Posts Tagged: Daniel Pipes
What If: Fifty Years After the Six-Day War
Israel's military triumph over three enemy states in June 1967 is the most outstandingly successful war of all recorded history. The Six-Day War was also...
Response to Daniel Pipes: Why Palestinian Statehood Obviates Israeli Victory
"Of all the nations at the UN the Palestinian state would be the only one which has limits imposed on its sovereignty, the only one...
The Congressional Israel Victory Caucus: Assessing Actionable Alternatives
"The major issue is not [attaining] an agreement, but ensuring the actual implementation of the agreement in practice. The number of agreements which the Arabs...
The Congressional Israel Victory Caucus: Kudos and Caveats
"Palestinians will have to pass through the bitter crucible of defeat, with all its deprivation, destruction, and despair as they repudiate the filthy legacy of...
New Pro-Israel Congressional Caucus: Future Peace Only Possible if Palestinians Accept Defeat
The only hope for potential future peace in the Middle East is if Palestinians accept they have been defeated by the Jewish state, according to...
The Erdogan Enigma
I nominate Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, as the most inconsistent, mysterious and therefore most unpredictable major politician on the world stage. His victory...
What I Found on My Trip to a College Campus
I just attended a two-day academic conference at the University of Pennsylvania -- in part out of interest in the topic ("American & Muslim Worlds ca. 1500-1900"),...
Another Attempt at ‘Extreme Vetting’
Donald Trump first coined the phrase "extreme vetting" in July 2016, in the aftermath of the truck attack in Nice, France. For nine months, he and...
Oman: The Middle East’s Most Surprising Country
Oman, where I just spent the past week, is an Arab country unlike any other. Let me count the ways. Islam has three main branches: Sunni (about 90...
Jordan at the Precipice
Six months ago, Jordan's King Abdullah said that his country was "in dire straits." I just completed a week of intensive travels and discussions throughout the country, and found...
Inflammatory, Controversial New York Times Hurls Adjectives at Pro-Israel Americans
The New York Times has finally gotten worked up about a threat to national sovereignty in Europe. What is this supposed threat, according to a front-page “news”...
A White House Initiative to Defeat Radical Islam
Who is the enemy? It's been more than 15 years since 9/11, and still this fundamental question rattles around. Prominent answers have included evil-doers, violent extremists, terrorists, Muslims and Islamists. As an...
Linda Sarsour: The Left’s Latest Star
What to make of Linda Sarsour of Brooklyn, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against President Trump's immigration order and the new, seemingly ubiquitous symbol of the...
Israel’s American Allies
“By punishing an Israeli soldier for finishing off a wounded terrorist, you’re trying to please the wrong gentiles.” “What are you talking about? We’re living up...
