By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler “The depiction of Khomeini as a fanatical reactionary and the bearer of crude prejudices seems certainly and happily false. What is encouraging is that his entourage of close advisers is uniformly composed of moderate, progressive individuals.” — Richard Falk, The New York Times, February 16, 1979 The Middle...
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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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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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With gratitude toward that person of dubious repute, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, many of us  now know with  one hundred  per cent certitude what our instincts have been telling us for years:  The Sunni Arab world, and in particular Saudi Arabia, despises and fears Iran, and their concerns for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is exceedingly...
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The U.S-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other members of his government reportedly are meeting with members of the Taliban to discuss a possible peace deal. According to The New York Times, the meetings apparently include members of the Taliban’s highest authority, the Quetta Shura, as well as members of the Haqqani network, although...
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“Get your facts first…then you can distort them as you please”- Mark Twain I left Israel, this week, with a heavy heart, wondering how the tables have been turned around so dramatically and in so remarkably short a time, against the Jewish state. It is with  incredible deft, that a physical war to eradicate...
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It is a part of the US Code of Law, (Title 22, Chapter 39, subchapter III, section2776), that the President of the United States should transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a report that certifies that “any proposed sale or export of...
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By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler Last week, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth reported that American Taxpayer dollars,  a quarter of a million dollars through USAID, were being used to fund a series of advertisements in Israel, featuring leaders of the Palestinian Authority assuring Israeli citizens that they are reliable partners for peace and asking...
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“When the pursuit of peace becomes the entire objective of foreign policy, it becomes a weapon in the hands of the most ruthless. It produces moral disarmament.” —Henry Kissinger Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent announcement that peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians, which are set to resume on Thursday, “should resolve...
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By Sarah N. Stern and Kyle Shideler After Lebanon’s August 3rd cross-border sniper attack that killed Israel Defense Forces Colonel Dov Harari and injured a second officer, the U.S. Congress, led by Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) ordered a hold placed on $100 million in military aid for the Lebanese...
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