Posts Tagged: democracy
What Is Really Needed for Democracy in the Arab World
Ever since 9/11, Western leaders have pushed for democratization of the Arab world. Almost 20 years down the road, that push has had catastrophic results: With...
Freedom House Sadly Joins the Anti-Israel Crowd
Freedom House had been one of the remaining, objective arbiters of which countries are free and which are not. A few years ago, I had shown that there...
Kerry Visits Middle East in Hopes of Reassuring Allies
Wall Street Journal - Secretary of State ...
Democracy Isn’t Easy
What is currently happening in Egypt should not come as a surprise to anyone who has even cursory knowledge of the Arab world from historical,...
Tony Blair Says Egypt Has ‘No Future’ as Islamic State
Tony Blair believes that Egypt has "no future as an Islamic state that aspires to be part of a regional caliphate." Writing for Project Syndicate,...
The Horrors of North Korea Require Us to Act
Surprised that North Korea's youthful leader, Kim Jung-un reportedly distributed copies of Mein Kampf as birthday presents to his country's elite? Don't be. For decades, North Korea...
The Hagelian Dialectic
The Chuck Hagel trial balloon has been aloft for weeks now, not to burst or land - since its lofting was never officially acknowledged -...
Backstabbing Democracy: A Nuclear Iran and the Israeli Media
August in Israel is usually full of hot air, and this one is no exception. The country is sweating under the relentless summer sun, and...
Netanyahu Invokes Thomas Jefferson in 4th of July Message to America (VIDEO)
Speaking of his own affection for the words of Thomas Jefferson, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a message to the United States on Tuesday,...
Democracy Takes Time, Even in the Middle East
Last week's Wall Street Journal ran a sobering piece by Bret Stephens about the disappointing results of democratic elections in Egypt the previous weekend. It's...
Newt Gingrich – Democracy’s Blessing or Curse?
In one fell swoop Newt Gingrich focused the world's attention on all of the ignorance that has plagued Israel through more than 30 years of...
Keystone Influence: Syria’s Arab Spring and the Race for Regional Hegemony
The Arab Spring is changing the political and strategic map of the Middle East as we know it in ways that will persist for...
Friendless In The Middle East
The Arab upheavals of 2011 have inspired wildly inconsistent Western responses. How, for example, can one justify abiding the suppression of dissidents in Bahrain while...
Just Yesterday In Tunis
The Arab spring is slowly turning into a nefarious malediction. Just yesterday in Tunis, the leader of the "moderate" Islamic party Hennada, Rached Ghannouchi, who happened...
