Malley in Wonderland

How Obama’s ‘progressive’ foreign policy vision—to backpedal away from the Middle East, fast, while kicking our former allies in the region to the curb—became consensus in D.C.

By Tony Badran · November 18, 2019

Middle East

The Pax Americana Is Dead. Welcome to the Age of the Godfathers.

The post-American Middle East being born in Syria is an irretrievably changed land of sectarianism and new foreign hegemony

By Eyal Zisser · March 21, 2016

Middle East

Like Advil for Cancer

Jewish and Arab Israelis are working together to aid Syria’s refugees. Does it matter?

By Amir Tibon · March 2, 2016

United States

The Ambassador From Hell?

America’s Moral Collapse in Syria: Samantha Power wrote the book on how the U.S. government ignores and legitimates genocides. Or was it a handbook?

By Lee Smith · February 17, 2016

Middle East

The ‘Washington Post’ Pulls Out of Iran, While the ‘New York Times’ Cashes In

Just as reporter Jason Rezaian was freed from two years in captivity, the paper of record was selling luxury tours to Tehran. Why?

By Lee Smith · February 5, 2016

Middle East

America Makes a U-Turn in the Middle East

Obama’s long game is a complete restructuring of the balance of power in the region—but with what results?

By Tony Badran · February 4, 2016

Middle East

So, What Went Wrong With the Arab Spring?

Post-Qaddafi Libya was supposed to be something other than the chaos it has become

By Ann Marlowe · May 18, 2015

Middle East

Honey, I Shrunk the Jews!

Why did Obama send a lowly vice-presidential adviser to inform American Jewish leadership about his Iran deal?

By Lee Smith · April 8, 2015

United States

The Liberal American Jewish Psyche in Crisis

Can Zionism and U.S. liberalism coexist under Netanyahu?

By Nathan Perl-Rosenthal · April 2, 2015

Middle East

Obama’s Harvest of Violence

A pact with Iran sends a clear message to Arab liberals: No one will help you

By Hanin Ghaddar · March 24, 2015

Middle East

How Crusaders Slaughtered the Jews of Mainz

And why Obama was only partly right in comparing Christians to ISIS

By Anne Roiphe · March 16, 2015

United States

Bibi’s America Problem, and Ours

The difference between Big America and Small America, and between Obama and Netanyahu

By Lee Smith · March 5, 2015

Middle East

The Obama-Bibi Split Is About Policy, Not Protocol—And It May Be Permanent

Why the dust-up about Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech to a joint meeting of Congress may outlast the leader

By Matthew Duss · February 26, 2015

United States

The White House Freak-Out

Obama is taking out the failure of his Iran policy on its opponents

By Lee Smith · February 18, 2015

Middle East

Nuclear Dreams: Iran Now Controls Four Arab Capitals, Plus Washington, D.C.

What the burning of a Jordanian pilot reveals about Obama’s flawed Middle East game

By Lee Smith · February 5, 2015

World

Barack Obama’s Turkish Fruitcake

President Erdogan builds an opulent palace for himself, part of a 20-year mess that is American Middle East policy

By Lee Smith · December 4, 2014

Middle East

The Godfather’s Guide to the Middle East

Everything you need to know about world turmoil today—from Obama to Assad to ISIS—is in the ethos of the Corleone family

By Lee Smith · September 24, 2014

United States

Zionism for Refugees

With Central American children at our borders, the United States, and the West, cannot just criticize Israel

By Mark Oppenheimer · August 27, 2014

World

The Muslim Right and the Anglo-American Left: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

An excerpt from ‘Double Bind’ questions the logic of ‘One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’

By Meredith Tax · August 5, 2014

Middle East

Dawn of the Planet of Qasem Suleimani

In Hollywood’s twisted view of hardliners, lessons for our generals, diplomats, and politicians

By Lee Smith · July 16, 2014

Middle East

Why Obama, Kerry, Abbas, Hamas, BDS, and Hezbollah Will All Go Poof!

Bad newspaper headlines aside, it’s been a pretty good century for the Zionists

By Edward N. Luttwak · July 10, 2014

Middle East

America Is the Arsonist of the Middle East

John Kerry’s failed peace negotiations set off the spiral of violence between Israel and the Palestinians

By Lee Smith · July 8, 2014

Middle East

Obama Thinks Iran Can Rescue American Interests in the Middle East: He’s Wrong

The United States sees an ally in a regime that is too predatory—and too weak—to be a reliable foreign-policy partner

By Lee Smith · June 18, 2014

Middle East

Will Bibi’s Chinese Choo-Choo Train Save Israel and Transform the Middle East?

A bold new freight railway bypassing the Suez Canal may annoy Egypt and the United States, but that’s not the goal

By Jon Emont · June 16, 2014

Middle East

Q&A: Gen. Uzi Dayan

Israel’s lead security negotiator talks about the end of Oslo and the future of annexation

By David Samuels · June 12, 2014

Middle East

News Flash: American Taxpayers Now Paying the Salaries of Palestinian Terrorists

What a unity government bringing together Hamas with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party means

By Lee Smith · June 3, 2014

Visual Art & Design

We Gave Iran an Antique as a Token of Goodwill. Only Problem? It’s Fake.

The ‘ancient’ griffin—given by the U.S. to Iranian President Rouhani—probably doesn’t date back to earlier than 1999

By Alex Joffe · October 10, 2013

Visual Art & Design

Iraqi Jewish Treasures Displayed in D.C. Before Being Shipped Back to … Iraq

In the chaos of the 2003 war, remnants of a once-thriving Jewish past were saved (or stolen?) by America. Where do they belong?

By Lisa Leff · October 7, 2013

Middle East

Did Vladimir Putin Bait a Trap for the United States in Damascus?

Why the Russian president has every reason to cross Barack Obama’s “red line” on Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East

By David Samuels · September 3, 2013

World

Russia’s Middle-East End Game, at the Hands of the Post-Soviet Grandmaster

Why Putin believes U.S. policies in the Middle East since the Arab Spring have been misguided, unprincipled, and dangerous

By Dmitri Trenin · August 1, 2013