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Facebook Fatwa: Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam and Social Media
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies has released the first-ever study of what radical Saudi Wahhabists are preaching to their followers about the United States and non-Muslims on social media sites.
Learn MoreAnalysis & Commentary - Emanuele Ottolenghi
An Unholy Alliance
Germany appeared over the past several months to have finally fallen in line behind European Union efforts to stiffen economic sanctions against Iran. But in late October a group of German parliamentarians dealt a blow... more...
Sanctions On Iran: How Washington Can End The Game Of ‘Catch Me If You Can’
Since the European Union announced a new round of sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program last October, it has enacted new measures and an impressive group of companies to its blacklist. more...
Turks, Arabs and Jews: The Middle East in Crisis
Standing outside Istanbul's Blue Mosque on a Friday morning as the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer, curious tourists furtively peek through the windows in the hope of catching a glimpse of the beautiful... more...
Iran: Nuclear Moment of Truth Nears
In September, when Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, famously showed the United Nations General Assembly a crude picture of a bomb to highlight Iran’s proximity to nuclear weapons... more...
Is Iran Resorting To An Insurance Scam To Keep Oil Exports Going?
P&I for oil tankers covers pollution and spillage, and international maritime authorities require Very Large Crude Carriers — the largest class of tankers on the oceans — to carry mandatory third-party... more...
Revealed: Why Israel Delayed D-Day on Iran
When Benjamin Netanyahu stood up at the United Nations General Assembly last September with a cartoonish drawing of a bomb designed to show how close Iran was getting nuclear weapons, close... more...
Israel’s Not So Empty Threats
In September 2010, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote a brilliant feature in the Atlantic in which he forecast Israel's "point of no return" on Iran — the article's title. Goldberg had had extensive background... more...
Israel Worries That America Has Lost Its Way on Middle East Understanding
It is no mystery that U.S. President, Barack Obama, and the serving Israeli Prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, are not each other’s first choices for their respective jobs. Washington and Jerusalem... more...
Confronting Islamic Intimidation
In 1988, The Last Temptation of Christ, the movie by Martin Scorsese, based on a novel by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, caused a storm of protests. Many Christian groups found it... more...
Is the Press More Interested in Royal Breasts Than Defending Freedom?
It came as no surprise that members of the State Department's Camel Corps felt it necessary to condemn the movie The Innocence of Muslims even as a mob of film critics lay siege to a US embassy. more...
Fatal Arab Spring
There is no simple Arab Spring. What’s unfolding is a new age of the world, and amid the fracturing of the old order in the Middle East and North Africa, there is a bloody struggle taking... more...
Waiting for the US on Iran is Like Russian Roulette
It is no mystery that US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are not each other’s first choices for their respective jobs. Washington and Jerusalem have... more...
A Bad Joke: The Sad Reality of Jews in Europe
On Sunday, 27 countries across Europe will celebrate the annual European Day of Jewish Culture 2012. What begun in 1996, near Strasbourg, France, as a local effort to open abandoned... more...
Nostra Culpa
The lazy days of August were overshadowed by the latest round of speculation on whether Israel will attack Iran — an ongoing guessing game that has produced ponderous studies on the pros... more...
Wake Up Call for Swedish Social Democrats: Julian Assange is Friendly with Dictators!
This is what you get from reading Karin Olsson's impassioned defense of her country's democratic standards in last week's Guardian: Olsson, alongside many Swedes... more...
Why Crunch Time is Coming for Israel and Iran
In recent months, expectations of a coming Israeli pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear installations have become increasingly hyped in the media and the public domain. more...
Is Israel Really Preparing for an Attack on Iran?
The question of whether Israel is on the brink of a strike against Iran periodically resurfaces as the Persian country’s march to a nuclear weapon continues unabated and Israeli leaders indicate... more...
Toppling Iran’s Unsteady Regime
Ordinary Iranians are having to tighten their belts since the European Union's oil embargo came into force on July 1. The decades of economic mismanagement by Iran's authoritarian leaders have culminated in five years... more...
Are Iranian Sanctions Working?
Despite all evidence that sanctions are hurting Iran's economy, four rounds of nuclear talks failed to prove that Iran's regime is now more malleable to a compromise. more...
UN Places Iran on Arms-Control Panel
As things go in the arms trade, there are not many countries in the world that misbehave more than Iran. The country is under a UN-imposed arms embargo — it cannot buy and it should not sell weapons. more...