Jihadist at a Crossroads
Syria’s new leader will have to balance his Islamist beliefs with the more pressing tasks of state-building and economic development.
Sean Welsh
· 11 min read
Middle East
A collection of 49 posts
Syrian Torture, Then and Now
The atrocities committed by the Assad regime were no secret—but they were met with Western inaction.
Susie Linfield
· 7 min read
Syria and the Changing Global Calculus
Iran and Russia have suffered serious setbacks over the past year, but grave dangers remain.
Joshua Muravchik
· 19 min read
The Weak Horse
Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
The Return of the Black Flags
The conditions that first produced ISIS have been left to fester as part of a wider malign neglect toward the Muslim Middle East in the aftermath of the Iraq war.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
A Measure of Justice in Beirut
The decapitation of Lebanese Hezbollah is a cause for celebration well beyond the borders of Israel.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
The Feckless Lebanese State
American money and goodwill cannot fix a state when its own people refuse to make the sacrifices necessary to establish and defend effective, efficient, and responsible governance.
Eric Bordenkircher
· 8 min read
The Quincy Institute’s Middle East Fantasies
The positions adopted by the think tank’s scholars during the war in Gaza are illustrative of its overall Middle East agenda: appease Iran and demonise Israel.
Leon Hadar
· 15 min read
The Politicisation of International Justice
A dissection of the ICC’s warrant application reveals that obvious liberties have been taken with the truth.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 11 min read
The Bell 212 Tolls for Tehran
We should celebrate the death of the Butcher of Tehran, but Iran’s future remains fraught with uncertainty.
Paul Monk
· 11 min read
Dan Schueftan on the Palestine-Israel Conflict
Pamela Paresky interviews the outspoken Israeli academic.
Pamela Paresky, Dan Schueftan
· 34 min read
Israel’s Grim Future: Attrition on All Fronts
The Jewish state is facing security threats from groups based in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Yemen—all of them supported by Iran.
Benny Morris
· 11 min read
An End to the Mirage
Republicans and Democrats have both learned the wrong lessons from Iraq.
Brian Stewart
· 9 min read
You Can Be Pro-Palestinian or Pro-Hamas. You Can't Be Both.
Make no mistake: dead Israelis are good for Hamas, but dead Palestinians are even better.
Ali A. Rizvi
· 8 min read
What Comes Next For Israel?
Today's political and military leaders never imagined that the Hamas was capable of launching a successful invasion of Israel's borderlands.
Benny Morris
· 9 min read