Daniel Pipes
ARTICLES BY: Daniel Pipes
Opinion: The Upside of Obama’s Weak America
That the socialist French government of François Hollande just blocked a bad deal with Tehran, emerging as the hero of the Geneva negotiations, is on one...
Obama Turns His Back On Israel
Barack Obama's March 2013 trip to Israel had a too-good-to-be-true feel about it. While barely pressuring on Israel, he instructed Palestinians not to set preconditions...
Cyprus Emerges as Middle East Power Player
The Republic of Cyprus has entered the maelstrom of the world's most volatile region thanks to new-found gas and oil reserves combined with an erratic...
Is Russia Becoming ‘Muslim Russia’?
The stabbing death on Oct. 10 of an ethnic Russian, Yegor Shcherbakov, 25, apparently by a Muslim from Azerbaijan, led to anti-migrant disturbances in Moscow, vandalism and...
U.S.-Turkey Partnership is a Gigantic Blunder
A headline declaring "U.S. and Turkey to Create Fund to Stem Extremism" may look like a parody headline but it's the entirely serious title of a New...
Why Does Obama Trust Despots?
Has anyone else noted the similarity between two recent top Middle East news headlines - the telephone call between the Iranian and American presidents and the...
Israel’s Outrageous Response to Palestinian Violence
In retaliation for the shooting on Sep. 22 of an Israeli soldier, Sgt. Gabriel Koby, 20, while patrolling in Hebron, killed by a sniper with a...
Russian Deal on Syria Only Makes Things Worse
Diplomacy has never witnessed anything like the dizzying and erratic sequence of events relating to Syria that began on Wednesday, Aug. 21 and ended 3½...
Twenty Years Later, Not Much Has Changed Since Oslo
Strangely, twenty years on, I find nothing new to say about the Oslo accords signed on Sep. 13, 1993. I reread what I wrote on the 10th...
America Finds Itself Hostage to Obama’s Ego
The Obama administration's diplomatic acrobatic over Syria of the past three weeks prove that the president and his team are in way over their heads,...
Message to Congress: Forget Syria, Focus on Iran
Here's advice to the members of the United States Congress as they are asked to endorse an American-led attack on the government of Syria: Start your...
Obama’s Foreign Policy is Failing Everywhere
It's a privilege to be an American who works on foreign policy, as I have done since the late 1970s, participating in a small way...
New Evidence That Morsi Was Not Legitimately Elected
Just days after his apparent victory, Cynthia Farahat and I expressed our skepticism about the validity of these election returns: SCAF exploits the Muslim Brotherhood and other...
Is the Time Right for Danny Danon?
"Lunacy." That's how Danny Danon describes Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's decision to hand over 104 killers to the Palestinian Authority as a "goodwill gesture." He's hardly alone,...
