A friend recently emailed me a story reporting that Hizbollah militants had been killed in fighting in Syria. "The road to Jerusalem goes through…

My own view remains that the United States and its allies should engage closely with the rebels, identify deserving clients and begin to arm and…

The Arab Spring showed the world that the Palestinians are happier and in better situation than their Arab brothers who fought to liberate them from…

Human rights organizations have criticized the arrest of atheist activist Alber Saber. Saber was originally arrested over claims that he published the…

Unsurprisingly, the media in the Arab world and Iran have continued this theme, and below, are some cartoons from recent days -- a sampling of the…

„Wahrheit ist die Übereinstimmung von Sprache und Wirklichkeit“, hat Max Horkheimer, der Weggefährte Theodor W. Adornos, postuliert. Ist es erheblich,…

In light of this, perhaps we must seriously consider that the Arab world has so internalized its disapproval of the United States over time,…

Die brennenden Fahnen und Bilder Hisbollahs, Irans und Syriens sind zumindest Anlass zur Hoffnung, dass die von Hisbollah exemplarisch vorgeführten…

The risk for the USA and other western powers is that the democratization movement in the Middle East, which they strongly support, may actually…

Al Qaeda’s success in capitalizing on revolutionary change in the Arab world comes despite a lack of broad popular support. It remains a extreme…

„Von Kerbala nach Jerusalem“: Diese berühmte Propagandaaussage der iranischen Führung während des iranisch-irakischen Krieges in den 80er Jahren…

The challenge facing the Israeli intelligence community is identifying whether the combined terrorist campaign abroad is meant to signal Israel that…

Syria today is actually under the Assad regime’s military occupation, and it is being gradually removed by the Free Syrian Army. Assad will have to…

    It is also doubtful whether Egypt is prepared to pay the price of thawing relations with Iran, not only vis-à-vis the Gulf states but also the…

Lüders ist nicht nur Sachbuchautor, sondern schreibt auch Romane, wie seine Homepage verrät. In seinem Buch „Der falsche Krieg“ sind beide Genres…

Unfortunately, the young men and women who are leading the anti-Palestinian Authority campaign in the West Bank do not represent the majority. That is…

Mit viel Witz und klaren Worten hat der israelische Sicherheitsexperte Dan Schueftan seine Einschätzungen zur Lage im Nahen und Mittleren Osten…

Prof. Barry Rubin: We are now at the beginning of Egypt’s involvement, directly or indirectly, in a new wave of terrorist assault on Israel. If the…

In fact, the killing was simply the most egregious installment in a pattern of deliberate sectarian killings (most recently in the town of al-Qubayr…

Neben Saudi Arabien gelten die UAE als einer der größten Förderer jihadistischer und salafitischer Bewegungen weltweit, sie waren eines der ganz…

Say what you will about the Arab Spring. But so far, the most remarkable and potentially disruptive developments of 18 months of uprisings is the…

There is nothing more distasteful than rulers of a people – especially a poor people – who complain about their subjects’ suffering at the same time…

How many tracts, books, documentaries, speeches and doctoral theses have been written and produced about Islamophobia? How many denunciations have…

The compelling moral case for a humanitarian intervention is increasingly being reinforced by sound raisons d’état. Furthermore, military or…

Yet the Brotherhood came to Washington with an agenda of its own: selling itself as a “moderate” organization to a highly skeptical American public.…

This week, after a young rabbi and three children were shot to death at a Jewish school in France, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas…

Armed opposition elements have carried out serious human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today in a public letter to the Syrian National…

Der Chef der SPD spricht im Zusammenhang mit Israel von einem Apartheidsregime, der iranische Präsident Ahmadinedschad leugnet im deutschen Fernsehen…

Ehrenamtliche Helfer aus Europa liefern Wissen und alte Modems an die Aktivisten der arabischen Rebellion. Westliche Firmen verkaufen…

So the numbers tell nothing like the full story. But the numbers – and the Gaza funeral scenes — are flashed around the world as the apparent…