There was a now famous retort by Winston Churchill to Neville Chamberlain when the latter, as prime minister, allowed Hitler to take Czechoslovakia in order to attain some semblance of peace. "You were given the choice between... 
Exactly 237 years ago today, on March 28, 1786, two of America's founding fathers documented the United States' first exposure to Islamic jihad in an important letter to Congress. One year earlier, in 1785, Muslim pirates from... 
In higher education institutions in the United States, there is a fear of subjecting Islam to criticism. This fear is particularly manifest in the work of liberal professors, who are afraid of being accused of "Orientalism" or... 
Yet another Turkish national and his company were sanctioned last week by US authorities for violating sanctions on Iran, adding to a growing list of individuals and entities that have in the last decade used Turkish territory to... 
"The Iranian method ... is to insert a kind of deep state, controlled from Tehran, within the official structures of the targeted state. At a certain point, it becomes difficult to locate exactly where the Iranian project begins and the official state ends." From Jonathan Spyer. 
The demonstrations against judicial reform in Israel have major implications for the Jewish state's national security. Since the return of the Jewish people to their ancestral and indigenous homeland, the overwhelming majority of... 
Jonathan Spyer: Spurred by "internal disunity and strife in Israel," Iran-backed Hezbollah "is seeking to assist, capitalize on and extend the scope of [Palestinian] violence" against the Jewish state. 
Compare the response of two countries, one Middle Eastern, the other European. In Turkey, twin earthquakes on February 6 took more than 50,000 lives, even though there was warning about the impending earthquake. In Greece, a...
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