Adel Guindy: Islamism & the Facade of Egyptian Democracy
Adel Guindy testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the House of Representatives. Reps. Frank Wolf and James...
Turkey
An ally no more
With vote tallies in for Egypt's first round of parliamentary elections in it is abundantly clear that Egypt is on...
A predictable fiasco
The Egyptian elections have resulted in a rout for the throngs whose springtime hopes for freedom are now facing the...
The Isolationist delusion
I had an unsettling flashback last week listening to two of the Republican presidential candidates talk about foreign policy. Representative...
Calling things by their proper names
Next month, America's long campaign in Iraq will come to an end with the departure of the last US forces...
Who lost the world? The unraveling of the globe under Obama’s watch
Conventional wisdom has it that the 2012 election will be all about the dismal economy, unemployment and the soaring deficit. ...
The forgotten Christians of the East
On Sunday night, Egyptian Copts staged what was supposed to be a peaceful vigil at Egypt's state television headquarters in...
Turkey’s house of cards
To the naked eye, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be moving from strength to strength. Erdogan was welcomed...
A prayer for 5772
Upon his return to Ramallah from New York, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was greeted by a crowd of several...
Lessons from the embassy takeover
We are able to consider the lessons of the weekend's mob assault on the Israeli embassy in Cairo because the...
A tale of two Obamas
Barack Obama was even more prominently featured in the news on Sunday than is usual for a President of the...
The war America fights
Ten years ago, in the shadow of the crater at Ground Zero, the smoldering Pentagon and a field of honor...
Wilders: “We have started the roll-back operation. We have sent a message to the ideologues of Islam: Dont tread on us!”
On September 3 Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, addressed an electrified crowd of hundreds of...
Ankara’s chosen scapegoat
Monday morning Turkey took its anti-Israel campaign to a new level. Beyond downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel; beyond suspending military...
The perils of a remilitarized Sinai
Will the Egyptian military be permitted to remilitarize the Sinai? Since Palestinian and Egyptian terrorists crossed into Israel from Sinai...
Obama’s only policy
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has explained repeatedly over the years that Israel has no Palestinian partner to negotiate with. So...