Hamas Ahoy!05/28/2010,
Claudia Rosett, Forbes.comWith 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 sorry reflecti...
United Nations Covers for Terrorist Buildup05/28/2010,
Dr. Walid Phares, The Washington TimesPresident Obama hosted Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the White House on Monday to talk about the growing threat that Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group, poses to the Middle East. H...
Honoring Neda Soltan's Memory05/28/2010,
Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, The Wall Street Journal EuropeOn June 1 Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will enter the majestic halls of the European Parliament to appear before its foreign relations committee. When he does, what could be more fittin...
Turkey's Return to Africa05/27/2010,
Dr. J. Peter Pham, World Defense ReviewIn the end, neither the superabundant expressions of support voiced by donor nations for the ramshackle "Transitional Federal Government" (TFG) of Somalia nor that regime's corresponding utter lack of...
The 'Second Israel'05/27/2010,
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service, Spanish translation here.Halabja, Iraq - Twenty-two years ago, in this dusty town hard up against the mountainous border with Iran, Saddam Hussein's military used chemical weapons to murder 5,000 Kurdish men, women and childr...
Moscow's Opportunism in The Middle East05/25/2010,
Tony Badran, NOW LebanonAfter a deliberately much-trumpeted visit by its president to Syria last week, Russia has been heralded, for the umpteenth time in recent years, as making a Middle Eastern comeback through Damascus. H...
The Other Mideast Conflict05/25/2010,
Jonathan Schanzer, The National Post (Canada)Earlier this year, the government of Canada announced it would discontinue its long-standing financial contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and redirect those funds to s...
A Quisling Turkey05/21/2010,
Claudia Rosett, Forbes.comBeware. With stunts such as this week's bid to deflect further sanctions on Iran, Turkey's leaders like to boast that they are creating a new role for their nation as a rising regional power and broke...
New Nuclear Deal is An Iranian Triumph05/21/2010,
Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, The Jewish ChronicleBrazil's President Ignazio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have emerged as big global players after delivering a compromise over Iran's nuclear fuel following intensive d...
Kurdistan Notebook05/20/2010,
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service, Spanish translation here.Erbil, Iraq - More than two months after elections, Iraq's parliamentarians have yet to cobble together a new government. Is this just the messiness that has to be expected in a fledgling democracy?...
Ignore Turkey and Brazil: Iran Sanctions Are A Go05/19/2010,
Mark Dubowitz, Forbes' Energy SourceJust as the momentum behind U.S. energy sanctions against Iran shifted into high gear, Turkey and Brazil this week tried to downshift with a much ballyhooed nuclear-fuel swap deal. Could Iran's ener...
Stopgap Missile Amendment Is Critical05/18/2010,
Rebeccah Heinrichs, Roll CallHouse Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee will do their best Wednesday to ensure Americans are well-protected against an Iranian missile attack. They will offer up an amendment designed ...
The Flight of the Intellectuals05/18/2010,
Tony Badran, NOW LebanonPaul Berman is someone who takes ideas - especially pernicious and toxic ones - very seriously. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Berman wrote a penetrating work, Terror and Liberalism, which del...
Sweet Home Iran05/17/2010,
Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly StandardThis past week, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman of the Associated Press reported a story that deserved to make a splash but didn't. The CIA had a highly-classified program in place "to study whether it c...
Iran's Latest Game of Charades05/17/2010,
Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, FoxNews.comIran has just announced it will ship uranium to Turkey, to be enriched and returned as fuel for Iran's nuclear energy plants. Sounds good right?
Wrong. Iran is shipping only part of its uranium -- th...
The State Department Can't Be Trusted with Iran Sanctions05/14/2010,
Jonathan Schanzer, Foreign PolicyThe U.S. Congress is very close to sending President Barack Obama a bill designed to sanction Iran's energy industry -- and potentially stop Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his coterie from ...
Paging Ambassador Susan Rice05/13/2010,
Claudia Rosett, Forbes.comIn secret ballot, the United Nations General Assembly has just elected Libya's dictatorship to one of the 47 seats on the U.N. Human Rights Council. Where in the makings of this travesty was oddly qui...
The Long and Foggy War05/13/2010,
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service, Spanish translation here.We Americans are uncomfortable with such ideas as holy wars and religiously motivated mass murder. Raised to believe in equality, tolerance and diversity, we cannot imagine slaughtering fellow human b...
US State Department Designates Two al Qaeda Leaders in Yemen05/13/2010,
Thomas Joscelyn, The Long War JournalThe US State Department has designated two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leaders under Executive Order 13224, which targets the finances of terrorists and their supporters. The two AQAP lea...
Terror Charge Upheld Despite 'Torture' Claims05/13/2010,
Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review OnlineAnti-anti-terrorists don't much care what happens to al-Qaeda so long as we're treated to the "reckoning" against Bush-administration officials promised by Eric Holder during the 2008 Obama campaign. ...