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This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Egyptians appear prepared to end peace treaty with Israel Egypt and Israel Egyptians appear prepared to overturn the three-decade-old peace agreement with Israel, by a margin of 54% to 36%. Those with higher incomes

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Eurozone government debt continues to be much worse than expected Just as today’s US housing data is much worse than expected (see today’s main article), euro zone government debt is much worse than expected,

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Kandahar prison escape a ‘disaster’ for Afghanistan war plans Escaped Taliban Militants (from Taliban website) Taliban Mujahideen militants, “with the help of Allah,” broke into the supposedly secure Kandahar prison on early Monday morning

The prospective Presidential candidate spoke with Hugh Hewitt about President Obama’s foreign policy.

Rep. Peter King’s congressional hearings last month on the radical threat from Islam has been on the receiving end of caterwauling from liberals, Muslim radicals, assorted allies of the religion of peace, including the lame-stream media. But for the all

Today, the Palestinians celebrated “Passover” by once again desecrating the Tomb of the Biblical Joseph, as they have done three times before. A group of Breslov Hassidim’s regular twilight visit to Palestinian controlled Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus came to a

Peter Gubser has written an extraordinary book on Saladin (depicted below), the 12th century warrior-king Middle East leader who was the great Muslim opponent in the Third Crusade. Gubser died just before his exceptional book was published in late 2011.

If only in the interest of intellectual hygiene, it would be refreshing if the Obama administration would stop ascribing moral impetuses to its foreign policy. Today, US forces are engaged in a slowly escalating war on behalf of al-Qaida penetrated

On Friday April 22nd, the Iranian Fars News Agency reported that the Iranian Defense Minister, Ahmad Vahidi, is scheduled to pay a visit to the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad in the near future. A high-ranking delegation, including military and

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Over 90 killed in massive street protests in Syria On Friday, tens of thousands of Syrians poured into the streets after midday prayers in cities across the country and chanted anti-government slogans, “Freedom, freedom,”

Protests are spreading in Syria, where today 15 people have been killed so far as security forces fire live bullets and tear gas at tens of thousands of protesters. Among the dead is an 11 year old child.. Syria, in

A few days ago I met Minister Benny Begin and interviewed him for Giyus.org. In light of the swift turn of events in the Middle East, Minister Begin was able to crystallize the main issues with cutting clarity. From the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Greece’s bond yields surge to over 22%, Portugal’s to 10.6% Bond yields (interest rates) continue to surge to MasterCard levens in a number of euroland countries, furthering the euro currency crisis, and putting the

Just before the Jewish holiday of Passover began this week, Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic posted a list by knee-jerk lefty Steve Sheffey–reliably pro-Israel, but also blindly partisan–hailing all that President Obama has done for Israel in two years in

The riots and demonstrations that consumed Manama, the capital of Bahrain, a few weeks ago have quieted down, but Bahraini officials are still arresting dozens of Shia professionals, including lawyers and doctors. Bahrain citizens who are students at universities and

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Britain and France sending military advisers to Libya Britain and France will send military teams to join the rebels in Benghazi, Libya, to provide advice, logistics and intelligence training. British Foreign Secretary William Hague

Israeli security forces have arrested two men who they say have confessed to carrying out the March 11 massacre of five Israelis in the West Bank settlement of Itamar. Investigators say Ehud and Ruth Fogel and three of their children

The self-immolation on Dec. 17, 2010 of an obscure Tunisian, Mohammed Bouazizi, set off a political firestorm across the Middle East that has yet to subside. His story as first told contained some inaccuracies; so now, with facts and his

Get rid of Hosni Mubarak and let the people of Egypt embrace “democracy.” That’s been the policy line of the Obama Administration. Hope and Change, with an Islamists twist. And so where are we right now? 1. Iran has appointed

The major game changer in the Middle East isn’t in Egypt, or Libya or Bahrain, or Yemen…it’s in Syria, where major protests against the Assad regime continue to explode. In spite of heavy crackdowns by the regime’s security forces, there

The Muslim Brotherhood’s mask is slipping in Egypt. Small “d” democrats there and elsewhere are alarmed by top Brotherhood officials who now aver openly what has been utterly predictable: Once in power they will impose shariah – the totalitarian, supremacist

After one month of atrocities and bloody suppression of protests under his orders, killing over 200 people, President Bashar al-Assad took a more conciliatory tone in a televised speech to the nation on Saturday, according to CNN. Bashar al-Assad in

“U.S. intelligence has found that the Iranian regime has provided Syria with technology and know-how to monitor and censor cell phones, text messaging, and internet traffic among the political opposition inside Syria using the equipment Iran got from Nokia Siemens

For years those that support Israel have felt that the UN’s treatment of Israel is unjustified. Israeli leaders have complained again and again that the UN is biased against the Jewish state, that it judges almost every action of Israel

In the beginning, BHO promised to create a “Palestinian” state within two years of his ascendance to the Oval Office. We’ve already passed that point, and thanks to Obama’s Arabophilia the “peace process” is going in reverse. The Arabs no

US security policy in North Africa and the Middle East faces a dramatic test: will we be able to weave a strong tapestry of help for our allies and take down our enemies or will a new stronger coalition or

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu grandiloquently proclaimed a few days ago that, “If the world is on fire, Turkey is the firefighter. Turkey is assuming the leading role for stability in the Middle East.” Turkey’s President Gül warmly greets Ahmadinejad.

So much has happened in the Middle East over the last few months that it’s been hard to keep up. Freedom is addictive and the domino effect in the Middle East is strong. People have paid dearly for freedom and

A Lebanese-American professor described the deteriorating situation of Christians in the Middle East, now complicated by revolution and Islamism, in a speech Thursday for the Westminster Institute. For a community that has always walked a fine line between politics and

There is a new divide by which we define ourselves: Those who suck in the acrid smell of jihad in the Middle East, pronounce their hallucinations “Arab Spring,” crave more … and those who don’t. Among those of us who

The President spoke recently about the kinetic military action in Libya. He proceeded to use 3,300 words to give a speech that gave – at first glance – no understanding for the use of force. No regard for military might.

President Obama addressed the nation the other night about the “U.S. led operation in Libya.” Many Americans were duped by initial comments presented two weeks ago where the Administration led us to believe that the UN “No Fly Zone” was

When the Hezbollah and Hamas supporting Professor Bassam Frangieh brought Syrian ambassador to America Imad Moustapha to Claremont McKenna College’s campus in 2009, a student in the Arabic program asked, in all seriousness, what America could do to help Syria

In a sea of perpetual turmoil that is the Middle East, the US holds few real cards. Our options are few and our choices even fewer. That is why, much to our criticism, we’ve had friendly relations with dictators and

After decades of stasis, the Middle East is in uproar. With too much going on to focus on a single place, here’s a review of developments in four key countries. Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi in full military splendor. Libya: With most Americans

The fall of the Roman Empire was not a sudden event. The imperial power wielded by Rome decreased gradually over the course of centuries, during which time a steady deterioration was punctuated by repeated barbarian incursions and the sacking of