was watching bin Laden reading carefully from his prepared speech, I couldn't help but notice the dramatic drifting in the rhetoric fr...
Op-eds
Contentions The Monomania of an Anti-American Prophet
The world is full of anti-American prophets. Yet none is quite so influential, and maddeningly odd, as Noam Chomsky. On one hand, no other living scholar is cited as often or widely. On the...
Op-eds
The Gaza Flotilla: Showboating for Hamas
What’s the latest fetish shared by all of the following? Noam Chomsky, George Galloway, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), UNRWA and Code Pink. Why of cours...
Op-eds
Hamas Ahoy!
With a flotilla of "peace activists" steaming toward the blockaded Gaza strip, Israeli authorities have been worrying about a showdown turning into a public relations disaster. That's a sorr...
Op-eds
Revaluing Freedom
OSLO -- Too often in recent times Norway has embarrassed itself as a sanctimonious dispenser of devalued Nobel Peace Prizes, having more to do lately with Norway's left-leaning politics than...
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Through Our Enemies’ Eyes
Enough about you; what did Mullah Omar think of Obama's West Point speech?
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Win Over Washington One Nuke At A Time
To: The Interim Government of Honduras, Attention Interim President Roberto Micheletti From: The Hope and Change Global Consulting Service, Washington,...
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Romancing the Jihad
Why are so many on the Left enamored with Islamism?
Op-eds
Bin Laden Unplugged
Osama bin Laden's strength as an orator has always been his ethos. He is an eloquent and seemingly honest speaker, proud of his role in the attacks of 9/11, a principled spokesman for radical Islam's war against the West. Though bin Laden may not have penned all his words personally, the force of his ideas always shines through. As Bruce Lawrence notes in Messages to the World, "these messages are not ghostwritten tracts of the kind supplied by professional speechwriters to many politicians in the West, whether American Presidents, European Prime Ministers, or their Middle-Eastern counterparts."
Op-eds
Constructive Provocation
Why The Harvard Salient published those Danish cartoons and doesn't regret it.
Op-eds
Symposium: Iraq: Fight or Flight?
Co-authored by: Jamie Glaznov, Greg Bates, David Lindorff and Jed Babbin. Where are we headed in Iraq? Is it crucial to stay and fight for victory, or, as some liberal-left crit...
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Hearts and minds
By Ariel Beery There are a number of wars raging around the world right now, but none of them are more important or more pivotal than the war for the hearts and minds of the Muslim/Arab...