Mordechai Kedar
ARTICLES BY: Mordechai Kedar
No Longer United Against Israel: The New Arab World
For many years, it has been commonly accepted that there is an “Arab world.” That world had a unifying institution in the Arab League, a...
Turkey’s Relationship with ISIS Proves It Is Deserting Its European Allies
In view of Turkey’s increasingly divisive and destabilizing influence in the Middle East, the region’s biggest concern for the West could be President Recep Tayyip...
Do Arab States Really Support the Palestinians?
In Israel and in much of the Western world, we tend to think the Arab world is united in its support for the Palestinians --...
Hezbollah Still Runs Lebanon, and the World Will Allow It
Fatima was the prophet Muhammad’s daughter from his first wife, Khadija. Muhammad married Fatima off to his cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib, the founder and...
The Arab Chapter of the Holocaust
JNS.org - The Holocaust is naturally perceived as a fundamentally European event. It’s customary to approach it as the “Holocaust of European Jewry,” whose perpetrators were...
Why Israel Needs the Nation-State Law
Much has been published against the new Israeli Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People. Many, both in Israel and abroad, ask:...
Hamas Is an Abysmal Failure
When the “Islamic Resistance Movement” -- or Hamas, as it is better known by its Arabic acronym -- took over Gaza in 2007, pundits theorized that once...
Why Arabs and Muslims Will Not Accept Israel as the Jewish State
Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital aroused massive outrage in the Arab and Islamic world. This was for two main reasons -- one...
Why the International Community Should Follow Trump’s Lead on Jerusalem
Now that US President Trump has recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital -- and announced plans to relocate the US embassy to Jerusalem -- Arab and Muslim leaders...
World’s Betrayal of the Kurds Is a Warning Sign for Israel
The Kurdish people have an inalienable right to national self-determination, just like any other nation. The Kurds, who number some 30 million people, are the...
Is ISIS Dead? Not Really
As the city of Raqqa -- the capital of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) -- falls to the Free Syrian Army, the question is what the aftermath...
How to Prevent a New Wave of Iraqi Refugees — and Solve the Middle East
Syrian President Basher al-Assad is regaining power in his country with the help of an Iranian Shiite coalition that is made up of Iranian fighters,...
Ending the War in Syria Could Be a Disaster for Europe
Blinded by the smokescreen of the war against ISIS, the world failed to notice that Tehran was taking over considerable parts of Syria -- particularly in the sparsely...
