Jordan’s public opinion, political leadership and regional and international dynamics today offer very useful insights into the current condition of the Arab world, and should be studied carefully by anyone interested in how things operate in the region and wondering where the Middle East may be heading. The immediate mass anger among Jordanians to the… اقرأ المزيد
The contrast this week between political decisions by the governments in Tunisia, Bahrain and Egypt capture vividly the two available pathways for Arab national development. For the first time ever in modern Arab history, Arab citizens can witness how life, politics and citizenship operate in alternative systems based, respectively, on the rule of law and… اقرأ المزيد
The predictability of the sequence of events between Israel and Hezbollah in the last two weeks played out like clockwork. While there are some unknown motivating factors about the Israeli air attack in the Golan Heights on Jan. 18 that killed six Hezbollah men and an Iranian general, there was no such imprecision about the… اقرأ المزيد
The recent terror attacks in Paris and the killing or arrest of suspected terrorists in Belgium have clarified the dangerous reality of thousands of European radicals fighting with ISIS in Syria-Iraq and returning to carry out attacks in their home countries. Europe may be repeating the same mistakes that former U.S. President George W. Bush… اقرأ المزيد
The Israeli attack Sunday in the Syrian Golan Heights that killed Hezbollah and Iranian officials has understandably generated much speculation primarily about whether, when and how Hezbollah will retaliate against Israeli targets. The easy answer is that, of course Hezbollah will respond in some manner that it deems appropriate, but this is really not the… اقرأ المزيد
Watch out, the Quartet is waking up and threatens to make a move. We should have mixed feelings about the news that the group – including the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia – which aims to shepherd Palestinian-Israeli negotiations toward a peace accord will convene soon to revive diplomatic efforts… اقرأ المزيد