As I write these words, the Egyptian uprising is in its sixth day, going full blast and with no end in sight. The pressure cooker, under the iron fist of 30 years of President Hosni Mubarak’s repressive rule, had been simmering for some time. Last week, the pot boiled over. What started this wave...
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In the light of recent events in Tunisia, I find myself concerned with a sad but demonstrable fact. In struggles for power during periods of revolutionary upheaval, the most totalitarian ideology tends to win out. This is the case even when the democratic will of the people initially launched the process of revolution against...
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Iran , once again, snubbed its nose directly at the face of the United States this week, again flexing its muscles and showing that they are pulling the strings, not only in the Middle East, but in the capital of the free Western world. Just as Prime Minister Saad Hariri of Lebanon, was meeting...
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Those of us who routinely watch the Middle East, are familiar with the perennial “Zionist plot stories,” which pop up in the Muslim media as countries such as Saudi Arabia or Iran arrests the occasional “Mossad agent,” who turns out to be a vulture or a squirrel, or a pigeon. There are also the...
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Last Thursday, London’s Financial Times reported that U.S. officials are worried that Iran could deploy a new generation of centrifuges. Such devices are three times faster than the centrifuges Iran relies on now, thus shortening the time needed to enrich uranium and reach nuclear weapon status. “If they were to deploy large numbers of...
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