For the last eighteen years, the international community has turned a blind eye and ignored every failure of the Palestine Authority to live up to the signed agreements and commitments it has made. In return for these unfulfilled promises, the Israelis gave very real tangibles, leading to their decisions to: evacuate Gaza, stop building,...
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President Jimmy Carter’s ultimate transformation into what might politely be called “a shill of Hamas” and what would less politely be termed a, “material supporter of terrorism,” is a tragedy, yet in many ways instructive. His current state looks like the final, tragic stage of the degenerative disease that could be called “peace-process-ism.” Although...
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Now this is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Sir Winston Churchill This has been a dramatic month. It is difficult to catch one’s breath over the sweeping changes that have rocked the Middle East. Over the past...
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By Sarah N. Stern and Kyle Shideler We are in the midst of an earthquake, and all of us wish for clarity and simple solutions.  After years of observing the highly repressive and autocratic regimes in the Middle East, we can’t help but identify with the dissidents in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. The government’s shutting...
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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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By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler One of the many promises made by President Obama was the desire to “repair” America’s relations with the Middle East and Muslim world. Hence speeches aimed at the Muslim world in Turkey, and Cairo, a reversal of long-time, American policy on Israeli settlements , numerous attempts to reconcile...
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EMET Advisory Board Member and Director of the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes, expands on his remarks from EMET’s recent conference at the Heritage Foundation, on the subject of the New Cold War in the Middle East: A cold war is “the key to understanding the Middle East in the 21st century.” So argue...
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(h/t Sarah Stern): Sarah pointed me to this article in the Wall Street Journal regarding Iran’s targeting of Egypt: Tehran sees Egypt as its greatest rival in the region, and the most formidable Arab bulwark opposing its influence. It is in this context that Hezbollah actions in Egypt should be assessed. Acting as a...
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The common, but false notion, that Sunni and Shia Islamist groups are like oil and water, and would “never cooperate together,” is one of those popular notions which, regardless of how many times it is proven utterly untrue, remains popular among a certain segement in the circles of foreign policy thinking regarding terror and...
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