Barry Rubin

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-i-murdered-13-american-soldiers-at.html How do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal Hassan told us so. You’ve seen reports of a long list of things he did and said along these lines.…

Now that the UN General Assembly has endorsed the Goldstone Report–a collection of Hamas propoaganda without any independent investigation–the ball is in the court of the Obama Administration. The non-courageous abstention of Britain and France highlights that fact. Despite all…

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1256799063133&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull The great experiment of engaging Iran seems to be over but the Obama administration refuses to admit it. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. As the Iranian regime’s record shows, it stalls, maneuvers, gives vague promises and then…

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1255204772568&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Should the Palestinian Authority be the main advocate pushing acceptance of the bizarre Goldstone Report in order to demonize Israel at the UN, or might it just stand aside and let a couple of dozen Arab and Muslim-majority states…

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1254163536906&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull To say that US President Barack Obama hates, seeks to destroy and/or is pressuring Israel is a staple of the Internet rumor mill. A large portion of the far right would like to believe it. But it isn’t…

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1253198167240&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Few subjects get written about more often – and inaccurately – than the Palestinians, yet there is curiously little interest in the politics and ideology governing their behavior. The same situation applies to the man slated to become…

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249223904159&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull There are more signs that the Obama administration is switching gears on its Middle East policy. The recent visit of several US officials to Israel did not bring any major friction over the construction on settlements issue, which is…

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443851707&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Jerusalem Post, This could be the most important article I write this year. Israel has entered a new era of thinking and policy in which old categories of Left or Right, hawk or dove are irrelevant under a national…

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443809297&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull A clear US strategy is emerging in the Middle East. Unfortunately, it is a badly flawed one, as the Obama administration will likely find out over the next six months. Hopefully, it will make changes as a result.…