How to make Egypt safe for democracy
Hosni Mubarak's resignation as president of Egypt, after thirty years of authoritarian rule, is a major seismic event in the...
Lebanon
Playing Israel’s good hand
On Wednesday night, Israelis received our first taste of the new Middle East with the missile strikes on Beersheba. Iran's...
Obama’s devastatingly mixed signals
For better or worse, each passing day the Middle East is becoming more unstable. Regimes that have clung to power...
Douglas Murray on Democracy & Dangers in Egypt
HERZLIYA, ISRAEL– I’m at the 11th annual conference on Israel’s national security at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzlyia, a...
Yoav Galant’s depressing defeat
As the threats against Israel mount from all directions, the job of the IDF Chief of General Staff is becoming...
Israel and Arab Democracy
Over the past week, Israel has been criticized for being insufficiently supportive of democratic change in Egypt. While Prime Minister...
Clueless in Washington
The Egyptian multitudes on the streets of Cairo are a stunning sight. With their banners calling for freedom and an...
Exposing the puppet masters
Israel is today in the throes of a powerful backlash against the Knesset's decision last week to establish a parliamentary...
Sudanese crossroads
On Sunday, the southern Sudanese began voting on a referendum to secede from the Republic of Sudan and establish their...
The Israeli Left’s loser message
The Israeli Left was once an optimistic place. But that is no longer the case. It once promised peace and...
Rocking Obama’s world
Crises are exploding throughout the world. And the leader of the free world is making things worse. On the Korean peninsula,...
The Age of Dissimulation
Years from now, when historians seek an overarching concept to define our times, they could do worse than refer to...
The Scott Brown Precedent and Israel
On Tuesday, US voters are set to repudiate US President Barack Obama's agenda for their country. Unfortunately, based on his...
Obama’s not-so-hidden agenda
Earlier this year, President Obama drove U.S.-Israeli relations - to use one of President Obama's oft-employed analogies - into a...
Ahmadinejad’s target audience
By Iranian and Hizbullah accounts, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon next week will be a splendid affair. The...
The strategic lessons of Stuxnet
There's a new cyber-weapon on the block. And it's a doozy. Stuxnet, a malicious software, or malware, program was apparently...