Oman: a Peaceful Oasis in a Flaming region
In a fractious, unstable region rife with conflicts, one country appears to be unscathed. It is telling that Oman emerged not only intact from the ramifications of the Arab Spring, but also shied away from the tense polarisation that has hijacked [...]
Rivalry Between Saudi Arabia and Iran Not About the Victim but the Aggressor
By Hakim Khatib
Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have been increasing recently. Although the narrative developed to describe the execution of a Saudi Shiite cleric, Nimr Al-Nimr, as a sectarian dimension of the Kingdom’s policies towards [...]
What is the Syrian War about?
By Hakim Khatib
After five years of the Syrian war, we can recognize “four” conflicting parties on the ground – Assad, ISIS, rebel groups and the Kurds. Each one of these conflicting parties has regional and international [...]
Obama’s Virtual War on Israel
By Alan Caruba.
This is hardly the best week to demonstrate his intense hatred of Israel, but since he has devoted 18 months to a fruitless and foolish negotiation with Iran, one can understand why Barack Hussein [...]
Is Obama Anti-Semitic?
By Alan Caruba.
President Obama made no secret of his displeasure that Benjamin Netanyahu was reelected to be Israel’s Prime Minister. Only David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister and one of the nation’s [...]
Obama Negotiates Israel’s Destruction
By Alan Caruba
The strangest thing about Obama’s efforts to achieve friendly relations with Iran, something he has tried to do since he first took office in 2009, is that Iran has made it abundantly clear since its Islamic revolution in 1979 [...]
Making Predictions: 2015 Edition
By Alan Caruba.
If there is one thing pundits like to do it is to make predictions. If they turn out to be right you can always look back and quote them as proof of your prescience and if they are not, you can always ignore [...]
Obama’s Obsession with Iran
By Alan Caruba.
On November 4, 1979 as part of the Iranian revolution that overthrew the Shah, a group of “students” seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took sixty of our diplomats hostage. They held them for 444 days until [...]
Obama’s Revenge
By Alan Caruba
The Democratic Party that supported President Obama’s agenda for the past six years was dramatically rejected in the midterm elections and the message for the new Republican-controlled Senate and House is to aggressively take [...]
The Difference Between the Real World and Obama’s
By Alan Caruba
I keep wondering what it must have been like to be a young student at West Point listening to their Commander in Chief’s platitudes and ignorance wash over them. West Point is where our nation’s future leaders in war receive [...]
The United Nations Cesspool
By Alan Caruba.
I don’t write much about the United Nations because it is everything that it is not supposed to be. It’s supposed to be devoted to human rights and other noble and global aspirations. Instead it is a [...]
The Prospect of World War Three
By Alan Caruba.
Let me begin by saying that the deal the U.S. struck with Iran on November 24 is so criminally stupid that mobs with torches and pitchforks should be surrounding the White House and Department of State demanding that the [...]
Rethinking the Present Unipolar System
By Jeong Lee.
I’ll be up front with you. As much as I aspire one day to become one, I am not a foreign policy maven. In fact, as a schoolteacher, I spend most of my days teaching in the classroom, or grading assignments in the teachers’ [...]
Tehran, the Terror Capitol of the World
By Alan Caruba.
In ancient times the expression was “All roads lead to Rome.” An impressive network of roads had been built to maintain the Roman Empire, but it eventually broke apart and failed. These days all roads lead to Tehran, the [...]
Israel Will Defend Itself
By Alan Caruba.
www.israelnationalnews.com, 11/11/12
Minister: We’ll Hit Them Till They Say ‘Enough’
Min. Moshe Yaalon says “We will put an end to this. We will not maintain restraint.”
Minister Yaalon said Sunday [...]
The red lines of 1914 and 2012 – Historic parallels leading to a new global disaster?
By Oliver Krumme.
It has been nearly 100 years since World War I started in Europe after the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Este Franz-Ferdinand and his wife in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, on 28July 1914. In a very recent [...]
Picture from Genocide of Muslims or Tsunami?
By Nima Ch.
Two Iranian websites have (re)published heart breaking pictures of supposedly Muslim genocide in Burmese. I stress that this shall only show how the propaganda machines of Islamic Republic of Iran are working. It has nothing to do [...]
Unpopular Sanctions’ Effect on a Pro-American Country
By Nima Ch.
Are sanctions breaking the backs of the poor? … Or is it the mismanagements of Iran’s government? And … wasn’t it the Iranian foreign policy which caused the west to impose sanctions against Iran? Yes, undoubtedly [...]