The Peace Process is in Jeopardy? I Wonder Why!
By Barry Rubin, January 2009.
Whatever became of reality, at least in analyzing the Middle East? Consider the following: "With every image of the dead in Gaza inflaming people across the Arab world, Egyptian and Jordania [more]


If You Love The Palestinians, You Should Hate Hamas
By Barry Rubin, January 2009.
Let's say that you love the Palestinians, are sympathetic to Arabs, and are indifferent to Israel. Presumably, you would favor an immediate ceasefire to stop Palestinian suffering. [more]


Ending The Gaza War: Choices, Not Solutions
By Barry Rubin, January 2009.
Last December, Hamas unilaterally ended its ceasefire with Israel and escalated the kind of cross-border attacks continually attempted even during the ceasefire. [more]


The Gaza War: A Small Part of The Nationalist-Islamist Conflict
By Barry Rubin, January 2009.
In decades to come, when the Middle East's history for this era is written, the current war in Gaza will be deemed a skirmish in the great Arab-Persian; Sunni-Shia; Arab nationalist-Islamist [more]


Israel's International Support: A Glass Eight-Tenths Full
By Barry Rubin, January 2009.
It's easy to be misled by elements of Western media and academia that seem to prefer terrorists and radical Islamists to Israel. A diplomatic balance sheet from Israel's standpoint is quite [more]


On the Ground in Gaza
By Barry Rubin, January 2009.
Israel didn't want to attack the Gaza Strip from the ground or from the air. Hamas, which had long broken the ceasefire, canceled it altogether. Then it began large-scale attacks on Israel. [more]


Islamism in Sudan
By Harvey Glickman and Emma Rodman

Islamism in Sudan reflects both modern and older cultural-historical movements in Sudanese life. Similar to Islamist movements in the Middle East, it is distinguished by the sophisticated... [more]


Forward to the Past: The Fall and Rise of the 'One-State Solution
By Jonathan Spyer

Deeply embedded in Palestinian nationalism is the notion that Israeli Jewish identity is analogous to that of communities born of European colonialism, which are not seen as... [more]


Iran's Foreign Policy and Drive Toward Nuclear Weapons
Panel Discussion

On May 22, 2008, the U.S. Department of State's International Information Programs in Washington D.C., the Public Affairs Office at the U.S. Embassy in Israel, and... [more]


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The Truth About Syria
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May 27, 2008)

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The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East

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The Israel-Arab Reader

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