Posts Tagged: Daniel Pipes
Has Iran Gained a Foothold in the Arabian Peninsula?
According to a sensational report by Awad Mustafa in DefenseNews, a Gannett publication, not only has Tehran signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates...
John Kerry is Completely Out of Touch With Reality
Despite all that's going on the Middle East - the Iranian nuclear buildup, the violence in Iraq, the shaking of Erdoğan's rule in Turkey, civil...
Why We Should Support the Syrian Rebels
In April 2013, I published an article with the slightly inaccurate title, "Support Assad." Better would have been "Support Whichever Side Is Losing in the...
Opinion: Conservatives Still Being Blamed for Lee Harvey Oswald
In a brilliant 2006 analysis, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism (Encounter), James Piereson showed how liberals...
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...
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...
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,...
On Closed Embassies, the Worldwide Travel Alert, and Wimpitude
In April, the city of Boston was effectively under military curfew because two terrorists were on the loose. Now, fears of al-Qaeda attacking has led...
Fixing Egypt’s Economy: No More Military Macaroni
Since July 3, Gen. Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi has made it clear who runs Egypt: he does. He faces two great challenges. One is the Islamist element,...
Islamism’s Likely Doom
As recently as 2012, it appeared that Islamists could overcome their many internal dissimilarities — sectarian (Sunni, Shiite), political (monarchical, republican), tactical (political, violent) or...
Egypt vs. Turkey: Are All Islamists Autocratic?
Mohamed Morsi's recent ejection as president of Egypt prompts a contrast-and-compare with his Turkish counterpart, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Their careers at the top...
