Noah Beck
ARTICLES BY: Noah Beck
How to Make the Case That Israel’s Actions Are Just and Proportionate
When observers describe or denounce Israeli military actions as "disproportionate," they glibly assume sweeping legal conclusions without sufficient proof or analysis. But the evidence shows...
A Letter of Thanks From Hamas to the International Media
Dear Members of the Mainstream Media, You've been awesome! Everyone knows that we start unwinnable wars with Israel because the real victory happens when you predictably...
Gaza Shows (Again) How the Underdog Can be Wrong
Sometimes the underdog is wrong. The ruthlessly brutal regimes of Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and Idi Amin were all weaker than the forces...
Obama’s Iran ‘Diplomacy’ Could Start World War III
According to a recent news report, President Barack Obama has for more than a year secretly conducted negotiations with Iran (through his adviser Valerie Jarrett) and...
Can Israel Survive Obama?
In the spring of 2012, when I wrote "The Last Israelis," I thought that the pessimistic premise of my cautionary tale on Iranian nukes was grounded in...
Are CNN’s Iran Reports Biased, Inept, or Corrupt?
Al-Jazeera bought access to U.S. public opinion when it purchased Current TV from Al Gore, but it faces stiff competition from CNN when it comes...
Iran Knows What the West Forgot: Charm is Cheap
With starry-eyed optimism, Western leaders and members of the media have recently fawned all over the new Iranian president, Hasan Rouhani, as if he had...
9/11 Reflections: 2001, 2012, and 2013
In the 16-month period following Osama Bin Laden's assassination (on May 1, 2011), national confidence increased in a way that was almost reminiscent of the...
Did Lavrov Help Obama Dodge the Syria Bullet?
Any diplomatic initiative on Syria coming from Russia, whose UN votes have perpetuated Assad's killing machine for more than two years, should be viewed with...
Obama is Spineless on Syria
On August 20, 2012, President Obama warned President Assad against using chemical weapons in Syria, declaring it a "red line." On Devember 3, 2012, Obama repeated his...
Israel and India: Two Great Democracies That Should Deepen Their Strategic Ties
At first glance, Hindu-majority India, with approximately 1.2 billion people and an entire subcontinent, would seem to have little in common with Jewish-majority Israel, which...
The Muslim War Against Christians
As Egypt's Islamists blame Christians for the ouster of Mohammed Morsi, anti-Christian violence has reached epidemic levels, with an estimated 82 churches across Egypt attacked and...
The Five Flaws of Kerry’s Mideast Peace Process
1) No Palestinian reciprocity at the outset. Israel agreed to release 104 convicted terrorists just to get the Palestinians to talk peace. Would the...
The EU’s Broken Mideast Compass
The European Union recently sent out a directive barring its 28 members from cooperating with Israeli entities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The...
