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Sisi is Jewish and Egypt is now under Zionist occupation.” Thus screamed a September 21, 2013 headline on Rassd, the news outlet created and backed by the Muslim Brotherhood. The story beneath the headline uses as its source the anti-Semitic conspiracy website Veterans…
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Professor David Menashri, a top expert on Iran, finds it hard to understand why the West, led by the U.S., has given up its assets against Iran • Menashri: An Iranian nuclear bomb would change the rules of the game…
read moreI was very sad to hear this morning of the passing of our friend and PJ Media contributor Barry Rubin following a 17 month battle with cancer. I know for many of us our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. It has…
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Veteran Middle East scholar and commentator Barry Rubin died on Monday, his family announced. A longtime columnist for The Jerusalem Post, Barry was director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA),…
read moreJERUSALEM — On Feb. 4, 1965, as a teenager, I left South Africa, the country of my birth, for a new home in a place I’d never been — Israel. I loved South Africa, but I loathed the apartheid system.…
read moreThe “usual” reasons why we should reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians have been joined recently by the economic argument. According to this argument, if we don’t reach an agreement in the near future, the economic boycotts against us…
read moreWe must not treat lightly the European Union decision to prohibit cooperation with those residing, operating or trading in Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem, but we should not be overly alarmed either. Why did the wrath of this directive strike…
read moreAbba Eban, Israel’s first ambassador to the United Nations, famously quipped that the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. It’s been 40 years since Eban made his wry observation, but the Arab states have once again proved him right.…
read moreThe French press agency headline says it all: “Egypt’s [President] Morsi assumes sweeping powers, branded new pharaoh.” Mursi has issued a decree giving himself virtually dictatorial powers and contradicting the assumption that he—and his Muslim Brotherhood organization—intend to rule democratically.…
read moreIn a provocative and well executed article in the July/August issue of the National Interest, “The Fading Arab Oil Empire,” Paul D. Miller, assistant professor of international-security studies at the National Defense University, argues: The geostrategic importance of the Middle East is vastly…
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