Posts Tagged: Walid Phares
Trump Campaign Mideast Adviser Walid Phares: President Envisions Resolution to Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Through ‘Moderate Arabs’
A terrorism expert and long-time Fox News analyst who served as the new US leader’s Mideast adviser during the election campaign told the London-based Saudi daily...
Trump: A Lot of My Jewish Friends Say, ‘You Will Never Be Able to Make Deal’ Between Israel, Palestinians
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump told a rally in Indiana on Sunday that “a lot of [his] Jewish friends” tell him he “will never be...
Obama’s Strategic Mistake in Iraq: Abandoning Iran’s Opposition
It has already been established, including in my recently published book The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid, that...
The Khomeinist Dome: Iran’s True Nuclear Intentions
As a reader of Khomeinist global strategies since the early 1980s, and as I have argued over decades in books and articles, Tehran's regime possesses...
U.S. Policy and Avoiding Catastrophes in the Middle East
This month, my book The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid will be in libraries across America and online. This...
The ‘Iran Deal’ is Washington’s Gravest Foreign Policy Mistake
The Obama Administration, in its first and second terms, has committed strategic mistakes in the Middle East that will undermine U.S. national and security interests...
Save South Sudan, or Lose Africa
South Sudan is the newest country in the world, and unfortunately it seems to be on the edge of the newest civil war in the...
The Nile of Democracy Will Flood Egypt’s Jihadists
As soon as the Egyptian military asked President Mohammed Morsi to step down and dismantle his Muslim Brotherhood regime, millions in the streets of Cairo...
U.S. and Syria: Strategic Choices
Two years and three months after the start of the Syrian revolution and its subsequent transformation into a full-fledged civil war, the United States stands...
Senior al-Qaeda Veteran Captured, Successors Roam Planet
Earlier this week, Americans learned about the arrest and extradition to the US of Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a former al-Qaeda spokesman during the attacks on...
Obama Abstract on the Middle East, Admits Jihadi Expansion, Ignores Taliban After 2014
In his State of the Union speech of 2013, President Barack Obama addressed several crises in the Middle East and on the front of fighting...
Mitt Romney’s Cutting-Edge Middle East Strategy
As the US electoral process grinds on and Republican primary debates fold into state primaries and caucuses, candidates' views on national security and...
