Turkey Mania: “Jerusalem is Muslim”
Whether Jerusalem stands as Israel’s united capital or not, in the Middle East it will simply be bloody business as usual.
Policy Speeches vs Policy
President Donald Trump is scheduled to release a new US national security strategy on Monday.
Jerusalem Deals in Reality
The neighborhood where I live, on the seam line dividing Jew and Arab in Jerusalem, can be a useful place to take the temperature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Turkey: Laundering Billions for Iran
In the text above replace the words “in the Arab world” with “Turkey,” and delete the word “Iran” in the preceding line, and one will get a short paragraph “Explaining Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: A Psychological Profile.”
Erdogan: No Moderate Islam
The Trump administration has two options: It can either deal with the Turkey it has or the Turkey it wished it had.
Europe’s Migrant Crisis: Millions Still to Come
“African exodus of biblical proportions impossible to stop”
Erdogan’s Interesting New Top Mayors
Istanbul’s new mayor had been one of the lawyers defending Islamist arsonists in what is known as the “Sivas case”.
Erdoğan’s Kurdish Gambit
As he campaigns ahead of the 2019 election, Erdoğan will have to find a miracle equilibrium: how to win Kurdish votes without losing nationalist Turkish votes?
Portents of Quagmires in Syria
Putin, Rouhani, and Erdogan are right that, as of now, they are the victors in Syria. But let us not empower them by believing them invincible.
Why Palestinian Delusions Persist
Palestinian delusion results, then, from a toxic mix of Islamic doctrine, international succor, and Israeli timidity.
