No, Israel is about to Attack Iran Now, Here’s Why
By Prof. Barry Rubin | 23 July 2010 How do you know someone has no idea what they're talking about? Answer: They predict that Israel is about to attack Iran. From the...
The Silent Palestinian Refugee Crisis
By Taylor Long, Alistair Harris | 17 July 2010 In 2007, the jihadi group Fatah al-Islam infiltrated the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in north Lebanon, engaging the Lebanese army in...
While No One’s Looking, the Palestinians Are Building a State
By Hussein Ibish | 16 June 2010 In the world of Palestinian politics, the recent weeks have been a study in contrasts. The international media has trained its focus off the shores...
The World Must Do More For Middle East Peace
By Walter Russell Mead | 14 June 2010 Both the Israelis and the Palestinians have a lot to answer for in their 100-year-plus conflict over some of the most miserable and hardscrabble...
Obama Meets Abbas: And Shows He Understands Neither Hamas Nor Israel, Neither the Middle East Nor Islamism
By Barry Rubin | 09 June 2010 President Barack Obama has announced an additional $400 million in aid for housing, school construction and business development in Gaza and West Bank in his meeting...
Israel’s fatal mistake
By Omer Celik | 08 June 2010 The Israeli attack on an international aid flotilla to Gaza on May 31, which resulted in the killing of nine peace activists, is a turning...
What The Israeli Raid Is Really About: Illusions of Neo-zionism and Lingering Neo-conservatism*
By Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bulent Gokay** | 02 June 2010 Israel sparked an outcry across the world and Turkey, when Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ship accompanying eight other vessels carrying 10,000 tonnes...
The Demise of Arab Nationalism in Iraq and Its Possible Alternatives
By Rahman Dag | 01 June 2010 Contemporary Middle Eastern states have not yet reached to the full level of stability in terms of domestic and foreign issues after the demise of...
A Brief Analysis over the Historical Factors That Affect Today’s Iraq
By Tamer Kasikci | 01 June 2010 After the invasion of US-led forces Iraq became the focus of the international relations. Many researchers began to write about the invasion and its aftermath....
Deadly Israeli Raid on Aid Fleet
Al Jazeera | 31 May 2010 Israeli commandos have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships off the coast of the Gaza Strip, killing up to 19 people on board. Dozens of others...
The Fear of a Free Kurdistan in the Middle East of the 21st Century
Dr. Ayla Gol | 01 June 2010 Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad and the de facto existence of Iraqi Kurdistan in northern Iraq, Ankara’s fear of the disintegration of the Turkish...
Iran Nuclear Deal Exposing the Shifting Distribution of Power
By Prof. Bulent Gokay | 24 May 2010 The 2008 report of the US National Intelligence Council - which supports the Director of National Intelligence and is the centre for long-range...
Multidimensional Accounts Between Resistance and Rebellion: An Analysis on Yemen
By M. Huseyin Mercan | 01 April 2010 The Yemeni public have already witnessed a dangerous conflict on their own territory. The conflict was intensified by the Husi rebellion and...
The Process of Memory and Forgetting as The Significant Steps of Nationalism: Iran as Case Study
By Tayfun Ustun | 01 April 2010 The subject of nation and nationalism is one of the highly controversial issues and cannot be answered by adopting a single perspective in...
US-Israel: The Big Fight Within Obama Administration — Ross v. Mitchell, NSC v. State Department
By Prof. Scott Lucas | 30 March 2010 Laura Rozen of Politico returns to top inside reporter form with this piece on the division over Israel policy within the Obama Administration,...