Joseph Puder
ARTICLES BY: Joseph Puder

The Time Is Ripe for Kurdish Independence
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) will hold a referendum on independence on September 25, 2017. By all accounts, the majority of Iraqi Kurds under the...

The Phenomenon of Jewish Self-Hatred
Jews have always had to endure antisemitism, which has made us particularly defensive and guarded in the face of persecution and discrimination. Throughout history, some Jews...

The US Should Arm the Kurds, Not the Shiite Militias, in Iraq
The Obama administration has provided the Iraqi army with military hardware worth billions of dollars. Iraq's main power brokers are Iraqi Shiite militias, who are...

Why Iraq Must be Divided Into Three States
President Obama's assertion during the 2012 election campaign that Al-Qaeda had been "decimated" has come back to haunt him. In a campaign speech in Green...

Rearranging the Middle East
British perfidy and French collusion have created a Middle East that has been unstable since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the...