Barry Rubin

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/07/reactionaries-take-over-academia-and.html Someday (soon?), someone will write a classic book about the decline of Western academia in the contemporary age. On the surface, of course, its apologists aver that all is well in the era of “diversity” and “political correctness.” Note…

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1245924951409&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s big policy speech received global attention. Not so that of his Palestinian Authority counterpart, Salaam Fayad, whose June 22 presentation deserves careful analysis. Fayad is prime minister for one reason only: to please Western…

http://www.gloriacenter.org/index.asp?pname=submenus/articles/2009/rubin/1_4_10-13.asp A major problem in debating about international issues nowadays is that it is so often hard or even impossible to respect our adversaries. It is quite possible to disagree with someone but to be impressed with their ability in…

The full horror of contemporary Middle East politics and debate is comprehended by few in the West, largely because they aren’t informed by their political leaders, intellectuals, and media. Occasionally, the truth emerges, as on September 11, 2001, but soon…

http://www.gloriacenter.org/index.asp?pname=submenus/articles/2008/rubin/12_6_05-12.asp India’s government faces difficult choices and no one should interfere in that hard process. Still, it is worth describing the alternatives New Delhi must ponder and what it might ask the rest of the world to do. First, of…

http://www.gloriacenter.org/index.asp?pname=submenus/articles/2008/rubin/12_6_04-44.asp For years, India has been subjected to periodic terrorist attacks throughout the country. But what happened in Mumbai is something new and different: a full-scale terrorist war. This is the kind of threat and problem Israel has been facing…

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017520759&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull We now have the perfect metaphor for the Middle East’s political situation. In Egypt, a little boy with cystic fibrosis badly needs a certain medicine. Unfortunately for him, that drug is only produced in Israel, and Egypt’s health…